Message just in from James Pennebaker, President of the APS, about a sadly highly important project by Tim Wilson. Tim is collecting a bunch of short punchy videos on the theme of ‘what we’ll never know’–because Trump has just cancelled our research funding.
The first four are already up at https://www.youtube.com/@TimothyWilson18
Use these to lobby your local politicians, etc. Maybe also suggest further leading researchers who might make videos. Suggestions to Tim at tdw@virginia.edu
U.S. funding cuts are also having drastic repercussions around the world–a substantial proportion of Australia’s leading researchers have U.S. funding, often as part of international collaborations. Here we’re all seeing that all-to-familiar combination of disbelief, uncertainty, despair… as highly promising programs are trashed, data destroyed, billions wasted…
Weeping,
Geoff