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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Since the NIH funding freeze in Jan 2025 that was so devastating to academic research labs in the US, we have lost 10,000 PhD candidates. That’s 10,000 of the brightest and smartest young researchers in the world just gone. That single move destroyed STEM research in the US that we will never recover from.

    For those that think, no we’ll easily recover as we just won’t freeze funding in the future: no young scientist will come to the US now or in the future to enter a PhD program because of the always present threat that we will elect another troglodyte. These research labs have grant money that cannot be paused even for a day as they can’t pay for their research assistants and students without it. It’s their only source of funds.

    Edit: based upon the ignorant responses most don’t appear to know how PhD programs work and are funded which contributes to the lack of outrage over these destructive policies. US is rapidly going down the tubes.