DOGE

AXIS lost twenty team members to DOGE buyouts, missed a budget deadline after the shutdown, and quietly died after a decade of work. One Harvard researcher in the thread watched a study get flagged because it "engendered a robust hemodynamic response" — a keyword match.

Then a computational-biology PhD who left the field for software said something the room didn't expect: US science actually does need some cuts. The argument over how it was done, versus whether it should have been, runs through 800 comments.