The recent cuts to grant overhead by NIH reminds me that among the many casualties of the slash-and-burn policies of the new administration will be the careers of a generation of junior academic STEM researchers, for whom grants are the lifeblood of establishing their early research trajectories and future tenure cases. Without federal grants, scientists don't have the resources to hire PhD students, build up their labs, and pursue their research agendas.

If the #science community truly wants to make our work more accessible to policymakers & the public + increase support for & trust in our research, we shouldn't publish our work behind ridiculously expensive paywalls that very few people can access.