Staff members have already rejected. “People have painted waste bins saying” Antarctica is for everyone “in Rainbow, email signatures for people [have] Adds of pride, [others] Continue to add favorite pronouns to emails, ”explains the source.
“There is a feeling of discomfort on the station like people have never felt it before,” they add. “The work must still be done, even if people have the impression that the next shoe can fall at any time.”
This discomfort extends to their own employment of employment. “There are people currently at the South Pole who fear losing their jobs every day now,” said Wired, a source of familiarity in the situation. The workers present at the station are unable to go physically before October, and a dismissal in the middle of the season, or loss of funding, would present a unique set of challenges.
Sources are also preparing for at least one 50% reduction in the NSF budget Due to Doges Cups. These cuts send scientists in Antarctica with assistants and graduate students who are unleashed. “We did not know if we could pay for graduate students,” said a scientist. Although research is carried out on the continent, scientists bring their results to the United States to treat and analyze. A large part of the funding also exploits science itself: for a project that requires electricity to manage detectors, the scientist “was paranoid, we would not be able to literally pay invoices for a hungry experience for data”. This has not yet materialized, but as the financing cycles restart in the weeks and months to come, scientists are on tent accounts.
Sources indicate to Wired that Germany, Canada, Spain and China have already started to take advantage of this uncertainty by recruiting American scientists focused on Antarctica.
“Foreign countries actively recruit my colleagues, and some have already left,” said an Antarctic scientist. “My students are looking for jobs abroad now … people come [to the US] make science all my life. Now people go the other way.
“This is the perfect time to see if someone wants to skip the ship,” said another Antarctic scientist. “I am concerned about a cerebral leak of titular academics or students who are expressed.”
“The damage caused by the emptying of [Antarctic] The scientific budget like this goes to the latest generations, ”explains another.
Throughout the Doge cups in the federal government, the representatives said that if something should be brought back, it could be. In some cases, inversions have already occurred: the American department of agriculture said it accidentally Staff members working to prevent the propagation of the bird flu and try to rehire them.
But in Antarctica, a reversal will not necessarily work. “One of the really frightening things on this subject is that if the budget of the Antarctic program is cut, then they will come to the point very quickly where they cannot even keep the station open, and even less scientific projects,” an Antarctic scientist in Wired. “If the South Pole [station] is closed, it is almost impossible to bring it back. Everything will freeze and will be buried in the snow. And another country will probably immediately take over.
