Leading with the DOD report on military labs losing expertise is a good angle imho. The former White House aide's admission that cynicism about scientific output drove the moves is a notable addition to the record.

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This is a good summary of the admin-wide actions affecting science. The piece mentions the decline in PhD students shortly after, but I think the throttling of the legal immigration pipeline—H1-B, OPT, scrutiny on J-1 visas, etc.—also deserves a spot as a fourth pillar.

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I'll add that articles like this one in Nature too often focus on "can it be done," rather than "what can go wrong if it can be done." The Gee-Whiz aspect is a pit that so much science journalism falls into. It tuirns the Kantian imperative "If you should you can" on its head --

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Quite wild to pair the sun blocking VC crowd with the space-based night-light entrepreneurs… bsky.app/profile/drka...

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It's strange coming back from two weeks at WHOI talking ocean instrumentation & deep-submergence and diving back into DSM work. Beyond anything else, there's this naive optimism that the technology will just work, while everyone with expertise in deep ocean tech is going "oh you sweet summer child".

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