Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades

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throw0101d · 7m ago

* https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/...

JPLeRouzic · 2h ago

Didn’t the greatest advancements in science occur during a time when it was more of a personal hobby (19th and early 20th centuries)?

Aren't we at a time when progress is quite slow (end 20th and early 21st centuries with big teams and a lot of funding)?

throw0101d · 3m ago

> Didn’t the greatest advancements in science occur during a time when it was more of a personal hobby (19th and early 20th centuries)?

Perhaps, but there was a lot of low-hanging fruit (as a sibling comment mentions).

Biology then was taking a cup of pond water and putting it under a microscope. Biology now is gene sequencing and using HPC clusters to search through FASTA files.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTA_format

What kind of new discoveries are available to backyard astronomers versus using JWST data?

jleyank · 2h ago

Theoretical physics perhaps, but molecular biology or some other wet squishy science, no. Experiments can cost $$. This funding is for basic research and staff training, two things industry is allergic to.

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Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades

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