Mike Mears in Podcasts
personA person who is a biologist and an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
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It's stressful out there if you're a researcher. And Mike was one of the few willing to talk to me about it. It feels as if everyone is kind of scared.
Mike is one of thousands of researchers all around the country who are suddenly at risk of losing their jobs because the Trump administration is cutting or threatening to cut funding for their research. In some cases, huge pieces of it.
This is Planet Money from NPR. Mike Mears is a biologist and an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He runs his own lab. Does everybody wear a white lab coat?