Hopefully not.

But that 5% of research that makes money (“useful” research) rests on the 95% of “useless” research. I reject the useful/useless characterization on that basis too.

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Books like mitpress.mit.edu/978026254505... suggest, anecdotally, that some science deniers have suffered a trauma related to loss of control. Distrusting the establishment is easier than accepting how little control we have to stop bad things from happening to us. I would love a real study though.

Might be useful to plot the total amount awarded vs time as well since one objection I heard is that, with the NSF funding everything up front, we should expect the slow to be less. I have done it myself, by the way - the objection is wrong no matter how you look at it.

Uh…this chart is concerning.

How could this number be possible? Sure, childcare is too expensive but this # flies in the face of lived reality. Many households earning much less appear to have 2-3 children who are in daycare or otherwise cared for.

Is funding willing these days? We shall see.

But if you can control the crosstalk, you can make smartgoo. or at least encode memories

can you make them talk to each other? like you raise the temperature and one dissolves, then modifies the phase diagram of another?

Science?! On Bluesky? I haven't seen this since I first joined.

when you put it that way…yikes!

Yep, that’s where we are.

Quite a salty response.

that is bad.

I keep waking up expecting to read about a military buildup near Greenland, but can they really keep the troop movements required to take Greenland a secret? Think of the lead up to just grabbing Maduro.

Good on you for responding but experience and recent history has shown that, at least with adults, you can't reason most people out of antiscience no matter how obvious it is they are wrong. Maybe I'm just jaded though.

Don't they pay you for that? Don't give that away for free!

My kids, while watching the new stranger things, thought it was so unrealistic. They said, “They can’t just walk into a school like that!”

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It all depends on what you are trying to do. That way of thinking about it doesn’t get a first year student in physics anything they could use at their stage of development to calculate something. It comes into its own in graduate level classes though

I sometimes think, on my darkest days, that promoting the communication of science with the public was a terrible mistake and a major contributor to the snake-oil science era we now find ourselves in.

There aren’t really enough Americans. Americans aren’t dumber or even less hard working - there just aren’t enough of us to support the size of the current tech/university sector. I read we have 5% of the population but 20% of the “smart” people. can’t find a source for that now.

It is an annual fee too so it is worse than the headline says. But can be lifted at will for companies that toe the party line I guess so it could be used to exert extra control over private companies.

I am trying to remember where I read this first but, in fact, as Asimov predicted, our technology may be so advanced in some areas it already is indistinguishable from magic. Not only to our ancestors but essentially even to ourselves.

You’re worried too?

I wonder how they feel about supernovas?

So do something. Please. People’s lives are at risk.

5…4….3….2….

So far China is the only one competing in terms of money. If the US goes full authoritarian, that may be where people go. For now I am doing my best helping my people get postdocs in Europe. but the numbers are not in our favor

they are certainly trying but the loss of funding is far too great for them to make up. Many were cutting science themselves. There are now new programs throughout the world to attract US scientists but the numbers are still so small.