As a physics journalist, it is fairly wild to see the names of the PIs with terminated grants: Misha Lukin, Philip Kim, Lisa Randall, Subir Sachdev, John Doyle...
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To the extent that Trump / Vance have a strategic vision for the US-UK relationship, it is not to strengthen the UK. The vision is to weaken Europe by severing UK from the continent. Trump-Vance true "special relationship" is with Russia. Russia desperately fears UK-EU unity 2/x

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

Happy to stand, partially, corrected. After Harvard's initial response seemed to imply that they bend the knee just as Columbia has done, they now make it clear that they will not accept interference with their core responsibilities. Hopefully other universities will follow this example.

Perhaps it is hard to get these numbers but there seemed to be more researchers than in the past who submitted an abstract but ultimately decided not to attend. Of course, I only looked at a few sessions so my impressions might be wrong based on small sample size but APS surely knows.

Anything known already about the attendance numbers at the recent APS meeting? Apart from the issues mentioned in the article I would imagine that scientists from countries constantly attacked by the current administration are souring on traveling to the US anyways.

Yes. That’s what I meant. You don’t see what you expect from basic Majorana theory simply by looking at the data. It seems to me that the TGP is put on top just to distract from what is obvious. Smoke and mirrors …