{"id":45391,"date":"2026-06-14T08:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=45391"},"modified":"2026-06-14T08:06:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:06:32","slug":"mit-president-why-so-many-optimistic-scientists-are-losing-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=45391","title":{"rendered":"MIT president: Why so many optimistic scientists are losing heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/05\/27\/science-funding-derailed-breakthroughs\/?ICID=ref_fark\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0527kornbluthscience-1024x576-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:201px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis erosion of our strength is a loss for the nation,\u201d writes MIT President Sally Kornbluth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2026\/05\/26\/opinion\/science-funding-cuts-mit\">MIT president: Why so many optimistic scientists are losing heart<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis erosion of our strength is a loss for the nation,\u201d writes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-45391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-science","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45394,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45391\/revisions\/45394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}