Currently, the US is in a situation where there’s a huge push by the Trump administration (driven by people like Elon) to reduce government spending because of an expectation that there won’t be enough future revenue to pay for government debt. I would expect it to hard for Republicans to grant that there’s a potential for windfall profits which means that all their deposit reduction focuses is irrelevant.
The Trump administration decided to put a bunch of contrarians in charge of science funding. Those people push to defund DEI and indirect costs of NIH grants so that less money goes to university administratiors.
RFK Jr already said that he wants 20% of the NIH funds to go to replication studies as part of their gold science science push. That’s some retribution of funds from DEI to replication studies.
Ideally money from wasteful research would instead be direct to funding other research and not to reducing the budget.
Over the next years there will be efforts to radically rework how science founding is given out and if you want to make proposals to change science funding it probably makes sense to focus them on appealing to the current powerful stakeholders.
Currently, the US is in a situation where there’s a huge push by the Trump administration (driven by people like Elon) to reduce government spending because of an expectation that there won’t be enough future revenue to pay for government debt. I would expect it to hard for Republicans to grant that there’s a potential for windfall profits which means that all their deposit reduction focuses is irrelevant.
The Trump administration decided to put a bunch of contrarians in charge of science funding. Those people push to defund DEI and indirect costs of NIH grants so that less money goes to university administratiors.
RFK Jr already said that he wants 20% of the NIH funds to go to replication studies as part of their gold science science push. That’s some retribution of funds from DEI to replication studies.
Ideally money from wasteful research would instead be direct to funding other research and not to reducing the budget.
Over the next years there will be efforts to radically rework how science founding is given out and if you want to make proposals to change science funding it probably makes sense to focus them on appealing to the current powerful stakeholders.