"Soon after US President Donald Trump came to office in January, his administration began cutting funding for scientific research in areas it sees as related to 'woke' ideologies. Grants related to transgender health care, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and health disparities in minority groups have been some of the most targeted. It's impossible to know what the impact of these cuts will be on the science of the future: the research that might have emerged but that will now not exist."
"A machine-learning analysis by Nature Index attempts to give a sense of the value of the research that might have been lost, by trying to reproduce the rationale the National Institutes of Health (NIH) used to cancel grants, then applying that method to science that was in the pipeline around ten years ago. There are, of course, limitations to the insights that such an analysis can provide."
Funding cuts have targeted grants on transgender health care, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), and health disparities in minority groups. A machine-learning analysis by Nature Index reproduced cancellation criteria and applied that method to grants from about ten years ago. The analysis is constrained by a different political context a decade ago and by a relatively small training dataset that captures patterns in current cancellations. Some highly impactful research, including advances in human-genome mapping and cancer-screening techniques, would have been at risk of not being funded under a similar cancellation process. NIH and NSF cuts total at least US$4 billion so far.
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