🧵
It’s not so much an instant decapitation of American science as it’s a slow but steady asphyxiation.
But the effect is the same.
We’re planting the seeds of doubt in the next generation of scientists that maybe this is not what they should sign up for.
Harmit Singh Malik
A recently finished undergraduate (with lots of research time in my lab) applied for 60 research tech jobs with no luck... And this week I talked to an undergrad (son of a family friend) looking unsuccessfully for summer research in evolutionary genetics - AS A VOLUNTEER.
(thread...)
