The current regime in not a government entity but a private corrupt criminal enterprise of unqualified individuals, placed in office to disrupt & destroy democracy. Heritage Foundation & och brothers r responsible, Billionaire tech Bros in Silicon Valley are involved. Deport Musk & Thiel, immigrants
A very large and muscular handsome man came to me, with large tears in his eyes, and asked me why his tax money was being spent on thin film lithium niobate. And I told him “listen sir we will get the fattest film mithium riobate cheeseburgers ever. Larger than anyone has ever seen”
I'm pretty sure the Trump administration cares more about rounding up students critical of Israel's behavior than they care about advancing science in the US. Preeeety sure.
The thing is it won’t be shuttered. The tech and related research will be handed over to one of the many client-oligarchs of the regime and they will attempt to monetize it for themselves - having avoided paying for the R&D.
That's absurd. The NSF money goes to on-going research. To do basic work on investigating the science around potential technology. Universities already work to monetize this if it can be monetized. We are going to discover less science, probably train fewer future scientists. Nobody can profit.
That only applies to research that has reached the point where it can be commercialized right now or with just a bit more work. Research that needs four or five years to pay off won't be taken over by industry. The work will just be lost (unless it can be moved to Europe).
Write a paper on it. Make sure to include 'AI' at least 30 times, mention positive indications for Qatar, Crypto, Tesla and how it can mean thousands of cheap jobs in the US.
Infer massive PE stakes.
Then run it up the flagpole.
They *could.* I don't have a spare several billion lying around, and the ones who do seem to spend it on other things (or not spend it), so I'm not sure who will, though.
"Nice research ya got there...be a shame if you couldn't get it funded. Sign this agreement with my company to turn over all products/patents and we'll give all the funding you need. Take the offer... or else"
No need to worry. I heard China does great work on scientific and engineering research. Maybe China will share all the research results they get with us.
But the design is objectively stupid. These people are not smart. Their method appears to be “it can’t be that complicated—just break it and see what happens.” They’re not going to accomplish anything constructive. Even for themselves.
On his Middle East Golden Romper Room Knob Schlob Grift tour, he told Saudi Arabia it was "better than the us [United States]." That bumbling over baubles & pageantry is something no other pres dared to say, esp. not w "America First" agenda.
Miller & Vought are ghouls, obvs.
What are we doing, America?!! Have we lost our minds? If you are not in a position to be fighting this destruction in government or business, get out on the streets and make your voice heard. We are not powerless.
The key words are “no one in their right mind”.Trump & those in his crime syndicate cabinet & agency posts are not in their “right minds”.They are doing everything they can to destroy the programs & services we had in place to protect,defend & keep us safe, educated & healthy. Treasonous or crazy.
The government pays the smartest ppl in the world pennies on the dollar compared to what they’d make at Facebook for research that interests them (and helps the US). There are very few individual decisions that could comparably *reduce* efficiency
Harvard and these other targeted institutions need to start fighting fire with fire. Make a list of all the students whose parents are administration figures or #MAGA donors and begin expelling them.
Shitler-The-Orange doesn't understand that basic research can take us to places and lives we never could have imagined. Basic and applied research are the lifeblood of a vibrant, forward moving society. There needs to be much greater pushback against what Shitler-The-Orange is doing to research.
Correct... one of countless. But even for those projects that are in the 'long shot' category, ad hoc terminations means it won't be possible to get to the commercialization stage.
This is another version of "the bright shiny thing." It's important, it's distracting, but the way to address it is to Halt the damage being done. Remove Trump and Musk, Halt the shuttering of our government.
If anything, this abrupt withdrawal of federal funds (our tax money) is really showing us how dependent big business is on technology and research that rightfully belongs to us, the early investors. They exploit us on the front end and at end product.
Universities aren’t dependent on us to survive, our capitalist society is dependent on them providing that research so it can be exploited for their own profit.
Same is happening in cancer research (which my family is involved in). And fear of it is causing everyone to buckle down and not invest even what they have in new ventures. The ripple of effect of this will be long lasting and devastating. A sacrifice which earns us...absolutely nothing.
Hard to see how tariffs are going to bring business and innovation back to America (a premise I do NOT accept) if you're killing off the innovation and small businesses that make that possible
As soon as someone sits them down and explains it to them in one syllable words, with pictures, puppets, maybe a song they will reinstate the money. Sigh
My guess is that DOGE is cutting or canceling research funds for any project that 1) does not involve AI, 2) is a field in which Elon has no investment, or 3) is competitive with something Elon IS invested in.
Look, you just need to get in touch with Elon, kiss his ass a bunch, and they'll admit they made a woopsie daisy and unfreeze the funds in 2-3 business years.
Aside from the obvious deleterious effects of initiating a reverse Brain Drain in America wht is z objective. Is it to create leverage over z patents and VC driven commercialization of 'hot' technologies. It's very had to make sense of, is it simply destroy(cut off the legs) then take possession.
An administration of willfully ignorant, grievance-driven, vengeful, and petty assholes. The Incels of DOGE setting science back by decades from their parents basements.
I’m not super worried about research with immediate high value commercial applications. But that research often grows from research without immediate high value and we call that “investing” which is a core function of government that the “party of business” has no understanding of.
It would be nice if all these researchers were given a national platform, a media megaphone, to explain just what Americans are going to lose under this administration.
You should be complaining to the Rs and the media, who are ignoring this stuff, not the Ds, who are talking to the indifferent press and the electorate about it every day.
Sure, no reason for you to prefer doing something productive instead of counterproductive. Live your best counterproductive life if you like. Muting you.
Maybe they're not optimistic enough to think that Republican officials would stand up against their own leader's actions, but still optimistic enough to think that the "we should stop talking about those divisive things" Dems might change their minds under enough voter pressure.
Person I responded to was just lying about the Ds not reacting. There are perfectly reasonable arguments about how best to get past the press and reach voters. Stick to kitchen table issues? Throw the kitchen sink at them? King or Malcolm?
What have "thin film lithium niobate photonics" ever done for Trump or his family? It just seems like it would take a lot of effort to figure out how Trump could personally enrich himself based on this research. It is much easier to shake down these small kingdoms in the Middle East.
The American century is absolutely 100% over. Science will continue to happen here, but it will be very difficult to attract and keep researchers when the lab's bread and butter will disappear if a Republican is in office.
If a President wanted to sabotage America and make sure that rival countries like China could surpass it, what would they do differently than the Trump Administration has?
Marko is a pioneer and leader in the field, and this is a technology existential for data centers and quantum, and all sorts of sensors and devices for health, defense ..
In fact I’m flying to a summer school they’re holding in France right now to give a lectures on this research. Crazy to cut it.
That’s the problem with using a hatchet instead of a scalpel. Multiply this times a lot to see what we are in store for. It’s heartbreaking to see these senseless cuts across the whole government.
We are watching morons actively degrading one of the pillars of American prosperity, soft power, and human knowledge: a strong STEM pipeline that draws talent from all across the world. And of course, the cuts also have long-term implications for hard power. So foolish...
I believe that around 40% of all significant discoveries and inventions since the 1950s, have come from research at universities, including small things like the Internet, the birth pill, computers, AI, vaccines, mobile phones, etc.
I’m reliably told this is cutting edge research was cancelled by a president no one in their right mind would vote for, (yet a super majority of whites did).
I think we can all kinda guess what happened here: Apartheid Clyde searched the grant database for "lithium" and cancelled everything that came up because he's scared people will buy all of his battery ingredients.
Hard to believe half of voters are still falling for that "America First" crap lmao.
This administration is not very smart at all on all levels! They really have no clue what their doing other than breaking everything & trying to put more money in their own pockets.
I think our would be Silicon Valley overlords have decided that research is dead and soon to be replaced by AI. Bonus points, from MAGA POV, for sticking if to liberals who control the college ecosystem.
I work in this industry, and yes. All these fools who want their data centers to go faster and be cheaper need a new solution. TLN is one option. All options rely heavily on gov funding.
Basically, they're dumping poison on the lawn and then later will lament why plants aren't growing.
I really honestly believe trump could careless or even realises what he has done. I bbn just hope these scientist are able to find a suitable environment to further their research.
If one wanted to crash the US economy, let the old and sick die, and ultimately divide the nation up into corporate or religious run fiefdoms, one would follow this plan to the letter.
The stupidity is in thinking their new hellscapes won’t be objectively worse than the world they destroyed. They’re not going to replace the American state, and once they’re on their own amongst the nations of the world sans that buffer? They’re like Hitler sleeping til noon on D Day.
Oh, I know. I just think they’re intensely naive about geopolitics and from where US power actually derives. No one is going to treat their network state like the United States is treated. Best case scenario is Balkanized insanity.
And the EU, especially France, are now spending hundreds of millions of euros to snap up top researchers who will need to flee the US to keep their careers as scientists; those of Chinese descent will go to China. We won't survive 3.5 more years of this.
We'll survive 3.5 years but not 13.5 years. No future election can undo the damage done to us by an apathetic and ignorant electorate. And global warming is about to get eyepoppingly expensive.
Yeah, who would want to make agreements with us over anything, if the next guy will just cancel it all (or change what it costs from day to day). It's like England's Queen Elizabeth I and Mary - one day it's illegal to be Catholic, the next it's illegal not to be. Madness, not stability.
It is about private businesses [hi elon, theil etc] taking over...
They will commandeer research...
Unless we vote
Yes vote! [the most powerful action of demos/the people/democracy]
To stop this we need muscular government in Congress
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Infer massive PE stakes.
Then run it up the flagpole.
They just cut with no attention to what they were cutting.
I am truly just asking
Elon Musk, probably
Or Trump
"that no one in their right mind would shutter."
This is the most inept administration of any civilized country right now. They have literally no idea what they are doing, none.
On his Middle East Golden Romper Room Knob Schlob Grift tour, he told Saudi Arabia it was "better than the us [United States]." That bumbling over baubles & pageantry is something no other pres dared to say, esp. not w "America First" agenda.
Miller & Vought are ghouls, obvs.
https://electrek.co/2025/05/15/company-returns-entire-tesla-vehicle-fleet-because-of-elon-musk/
Like if you’re in the pocket of another world leader.
Elon is loaded with conflicts of interests, so was he perhaps doing a favor for a leading industrial economy that he has extensive business ties with?
Which is exactly what Trump is doing.
I don't know what other conclusion you can come to at this point.
Fucking morons.
You can't expect them to not make mistakes!
Faith-based science will make America great again :0|
And if only voters listened when we said the two parties were not the same.
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Just don't blame the Ds full stop.
In fact I’m flying to a summer school they’re holding in France right now to give a lectures on this research. Crazy to cut it.
Hard to believe half of voters are still falling for that "America First" crap lmao.
#USPolitics
Basically, they're dumping poison on the lawn and then later will lament why plants aren't growing.
They will commandeer research...
Unless we vote
Yes vote! [the most powerful action of demos/the people/democracy]
To stop this we need muscular government in Congress
And
States