US EditionThe dismantling of US science: can it survive Trump 2.0?
- Since January 2025, the Trump administration has implemented over 80 actions that halted or cut billions in federal science funding, research grants, and agency budgets across the US.
- These actions follow a pattern of controlling science to align with state ideology, reducing university independence, and prioritizing geopolitical goals within just over 100 days.
- Key impacts include frozen National Science Foundation funding, terminated NIH grants, staffing losses at the National Weather Service, and delayed or canceled research at universities like Harvard and Columbia.
- The National Weather Service has lost over 550 staff, 30 forecasting offices lack experienced leads, and NIH faces proposed 40% budget cuts from a $47 billion baseline, alarming many agency meteorologists.
- This widespread dismantling risks weakening US scientific infrastructure, prompting concerns about delayed warnings, rural community harm, and possible researcher migration abroad, potentially benefiting Europe’s science sector.
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Conservatives less trusting of science compared to liberals in the United States
A new study published in Nature Human Behaviour reveals that in the United States, political conservatives tend to trust scientists less than liberals across a wide range of scientific fields—not just in politically charged areas like climate change or public health. Despite attempts to bridge this ideological trust gap using targeted interventions, researchers found that brief messaging strategies were ineffective at increasing conservatives’ t…
The US government terrorises universities, leftists and migrants. About Donald Trump's fight against freedom of science.
How Democrats and Republicans use science differently to shape policy
New research shows U.S. policymakers are relying on science more than ever — but that’s where the common ground ends. Johanna Wagstaffe breaks down the data that shows how Republicans and Democrats use science differently to shape their policies.
Public health protections unravel as U.S. science agencies face political cuts
The Editors-in-Chief of several prominent European toxicology journals write that recent layoffs and restrictions at top U.S. health and environmental agencies are undermining public safety, slowing innovation, and damaging global trust.The editorial was published jointly in Regulatory Toxicology & Pharmacology, Current Opinion in Toxicology, Chemico Biological Interactions, Computational Toxicology, ALTEX – Alternatives to Animal Experimentatio…
The times when free research was allowed in the protected area of the universities seem to be over. Today, researchers from the left and the right like to make political-ideological regulations. However, wokeism and Trumpism cannot simply be equated.
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