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  • JodiJ
    JodiJ
    Jodi
    wrote on last edited by
    #5

    I’m so sorry. 🙁

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    • JodiJ Jodi

      I’m so sorry. 🙁

      ShiroKuroS
      ShiroKuroS
      ShiroKuro
      wrote on last edited by
      #6

      @Jodi thank you!

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      • R
        R
        RealPlayer
        wrote on last edited by
        #7

        I’m so sorry, SK.

        My daughter’s job will soon be ending because it depended on USAID funding, which has been decimated.

        Lots of casualties initiated by this guy.

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        • R RealPlayer

          I’m so sorry, SK.

          My daughter’s job will soon be ending because it depended on USAID funding, which has been decimated.

          Lots of casualties initiated by this guy.

          ShiroKuroS
          ShiroKuroS
          ShiroKuro
          wrote on last edited by
          #8

          @RealPlayer said:

          My daughter’s job will soon be ending

          I'm so sorry to hear this!!

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          • RontunerR
            RontunerR
            Rontuner
            wrote on last edited by
            #9

            So far our son's research job is still ok - I believe lots of private funding has been able to bridge the gaps left behind by the Trumpublican regime

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            • ShiroKuroS ShiroKuro

              Well, it finally happened to me. I knew it would happen eventually. You-know-who axed a grant program I had applied to. They were supposed to announce the results at the beginning of September. As the days came and went and there was no announcement, I started to suspect this would happen.

              He announced a new “pocket rescission" package on Friday. Although the announcement doesn’t name the program we applied to, apparently it’s been canceled because it’s in the “Ed funding for woke international education” category, listed here:

              https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/09/president-trump-takes-historic-action-to-eliminate-wasteful-and-harmful-spending/

              I spent the better part of the summer preparing this grant application, I am (was) the project lead for this project that would have had a 6-digit figure budget (a huge and ambitious project in my field, which doesn’t need expensive equipment or labs, so project funding is generally much more modest than in stem fields, so the project we proposed was a huge deal and would have been a sizing for the research I do).

              I would rather have had the project rejected than the entire program canceled because of this *sshat’s idiotic policies.

              I knew we shouldn’t have applied for a federal grant under this administration. What a huge f*cking waste of time that was.

              Dammit.

              B
              B
              Bernard
              wrote on last edited by
              #10

              @ShiroKuro Jeeze, sorry to hear it, SK.

              The industrial revolution cheapened everything.

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              • RontunerR Rontuner

                So far our son's research job is still ok - I believe lots of private funding has been able to bridge the gaps left behind by the Trumpublican regime

                ShiroKuroS
                ShiroKuroS
                ShiroKuro
                wrote on last edited by
                #11

                @Rontuner said:

                So far our son's research job is still ok - I believe lots of private funding has been able to bridge the gaps left behind by the Trumpublican regime

                Hopefully your son will continue to helped both those resources.

                But some of those gaps are just going to go unfilled.

                @bernard thank you!

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                • AdagioMA
                  AdagioMA
                  AdagioM
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                  #12

                  Craptastic. I’m so sorry, @shirokuro @piano-dad

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                  👍
                  • S
                    S
                    Steve Miller
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                    #13

                    😕

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                    • Big_AlB
                      Big_AlB
                      Big_Al
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                      #14

                      Bad news. The past 2nd Trump term has seemed to me to have been like being in the trenches during a mortar barrage. Some hit at a distance and you count yourself lucky. Some hit nearby and you know where it hit. Some land on someone you know and wounds or kills them. You just wonder if one had has our name on it.

                      Big Al

                      Money seems to buy the most happiness when you give it away.

                      Why does everything have to be so complicated, all in the name of convenience. -ShiroKuro

                      A lifetime of experience will change a person. If it doesn't, then you're already dead inside. -MarkJ

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                      • Big_AlB Big_Al

                        Bad news. The past 2nd Trump term has seemed to me to have been like being in the trenches during a mortar barrage. Some hit at a distance and you count yourself lucky. Some hit nearby and you know where it hit. Some land on someone you know and wounds or kills them. You just wonder if one had has our name on it.

                        Big Al

                        ShiroKuroS
                        ShiroKuroS
                        ShiroKuro
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #15

                        @Big_Al said:

                        The past 2nd Trump term has seemed to me to have been like being in the trenches during a mortar barrage. Some hit at a distance and you count yourself lucky. Some hit nearby and you know where it hit. Some land on someone you know and wounds or kills them. You just wonder if one had has our name on it.

                        Sadly, this feels very, very accurate as a way to describe how things are!

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                        • Big_AlB Big_Al

                          Bad news. The past 2nd Trump term has seemed to me to have been like being in the trenches during a mortar barrage. Some hit at a distance and you count yourself lucky. Some hit nearby and you know where it hit. Some land on someone you know and wounds or kills them. You just wonder if one had has our name on it.

                          Big Al

                          D
                          D
                          Daniel
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #16

                          @Big_Al said:

                          Bad news. The past 2nd Trump term has seemed to me to have been like being in the trenches during a mortar barrage. Some hit at a distance and you count yourself lucky. Some hit nearby and you know where it hit. Some land on someone you know and wounds or kills them. You just wonder if one had has our name on it.

