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Federal Shutdown Means More Grants Won't Be Reviewed This Cycle

31 points by SubiculumCode ↗ HN
Federal Shutdown Means More NIH Grants Won't Be Reviewed this cycle, more lost time, more research coming to a halt, more scientists leaving to other nations. This is what a failing superpower looks like.

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softwaredoug
The Dem argument would be that NIH Grants are not particularly reliable under a funded Trump administration, as the administration seems to ignore the will of Congress on a whim, cancel grants, etc with little legal recourse.

(Or worse, grants are doled out to cronies)

nine_zeros
If anyone thought China's gain in the last 20 years was rapid, they have no clue what it would look like by 2028 - thanks to a self-inflicted damage by Republicans.
firefax
I encouraged folks with strong English skills to apply to Canadian and UK unis in 2016 and got called hysterical and an extremist.

There's a big sunk cost in learning a language, but Canada and the UK have some fine unis. (No offense to Edinburgh but you're no Oxbridge yet -- I'd bet that Scotland declares independence and joins back with the EU at some point, the main reason independence failed last vote is a lot of the things they wanted they got via being in the EU.)