Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US. President’s call to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ has led to slashes in NIH funding – endangering jobs and vital research. This does NOT make America great. #MOMSky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... - ThreadSky

zen4ever2us.bsky.social • 80 days ago

Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US.

President’s call to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ has led to slashes in NIH funding – endangering jobs and vital research.

This does NOT make America great.

#MOMSky
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/19/trump-nih-funding-scientists?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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laurastock.bsky.social•80 days ago

I wonder who is gonna be the Sir-Mix-A-Lot of scientists and pull up quick to retrieve them all.. #hopefullycanada

jailhouse-dog.bsky.social•80 days ago

People with less than college ed don't really understand the nuances of modern government and so are an easy mark for those pushing simplistic solutions to complex problems. Trump's supporters would rather hear a simple lie from him than a complex truth from someone they're suspicious of.

quintel.bsky.social•80 days ago

The goal is to destabilize not make anything better

thiswewilldefend.bsky.social•80 days ago

Senator Tommy Tuberville is okay with Trump cutting NIH funding to Alabama-Birmingham, which received $413.7 MILLION in 2023.

President Musk will count this as a cost savings, so the people of Alabama are also okay with it.

Finding Out.

tuningfork.bsky.social•79 days ago

Lobotomy applied to Health! What the Trump-Musk funding slash is accomplishing is a classic Lobotomy. The hostility appears to be fiscal. But it is actually anti-science and anti-regulation. It is the deinstitutionalization of more than a half century of accumulated knowledge. Lobotomy!

grameee5.bsky.social•80 days ago

Unfortunately, they’re not cutting their stealing! Stealing from the American public!

wearethetruth.bsky.social•80 days ago

This👆!!!

jaymeruimveld.bsky.social•80 days ago

Good times ahead for the poor, the working class, the vulnerable.
Wealthy people seeking medical care can jet to wherever they need to go to find top doctors for treatment, surgery, etc.
Meanwhile, those without privilege, living in rural areas or crowded cities will be lucky to find a doctor.

happyrumrunner.bsky.social•80 days ago

If competing nations aren't already approaching disgruntled U.S. scientists and try to poach them, then they need to wake the fuck up. Their work needs to continue.

1teejay.bsky.social•80 days ago

The best and brightest should leave the US.

nyebodnye.bsky.social•80 days ago

Where are they going to go ? Denmark 😂

wonderland101.bsky.social•80 days ago

Don't leave stay and fight back 🤦‍♂️

leo-atreides.bsky.social•79 days ago

So any president is allowed to unilaterally decide how we spend our purse? If we live in the United States of America our founding fathers designed it such that how money is allocated, how laws are accepted and made, all have their own branch withing the tree of life that makes up the USA! 🦅❤️‍🔥🌟🦁✝️🗽🧲

leo-atreides.bsky.social•79 days ago

OH I was once accused of straw-manning a person who refused to acknowledge what was written on the walls. With my questions. In a Stephen King novel they would be the first victim who'd question why someone write REDRUM backwards and in blood; just long enough for them not to exist anymore.📖🏆🌟🦁✝️❤️‍🔥🧲

csriracha184.bsky.social•80 days ago

'Make America Great' was a catch phrase, not a plan to actually do it. Donny is too stupid and greedy to fix anything

deeg.bsky.social•78 days ago

It's just so stupid. Make Measles Great Again.

morpheus55.bsky.social•80 days ago

If this were me, I'd leave US as there's no future for science here. Research is gutted

terisa1.bsky.social•79 days ago

Scientists, doctors, ANYONE who wants to do research WILL have to leave, because the grants to do research are gone.

kensalaz.bsky.social•80 days ago

Our country is going to be intellectually bankrupt. This is what the Republicans want. Uneducated, easily manipulated electorate. Slash public school funding, and programs for the most vulnerable portions of the population, then promise to fix it if they get reelected.

woit.bsky.social•80 days ago

They will attack the press, education, intellectuals, scientists, doctors, gender equality, and finally, they will silence you because you will no longer have a firewall.

kristinamcc.bsky.social•78 days ago

A brain drain. Just what we need. (sarcasm)

sylviannayers.bsky.social•80 days ago

Come to Canada !🇨🇦

jc1659.bsky.social•80 days ago

When will MAGA see the truth, or do we have 60 million Russian assets in this country

kensalaz.bsky.social•80 days ago

Cultists only see the truth spoken by the cult leader.

jc1659.bsky.social•80 days ago

The worst funny part about all this is GOP senators from all red states are writing to trump and begging that he can't cut funds from their state. What they all could do is turn independent & vote against this treasonous criminal who is weakening the country for Putin, he blamed Ukraine for the war

kensalaz.bsky.social•80 days ago

I like to call it cruel irony.

techogre.bsky.social•80 days ago

If you do leave, come to Canada. We're science friendly.

avracadaver.bsky.social•78 days ago

Not to mention demonizing the disabled!

traceywags.bsky.social•80 days ago

What exactly is MAHA plan to eradicate chronic illness etc without scientists??? It’s shocking how very little the GOP cares about anything but themselves.

ginamyhill-jones.bsky.social•79 days ago

Sorry…
Canada is closed.
Our excellent social benefits will be stretched as the USA declares economic if not genuine war.
We are not considering adoptions at this time
Sorry🇨🇦

amedeofelix.bsky.social•79 days ago

Don't treat the slogan as serious. Trump only wanted to stay out of prison, and his puppet masters want to burn everything to the ground to rule unopposed over the ashes.

elisajstewart.bsky.social•80 days ago

There is a military tactic called soften the battlefield. The goal is to weaken an enemies defensive capabilities before a direct attack.

Here, we watch our own leaders put clowns in charge of our defense systems, our health, our food supply. Meanwhile our leaders appear lockstep with Putin. Why.

kensalaz.bsky.social•80 days ago

kompromat:
compromising information collected for use in blackmailing, discrediting, or manipulating someone, typically for political purposes.
"the leak shows that kompromat need not reveal anything illegal to be damaging"