                          Big Al

                          What a perfect description.

                          'But as they said in one of the later Rocky movies, "Time...it's undefeated.".-- Mik

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                          • MikM
                            MikM
                            Mik
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #17

                            There's another side to this. I don't know about any of the programs mentioned here, but I've been working in medical research for four years and there is a whole lot of research that, knowing what is available in hospital information systems, is doomed from the start. Cannot possibly produce the expected result. The data simply does not exist. Maybe the vetting process needs to be looked at from an IT perspective.

                            I hate to see it affect my friends, but there are two sides to that coin.

                            “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
                            ― Douglas Adams

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                            • C
                              C
                              CHAS
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                              #18

                              Don't think the headline many want to see will come this month. sigh

                              Illegitimi non carborundum

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                              • ShiroKuroS ShiroKuro

                                Well, it finally happened to me. I knew it would happen eventually. You-know-who axed a grant program I had applied to. They were supposed to announce the results at the beginning of September. As the days came and went and there was no announcement, I started to suspect this would happen.

                                He announced a new “pocket rescission" package on Friday. Although the announcement doesn’t name the program we applied to, apparently it’s been canceled because it’s in the “Ed funding for woke international education” category, listed here:

                                https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/09/president-trump-takes-historic-action-to-eliminate-wasteful-and-harmful-spending/

                                I spent the better part of the summer preparing this grant application, I am (was) the project lead for this project that would have had a 6-digit figure budget (a huge and ambitious project in my field, which doesn’t need expensive equipment or labs, so project funding is generally much more modest than in stem fields, so the project we proposed was a huge deal and would have been a sizing for the research I do).

                                I would rather have had the project rejected than the entire program canceled because of this *sshat’s idiotic policies.

                                I knew we shouldn’t have applied for a federal grant under this administration. What a huge f*cking waste of time that was.

                                Dammit.

                                D
                                D
                                Daniel
                                wrote on last edited by Daniel
                                #19

                                SK,

                                I am very sorry this happened and especially after all the work you did in preparation as the lead and considering the size and scope of the project in your field.

                                "Woke" was the pretext for a different Republican politician ruining my alma mater beyond recognition.

                                Again, I am very sorry.

                                'But as they said in one of the later Rocky movies, "Time...it's undefeated.".-- Mik

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                                • D Daniel

                                  SK,

                                  I am very sorry this happened and especially after all the work you did in preparation as the lead and considering the size and scope of the project in your field.

                                  "Woke" was the pretext for a different Republican politician ruining my alma mater beyond recognition.

                                  Again, I am very sorry.

                                  ShiroKuroS
                                  ShiroKuroS
                                  ShiroKuro
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #20

                                  @Daniel thank you. It’s really frustrating.

                                  Also, would you mind editing your post so that it doesn’t quote me like that? I might want to go back and delete this in the future, since it’s kind of personal.

                                  Thank you in advance!

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                                  • ShiroKuroS ShiroKuro

                                    @Daniel thank you. It’s really frustrating.

                                    Also, would you mind editing your post so that it doesn’t quote me like that? I might want to go back and delete this in the future, since it’s kind of personal.

                                    Thank you in advance!

                                    AxtremusA
                                    AxtremusA
                                    Axtremus
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #21

                                    @ShiroKuro said:

                                    I might want to go back and delete this in the future, since it’s kind of personal.

                                    Darn, after reading what @mik posted earlier, I was ready to ask you to post your grant application here so we can judge whether your proposal is worthy of our hard earned tax dollars (as opposed to those woke carp doomed-to-fail-from-the-start projects that @mik wrote about). I guess that won’t happen now. 🤷

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                                    • MikM
                                      MikM
                                      Mik
                                      wrote on last edited by
                                      #22

                                      I just got assigned to a newly NIH funded study yesterday, so there has to some sort of winnowing going on.

                                      “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
                                      ― Douglas Adams

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                                      • AxtremusA Axtremus

                                        @ShiroKuro said:

                                        I might want to go back and delete this in the future, since it’s kind of personal.

                                        Darn, after reading what @mik posted earlier, I was ready to ask you to post your grant application here so we can judge whether your proposal is worthy of our hard earned tax dollars (as opposed to those woke carp doomed-to-fail-from-the-start projects that @mik wrote about). I guess that won’t happen now. 🤷

                                        ShiroKuroS
                                        ShiroKuroS
                                        ShiroKuro
                                        wrote on last edited by
                                        #23

                                        @Axtremus 🤣 🤣 🤣

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                                        • MikM Mik

                                          I just got assigned to a newly NIH funded study yesterday, so there has to some sort of winnowing going on.

                                          ShiroKuroS
                                          ShiroKuroS
                                          ShiroKuro
                                          wrote on last edited by
                                          #24

                                          @Mik said:

                                          some sort of winnowing going on

                                          I feel like that's some next-level euphamizing to describe the way Trump operates.

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