Science is under attack in the US. The new administration is terminating existing grants, preventing the review of new grant applications, and threatening to cut the "indirect costs" paid to universities for research. It is also firing staff at the National Institutes of Health and other agencies, reversing efforts to make the scientific workforce more diverse and inclusive, pulling out of international bodies such as the World Health Organization, and seeking to exert greater control over universities by threatening to withdraw federal funding for research.
The articles in this collection make clear that the actions of the Trump administration are already damaging science in the US, and are likely to have an adverse impact on the American biomedical workforce in the long-term. The articles also call on individual researchers and university leaders to make the case for science to their elected representatives and to the public at large, and for universities to do their best to support ongoing research projects, and to only stop recruiting new PhD students as a last resort.
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