This is going to affect every university. Something like 60% of grant funding at my wife's university comes from federal grants. I'm pretty sure this is going to hamstring universities across the country, and that's their plan.

Who knows what else they have planned. Turkey went after universities in their authoritarian crackdown, and now they have a straight up brutal dictator. Guess we'll find out.

[–] Thrashy 10 points 1 week ago

I design labs, and my current employer serves primarily higher ed and government clients. This is gonna blow a massive hole in our bottom line, and fear that something like this was coming is why I'm starting to look for employers with an international footprint and/or more private sector clientele. Even if this freeze is only temporary, it's going to kick off a massive wave of brain drain from universities and federal labs to private industry and foreign institutions, and I don't blame the folks making those choices, but it's also gonna impact how much demand there is for my services.

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