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| poster by Shepard Fairey |
The EPA was just directed to freeze all grants. This means that graduate students and researchers funded on EPA funds are now without funds. All ongoing studies are stopped.
Scientists at the EPA and USDA are also blocked from communicating with the press or through the internet.
It all happened in a moment with a memo, by executive action, with zero input or oversight.
It could happen to any Federal institute, including the National Science Foundation, which funds research at universities around the country -- including the health insurance and living stipends of many, many students.
Trump also froze all federal hiring yesterday.
Please, if you can safely raise your voice, raise it loudly.
Call your congresspeople, call the White House, write op-eds and articles and blog posts.
AND TWEET
This is only Day 4.
(Share widely-- copy and paste is best to share with people outside our common friends. I did not write this. It was copied and pasted from a scientist who wants to remain anonymous. The fear of retaliation is real.)
#RESIST
