Suzanne Autrey, a first-generation university student and now assistant professor at Northern Illinois University, faces challenges in her academic career due to potential federal budget cuts affecting research grants. Many early-career researchers are vulnerable, depending on federal money and living paycheck to paycheck. With stalled grant applications and job security concerns, some are contemplating leaving academia. Economist Donna Ginther emphasizes that disruption harms young scientists, potentially shifting the future landscape of U.S. science and jeopardizing the next generation of researchers.
"I'm dead in the water if I can't get one," she says.
"Disruption and uncertainty are the enemy of science," says Donna Ginther, an economist at the University of Kansas.
"I know first-hand that a degree to them doesn't just change their lives," Autrey says. "It changes their families' lives."
"Early-career scientists are the future," she says.
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