If scientists think that kissing up to the president has any strategic value, they are quite mistaken; the destruction of American science isn’t slowing down, and all this smells like appeasement.
Agreement requires agency to evaluate hundreds of applications “in good faith” using its standard process
It’s a nuclear option — but it may be necessary
Sources say that a climate of fear has spread throughout the agency as the Trump administration takes a hatchet to its core functions.
Trump’s decision to pardon or commute the sentences of all the January 6 rioters convicted of crimes was a spur of the moment decision designed to get the issue behind him quickly. “Trump just said: ‘F*ck it: Release ‘em all,’” an advisor recalled.
The new bargaining group will represent thousands of early-career scientists at the US National Institutes of Health.
The move opens the door for postdocs and graduate students who want a union to push for better pay and working conditions
Push for better pay and benefits among US scientists arrives at world’s largest biomedical funder.
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