Honestly, I'm absolutely gutted. I remember the anxiety and fear I experienced in 2016 when the administration floated the idea that the subsidized graduate student tuition would be treated as taxable income, and now, 8 years later, so many of my friends who recently finally got faculty positions are considering leaving academia to industry because of lack of funding
Half a decade of graduate school, more of postdoc-ing, just to be told you won't be able to feasibly financially sustain the lab you worked so hard to establish. Not to mention some graduate students are having their offers rescinded because of lack of funding.
I knew this would be a hard time (and has been) for science, but this really breaks my heart. We'll be feeling the effects of this for decades to come.
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