Not necessarily. High performers can be promoted into roles with a probationary period at NIH. This blunt/dumb move may fire some of the best researchers not just those most recently hired. (Source: I used to work there, >12years).
This includes employees hired within the past year. They will be on administrative leave with pay for 4 weeks, which I guess is how all these firings are working, but their access will be revoked by the end of the day, apparently.
Doctor here.
This is INSANITY.
More progress made in recent years on advanced cancers than in rest of my entire lifetime, & now they want to stop progress?
Firings just to pay for billionaire tax cuts!
DOGE & MAGAs are cancers on American society!
I curse them & their vengeful moronic supporters.
They’re not only choking off the pipeline of new talent, they’re beheading bright young lights that made it into their jobs through stringent, competitive review processes. All this will be replaced by spineless bootlickers, empty desks, & abandoned or unfinished R&D, critical for fighting cancer.
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This is INSANITY.
More progress made in recent years on advanced cancers than in rest of my entire lifetime, & now they want to stop progress?
Firings just to pay for billionaire tax cuts!
DOGE & MAGAs are cancers on American society!
I curse them & their vengeful moronic supporters.
Let them expire.
They don’t need them.
Maybe it's payback for Vietnam. I got nothing.