Several of these are grants that support students and trainees.
I guess you avoid future problems with pesky argumentative scientists trying to cure deadly diseases and save the planet from human action if you stop training new ones altogether

‘Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care
what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones.
Not me! Julia! Not me!’

--Orwell, 1984

This is why graduate students should be funded directly.

Intracellular competition shapes plasmid population dynamics Conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution, from populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements in microbes. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-r...

I'm so happy that I can finally share the results of my first postdoc paper with @baym.lol!!! Turns out plasmids are an amazing system to study multi-scale evolution and we can track within-cell and between-cell dynamics!
(1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/earl...

Here's hoping the science community here grows and is less toxic than what was left behind