The staff pushed back. People have drawn the trash that says that on the southern extreme is for all others in Rainbow, the email signature of everyone (with) the addition of pride, (others) continue to add their favorite pronouns to email, according to the source.
There was an uncomfortable feeling on the station like people never felt before, they added. The work must be completed, although people feel like the next shoe can be reduced at any time.
That discomfort expands to their own work. There are some people currently in Antarctica who are worried about losing their jobs any day, a source with the familiarity of the situation to Wired. The workers present at the station could not leave physically until October, and a mid -season shooting, or lost sponsorship, would offer a series of unique challenges.
The sources are also preparing for at least one 50 percentage of NSF budget Due to DOGE cutting. These cuts are sending scientists in Antarctica with assistants and graduates. We do not know if we can pay for graduates, a scientist said. While the research was conducted on the continent, scientists brought their discovery back to the US for processing and analysis. A lot of funding also operates scientifically: For a project that requires electricity to run detectors, scientists have paranoid, we will not be able to pay invoices for an experiment to starve data. That has not come to the results, but when the funding cycles restart in the weeks and next month, scientists are on the Tenterouts.
The sources told Wired that Germany, Canada, Spain and China have begun to take advantage of that uncertainty by hiring US scientists to focus on Antarctica.
Some foreign countries are actively recruiting my colleagues, and some have left, a scientist in Antarctica. My students are looking at the work abroad now, people have come (to the US) to do science for my whole life. Now everyone is going in a different way.
It is a great time to see if anyone wants to jump train, another scientist in Antarctica. I am very worried about the brain bleeding of the hired scholars, or the students are removed.
The damage caused by the introduction of scientific budget (Antarctica) like this will reach the last generation, another said.
During the Doge's cutting process to the Federal Government, representatives said that if something needs to be brought back, it is possible. In some cases, the reversal happened: the US Department of Agriculture said it Accidentally shooting Employees work to prevent the spread of water flu and are trying to recover them.
But in Antarctica, a reverse will not necessarily work. One of the really scary things about this is that if the program budget in Antarctica is cut, they will quickly reach the point where they cannot even keep the station open, scientific projects are much less, a scientist in Antarctica tells Wired. If the south pole (station) is closed, basically it is almost impossible to bring it back. Everything will freeze and be buried in snow. And some other countries may immediately take over.