1. Scientific research in the United States.
2. The talent pipeline for this research.
3. The university system itself.
4. The careers of thousands of people like Dr. Minor
For what? Politics? Resentment? Thiel? Putin?
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I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
1. Scientific research in the United States.
2. The talent pipeline for this research.
3. The university system itself.
4. The careers of thousands of people like Dr. Minor
For what? Politics? Resentment? Thiel? Putin?
Thread: