Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou, Vani Pariyadath, Natalie Aviles, and Ian Mullins, writing in Academe Magazine: “Over the past year and a half, we have witnessed censorship of researchers and an ideological takeover of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other federal funders, culminating most recently with the proposed Office of Management and Budget (OMB) revised rule tightening political control of all federal grants and contracts. Meanwhile, mass layoffs and an increasingly hostile work environment drove significant depletion of the federal workforce. Social sciences, public health, and climate science may be among the hardest hit so far, but the dire situation extends to all domains of academic research.”