None planned yet, but we're now at the point in my immigration status (US and Canadian passports in hand) that cross-border activities are again possible!

Wait, it's off the market? Who bought it? Someone from the business college I bet.

We're going to be too big to fail soon enough 😀

Excellent. Soon this idea will have achieved critical mass.

I'm not a regular middle-aged professor with a part time university administration appointment. I'm a cool middle-aged professor with a part time university administration appointment.

(literally actually how I teach. But I'm the real deal. I have a nose ring. A NOSE RING. LIKE REBELIOUS CHARACTERS DO IN 1998 LIFETIME MOVIES TO SHOW HOW PUNK THEY ARE.)

So: In 2017, Congress made this happen:

NIH: Proposed 22% cut --> 9% increase
NSF: Proposed 11% cut --> 4% increase
NOAA: Proposed 16% cut --> 4% increase

Obviously, 2025 is not 2017. A lot is diff now. But still:

💰 Congress, not WH, sets budgets.

📞 Public support & calls to Congress matter.