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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social ("Brad Rosenheim") wrote:
These scientists were in the early stages of they careers, with newly earned PhDs and temporary employment working on coastal flooding research. They were likely looking for jobs in academia or industry after getting a publication or two from their postdoc position. Those publications would ultimately help the USGS mission.
But they were ultimately seen as government waste by the unelected officials controlling the U.S.A. government under this adminsitrative #coup.
It is demoralizing. Recruitment of young scientists to our research community in St Petersburg was a hue part of who we are. Transmission of new ideas, formation of new collaboration, discovery of new ideas - this is how the scientific process really works. It is not the crumbs of individual geniuses like half of our population thinks Musk is. It is this very system that they are dismantling here and elsewhere!