"What’s going on is nothing short of a generational change in how the U.S. organizes its scientific enterprise." In the new issue, @jetjocko.bsky.social shows how it came to this. www.scientificamerican.com/article/amer...
Americans are becoming more reactionary:
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It seems overnight the White House has been replaced by a Monster Energy Drink branded UFC cage
gotta be the best scam text I’ve received this year
Great @deborahb.bsky.social piece on what the past tells us about the current science-policy nightmare. "Maybe it could be seen as an opportunity,” one scientist tells her. "It’s like the opportunity you have to build a better house when yours burns down.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
To be painfully sincere for just a moment: this is still so surreal, and means the world to me in a very hard year. Also, the whole team that put this issue together was really wonderful. ❤️ Most importantly, I got to hear the world's largest Van de Graaff generator play the Ghostbusters theme 🎸
Very proud of this story, including the way it puts the ccurrent defunding of science into a fascinating (to me) historic perspective. And I'd like to thank both the scientists and the historians who made this smart. And who stood up!
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MAVEN was the first mission designed to study the atmosphere of Mars. It also became a vital node of NASA’s communications network at the Red Planet
it's hard to be a young scientist in the US rn. funding is uncertain, evidence is ignored and good researchers are leaving. but, as @deborahb.bsky.social writes for @sciam.bsky.social, history is cyclical. we can learn from the past. #SciAmYoungScientists www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
It’s a complicated time to be a young scientist in America. Lessons from history can tell us what the future might hold
