Under #Biden US national labs found themselves hamstrung by micromanagement, demands from the administration that resources be diverted away from #science while regulators repeatedly shut down programs much to the chagrin of our International partners.
It's been a breath of fresh air that the new administration has allowed us to actually get back to work. I don't even care if they know what they are doing, at least they are no longer interfering. Science is getting back on track now.
Regardless of everything else that #Trump might be getting into, and maybe it's just because he's just that incompetent, at least the US is getting back on track with its scientific endeavors. Our experiments are getting back up to speed after years of crippling bureaucracy, and we can start making progress again.
There's a lot to complain about with Trump, but I am very glad to see that the expectations for science are living up to what I'd hoped.
@volkris news to me. Where’s the evidence of your allegations?
@Sojourner00 unfortunately I don't have any public records that I can share, although if you're able to check out records of international scientists booking their travel down to US national labs you will see an uptick as the labs come back online.
We've spent years telling our International partners that they might as well cancel their travel because we're not going to be running. Now that we're finally coming back online, they are starting to fly back in to manage experiments over here.
It's really been something of a breaking of the dam, so many people from around the world have had their work put on hold, but it's starting to move again, and it's pretty exciting to be honest.
@volkris I guess that’s why they have cut back funding for science via NSF and NIH. Maybe they want to fund more of your kind of science and not actual science.
@volkris What examples are you thinking of here? NSF, Dept of Energy?