{"id":22331,"date":"2025-02-16T14:57:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T15:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22331"},"modified":"2025-02-16T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T16:27:12","slug":"as-trump-targets-research-scientists-share-grief-and-resolve-to-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22331","title":{"rendered":"As Trump Targets Research, Scientists Share Grief and Resolve to Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At a conference in Boston, the nation\u2019s scientists commiserated and strategized as funding cuts and federal layoffs throw their world into turmoil.<\/p>\n

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At the annual gathering in Boston this week of one of America\u2019s oldest scientific societies, the discussions touched on threats to humankind: runaway artificial intelligence, toxic \u201cforever chemicals,\u201d the eventual end of the universe.<\/p>\n

But the most urgent threats for many scientists were the ones aimed at them, as the Trump administration slashes the federal scientific work force and cuts back on billions of dollars in funding for research at universities.<\/p>\n

\u201cAngst and anxiety and, to a certain extent, grief,\u201d is how Sudip Parikh, who leads the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the organization hosting the conference, summed up the mood on Saturday. News about layoffs at government agencies rippled across conference-goers\u2019 phones.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like we\u2019re getting hit from all sides,\u201d said Roger Wakimoto, the vice chancellor for research at the University of California, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mere weeks into President Trump\u2019s second term, his administration and Republicans in Congress have sent universities reeling with crackdowns on diversity initiatives, threats to endowments and potential deportations of undocumented students.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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President Trump in Florida on Friday.<\/span>Al Drago for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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At a conference in Boston, the nation\u2019s scientists commiserated and strategized as funding cuts and federal layoffs throw their world into turmoil.At the annual gathering in Boston this week of one of America\u2019s oldest scientific societies, the discussions touched on threats to humankind: runaway artificial intelligence, toxic \u201cforever chemicals,\u201d the eventual end of the universe.But the most urgent threats for many scientists were the ones aimed at them, as the Trump administration slashes the federal scientific work force and cuts back on billions of dollars in funding for research at universities.\u201cAngst and anxiety and, to a certain extent, grief,\u201d is how Sudip Parikh, who leads the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the organization hosting the conference, summed up the mood on Saturday. News about layoffs at government agencies rippled across conference-goers\u2019 phones.\u201cIt\u2019s like we\u2019re getting hit from all sides,\u201d said Roger Wakimoto, the vice chancellor for research at the University of California, Los Angeles.Mere weeks into President Trump\u2019s second term, his administration and Republicans in Congress have sent universities reeling with crackdowns on diversity initiatives, threats to endowments and potential deportations of undocumented students.President Trump in Florida on Friday.Al Drago for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22333,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22334,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22331\/revisions\/22334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}