All scientific grant funding must now be approved by a political appointee and "demonstrably advance the President's policy priorities." I wonder where innovation will happen in the future? It won't be in the US arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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aug 10, 2025, 9:57 am • 0 0 • view
I'm curious about how much of the money needs to get kicked back to Trump in order for a grant application to be approved. Maybe we should ask John Roberts.
aug 9, 2025, 12:56 am • 4 0 • view
I remember watching the movie "The Hunt for Red October" and being surprised how everything the had to be approved by a political officer. I never thought I'd live in such a country. But here we are.
aug 10, 2025, 3:17 am • 21 1 • view
Politruks at work. They will do to American science what Lysenko did to Soviet biology.
aug 9, 2025, 1:03 am • 2 0 • view
These people just, fundamentally, do not understand that these are load bearing structures. Everything is consequence free, everything's a game. America doesn't support the university system, the university system supports America. When it's gone, it's gone.
aug 8, 2025, 6:29 pm • 72 8 • view
I don’t think they care. Trump wants to be able to control everything and everyone in the U.S., period. That goal is more important than power or prestige that do not accrue to Trump.
aug 8, 2025, 7:07 pm • 31 2 • view
Authoritarian regimes have this as an almost built-in feature: the regime will have a very high level of tolerance for negative long-term outcomes for the country, especially if they are balanced out by positive outcomes for the leaders.
aug 8, 2025, 7:38 pm • 38 5 • view
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aug 8, 2025, 7:45 pm • 3 0 • view
It takes skill, work and time to build something every monkey can destroy within moments.
aug 9, 2025, 1:45 pm • 1 0 • view
I doubt any serious research will actually result from this system. The political operatives will demand certain conditions and conclusions that will result in scientifically useless garbage. And a lot of the funding will “disappear”. Very Soviet/Russian.
aug 9, 2025, 12:39 am • 3 0 • view
Science will ensure that the White House will look ever more tacky and class-less. The president’s priorities, after all, are primarily to spend money in making it look like an ever cheaper version of Sadam Hussein’s palace.
aug 9, 2025, 9:22 am • 0 0 • view
I think they're officially called "commissars."
aug 8, 2025, 6:23 pm • 18 1 • view
In a previous era in a previous land, the political appointee was called the “Zampolit”.
aug 9, 2025, 11:34 am • 0 0 • view
China's getting win after win without having to do anything. America is finished as a superpower.
aug 9, 2025, 10:02 pm • 15 2 • view
F this. It's so odd to watch the good things fed gov does get destroyed by "anti big gov" ppl. Whether in-grouping or eliminating (while select few still keep the money). Wish I had the foresight years ago to understand anti deep state was never anti deep state, rather WHO is the deep state.
aug 9, 2025, 1:46 am • 0 0 • view
This is a terrible idea. Just let the scientists science.
aug 8, 2025, 4:28 pm • 11 1 • view
The scientists are going to be even more furious, if that's even humanly possible.
aug 8, 2025, 8:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Still waiting for all my libertarian, Trump-supporting friends to admit they were wrong (or that they were never actually libertarian).
aug 10, 2025, 3:45 am • 21 2 • view
You’re going to die waiting. I’ve just banished those people from my life.
aug 12, 2025, 1:29 am • 1 0 • view
(So have I, actually.)
aug 12, 2025, 1:33 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah, the number of putative libertarians who instantly became fans of authoritarianism when their guy took power is remarkable
aug 11, 2025, 4:17 pm • 1 1 • view
aug 9, 2025, 1:13 am • 0 0 • view
So I guess we'll be studying eugenics, phrenology, all the racisms, and probly the blood type diet 🙄
aug 9, 2025, 12:11 pm • 2 0 • view
China and smaller amounts in Europe. But the real net is simply going to be less science and less advancement, period.
aug 8, 2025, 7:18 pm • 10 1 • view
"Demonstrably advance the priorities of the man who has the President's ear". The President's actual priorities are 'is everyone talking about me?" No ideas, no ideology.
aug 8, 2025, 6:08 pm • 5 0 • view
President has no authority to impose such conditions on grants. Another reason to #impeach.
aug 8, 2025, 4:35 pm • 4 0 • view
@nytimes.com can’t find coverage of this?
aug 9, 2025, 5:57 pm • 0 1 • view
China.
aug 8, 2025, 6:28 pm • 1 0 • view
We want to be a competitor like china and Russia and not a progressive country.
aug 9, 2025, 1:29 am • 0 0 • view
Russia is not a competitor (they trail significantly in science investment) and China invests trillions in R&D. Trump is slashing billions in scientific investment. The US is about to become an ‘also-ran’.
aug 9, 2025, 7:03 am • 1 0 • view
“New Frontiers in Fraud”
aug 8, 2025, 6:18 pm • 3 0 • view
The Hunt for Red October… I’m at submarine, there was a political appointee who had to oversee the running of the submarine. I guess Trump prefers Nazi bullshit, but will stoop to something socialist or communist if it fits his needs. I’m wondering, who is going to take over when Trump is gone?
aug 8, 2025, 7:49 pm • 5 1 • view
😢😢😢
aug 8, 2025, 4:24 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 9, 2025, 7:40 am • 1 0 • view
Stalin would be proud
aug 9, 2025, 1:48 am • 3 0 • view