[mosesbp]

If you think this is cool/valuable, I just want to point out that this work is being paid for by the DOE Office of Science (BES division), uses the NSF National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, and is using money from an NSF CAREER award (“Acknowledgments” section under “Funding” in the actual paper [1]). The former is facing a cut of 14% [2] (The Office of Science overall is seeing a similar cut), the second is facing a 40% cut [3], and the latter appears to be destroyed entirely (no money requested) [4] in documents released by these agencies for FY2026 (executive budget).

This research is also supported by Chinese funding agencies, who I imagine will not be engaging such senseless hamstringing of their national scientific organs…

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr6202

[2] See page 5 of https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/doe-fy-20...

[3] See page “Facilities - 5” of https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF-FY26-CJ-Entir...

[4] See page “Summary Tables - 1” of the link in [3].

[sharpshadow]

The focus for the next decades is set for war, the cuts everywhere are not random. I doubt that there can be done much in the near future.

[arresin]

When commenters say stuff like this I never know if they mean grants that went to funding utter taxpayer theft like this: https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/national-science-foundatio...

Or real science.

So I just tune out.

[mosesbp]

Your link seems unrelated to the topic of this article? I gave the line items for the research conducted in the OP.

A good faith reading of your comment leads me to guess you might take issue with a small number of unrelated NSF CAREER awards going to research you don’t find worthwhile (such as those alluded to in your link). But the vast majority of CAREER awards fund what I would imagine you would consider “real science” [1], like the content of OP.

So please do not tune out!

[1] You can count them here in the list of all CAREER awards: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/advancedSearchResult?PIId=&P...

[mecsred]

Considering they provided multiple references to exactly what they were talking about, what gave you issues? They're not talking about what you linked, and they are talking about what they linked.