Sean Carroll

attorneys, especially ones who have been working on the various felony cases against him at the federal level. He either fired or sent home or convinced to leave a bunch of people at the National Security Council, the director of the federal – Aviation administration, people at the State Department, people in the foreign aid office, there's a 90-day pause on all foreign assistance.

attorneys, especially ones who have been working on the various felony cases against him at the federal level. He either fired or sent home or convinced to leave a bunch of people at the National Security Council, the director of the federal – Aviation administration, people at the State Department, people in the foreign aid office, there's a 90-day pause on all foreign assistance.

Not all foreign assistance, I shouldn't say that. Israel and Egypt are still getting their assistance, but everywhere else, cut off. Ukraine, elsewhere, heartbreaking stories of people trying to, you know, U.S. workers in Africa and elsewhere working to save people in various ways, just having their funds cut off.

Not all foreign assistance, I shouldn't say that. Israel and Egypt are still getting their assistance, but everywhere else, cut off. Ukraine, elsewhere, heartbreaking stories of people trying to, you know, U.S. workers in Africa and elsewhere working to save people in various ways, just having their funds cut off.

There was this weird event where there was a memo that went out that said all federal grants are hereby suspended for a while. That would be just enormously destructive to the country. You know, grants, maybe the word is bad. I don't know. Maybe people don't understand what the word means. It's not like a present.

There was this weird event where there was a memo that went out that said all federal grants are hereby suspended for a while. That would be just enormously destructive to the country. You know, grants, maybe the word is bad. I don't know. Maybe people don't understand what the word means. It's not like a present.

It's money that is used to do important things like get science done among other things. So then another memo went out saying – no, the previous memo had been rescinded because they realized how bad it would be. But then the presidential spokesperson, the White House press secretary said the substance of the memo is still true even though we rescinded the memo itself.

It's money that is used to do important things like get science done among other things. So then another memo went out saying – no, the previous memo had been rescinded because they realized how bad it would be. But then the presidential spokesperson, the White House press secretary said the substance of the memo is still true even though we rescinded the memo itself.

If this doesn't make any sense to you, join the club. It doesn't make any sense to anyone else either. Science has been dramatically affected. This is my own bailiwick. All grant reviews at National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health and elsewhere have been suspended indefinitely.

If this doesn't make any sense to you, join the club. It doesn't make any sense to anyone else either. Science has been dramatically affected. This is my own bailiwick. All grant reviews at National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health and elsewhere have been suspended indefinitely.

I have a grant proposal in, hoping to fund some research into quantum gravity and cosmology, but that has been put on hold. If it ever comes back, who knows? That's a minor inconvenience for me. The more important thing is that they're not paying salaries to people like postdocs and grad students at the National Science Foundation, for example.

I have a grant proposal in, hoping to fund some research into quantum gravity and cosmology, but that has been put on hold. If it ever comes back, who knows? That's a minor inconvenience for me. The more important thing is that they're not paying salaries to people like postdocs and grad students at the National Science Foundation, for example.

For the grad students, I am told it is not such a big deal because if you're a NSF fellow, if you have a fellowship from the National Science Foundation, they allocate your yearly salary in one lump sum at the beginning of the year, and then the university doles it out monthly or whatever, so they should be okay, at least until next year. Postdocs don't have it that good.

For the grad students, I am told it is not such a big deal because if you're a NSF fellow, if you have a fellowship from the National Science Foundation, they allocate your yearly salary in one lump sum at the beginning of the year, and then the university doles it out monthly or whatever, so they should be okay, at least until next year. Postdocs don't have it that good.

They have a monthly salary, if they're NSF-funded, that is just not coming. They're not getting paid. Postdoc life is not easy, right? You are bouncing around. You have a three-year job, typically, at most, and then you have to go somewhere else. You're living paycheck to paycheck, and those paychecks are not coming, so this is going to be catastrophic for them personally.

They have a monthly salary, if they're NSF-funded, that is just not coming. They're not getting paid. Postdoc life is not easy, right? You are bouncing around. You have a three-year job, typically, at most, and then you have to go somewhere else. You're living paycheck to paycheck, and those paychecks are not coming, so this is going to be catastrophic for them personally.

Of course, it's also catastrophic for US science as a whole. Why in the world would the best people from outside the US think of coming here with all of this obvious chaos and dysfunction that we are exhibiting to the rest of the world? Anyway, I could go on for hours about this. I don't want to do that.

Of course, it's also catastrophic for US science as a whole. Why in the world would the best people from outside the US think of coming here with all of this obvious chaos and dysfunction that we are exhibiting to the rest of the world? Anyway, I could go on for hours about this. I don't want to do that.

But there's one other thing I just can't help but mention because I'm sure that the people of the future are just going to think there's no way that that actually happened. We had fires in Los Angeles not long ago, devastating fires. I used to live in L.A. and I know many people who either – had to evacuate. Some came very close to losing their houses.

But there's one other thing I just can't help but mention because I'm sure that the people of the future are just going to think there's no way that that actually happened. We had fires in Los Angeles not long ago, devastating fires. I used to live in L.A. and I know many people who either – had to evacuate. Some came very close to losing their houses.