Finding myself at a conference with a bunch of people doing humanities research in the Baltic States and having to explain that there's no way my work will pay for me to go to Tartu next year to hang out with them again.
Hester Pangs
It's so wild reading posts from colleagues in Europe where science continues to be funded and social science, in particular, continues to thrive and be celebrated. Meanwhile, here in America we're watching our research pipelines dry up & NIH & NSF are just... not issuing grants. What a weird time.
