Not sure who needs to hear this, but #science cuts don’t just affect researchers.
They ripple out to the food we eat, the air we breathe, the safety of our water, and our health.
This is personal for you. Me. All of us.
And these #science cuts ripple out to the inventions that drive the economy.
Essentially all of the economic gains and wondrous things we've made in the last half century (and there really are a lot) have come from science investment (in #NSF, #NIH, #DOE, #DOD).
Also, very few (almost none) have started from intentional #TranslationalScience. They almost all start from basic curiosity-driven science, which turn out to have applications no one ever expected.