Yves here. This article dovetails with part of KLG’s Coffee Break yesterday, where he discussed in some detail the long and arduous process by which bright eyed and bushy tailed youngsters became scientists, and how devastating it is to them personally and to the future of science in the US to have Federal funding severely curtailed. This piece discusses how the various disciplines attempt to hunker down.

By C. Brandon Ogbunu, an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute, and the author of Undark’s Selective Pressure column. Originally published at Undark

Scientific institutions are in full scramble. No amount of diplomacy or charity can interpret the modern moment as anything other than an attempt at destroying the foundations of the modern scientific machine. In particular, layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (some of which

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