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‘We’re no longer attracting top talent’: the brain drain killing American science As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world

Will Europe pickup the slack or fail in this moment? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

20.02.2026 01:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” - Eos Graduate students applying for NSF funding have had their applications returned without review—even though their proposed research appears to fall squarely within the fields of study outlined in the p...

More destruction of the science talent pipeline.

Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” eos.org/research-and...

13.02.2026 12:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

30.01.2026 12:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

The NCAR/UCAR destruction is a strong signal to the world that the USA is disengaging from reality.
eos.org/opinions/wha...

30.01.2026 12:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

U.S. Economic Security | Council on Foreign Relations Executive Summary Strategic competition over the world’s next generation of foundational technologies is underway, and U.S. advantages in artificial intelligence (AI), quantum, and biotechnology are i...

Read the Workforce section for a good chuckle. This report is written by people who are deeply ignorant of how the science ecosystem works. Maybe they should look at the who is writing the papers and patenting new technologies. We have lost our lead. www.cfr.org/task-force-r...

05.01.2026 00:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Personalized Cancer Vaccines Are Almost Here—But Federal Funding Cuts Could Derail Them Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy

A very nice article about the consequences of killing fundamental research because a small group of zealots. www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...

19.11.2025 01:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

NASA Goddard Begins To Disassemble Itself this memo was sent to GSFC-DL-ALL from GSFC-Communications today at 2:12 PM

NASA/GSFC being gutted demonstrates the actual ideology of the value of science to the new government. nasawatch.com/trumpspace/n...

10.11.2025 18:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded "for having explained innovation-driven economic growth" with one half to Joel Mokyr "for having identified ...

Nobel prize awarded for pointing out that Research & Development is a positive feedback in national economies. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...

15.10.2025 00:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The current war on science, and who’s behind it A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar write a book.

A new book on the decay of American science leadership. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

27.09.2025 11:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bread dough rising in a bowl.

I hope to rise to the challenge.

21.09.2025 13:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On 9/16/25, celebrate a date of mathematical beauty Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

16.09.2025 11:50 — 👍 1197 🔁 631 💬 23 📌 111

Vannevar Bush - Wikipedia

Vannevar Bush is a name folks should know. He is a founding father of the modern American research infrastructure. Research and innovation are not things you can just turn on and off. Creating a education pipeline for inquisitive minds is essential. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanneva...

16.09.2025 00:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Old Solar Panels Built in the Early 1990s Are Still Going Strong After 30 Years at 80% Original Power — And That’s a Big Deal for Our Energy Future Thirty years later, old-school solar panels are still delivering on their promise.

Photovoltaic panels can last 30+ years at 80% efficiency! It sure would be nice to participate in the solar revolution.
www.zmescience.com/ecology/rene...

05.09.2025 14:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0