Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Postdocs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Postdocs</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhD</span></a> students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a>, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.<br>Month of repeated threats to <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> science funding, many early-career researchers are fearing for their careers. <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scientists</span></a> especially vulnerable: graduate students, postdocs and scientists just starting their own labs are the researchers most likely to be living pay cheque to pay cheque, most reliant on federal grants for their income.<br><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00550-0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-025</span><span class="invisible">-00550-0</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/PhDLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhDLife</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/PhDChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhDChat</span></a></p>