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   Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 06:18:52 JST Cat Hicks

   My neuroscientist wife, whose vital, necessary and compassionate scientific work directly increasing the number of scientists we have in this country has been threatened and defunded by the current administration, is currently conducting a lit review to help a loved one diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 06:18:51 JST Cat Hicks

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     you gut children's future opportunities (better tell those kids to stop imagining they could be scientists if you're not ready to fund them yourself), & I suppose folks don't care about this, but it destroys the careers of the kindest, most hard-working, & most intelligent people I've ever known

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 06:18:52 JST Cat Hicks

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     She no longer has confidence that we'll continue to get the kind of progress on brain diseases we've been getting; we already know multiple labs that have had to shut down their research programs entirely.

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 06:18:52 JST Cat Hicks

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     These are the people you defund, this is the work you destroy, when you gut the NIH & the NSF & the scientific infrastructure. And by the way, when you gut "diversity in science," you gut work that lets us understand women's brains (an explicit focus for a tiny fraction of neuroscience research)

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.