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Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.
edit: to a point of course, I don't want them pushing their agenda. Put money in an independent charity.
There will be a sudden and sharp decline in the amount of research produced going forward, until (hopefully) a new administration can make funding important scientific research a priority again.
Looks like they received $1 billion in private + government grants, so upper end would be 15%?
> The University ended fiscal year 2024 with an operating surplus of $45 million compared to $186 million in fiscal year 2023, on an operating revenue base of $6.5 billion.
Wow!
"At least 350 Harvard medical grants were terminated by the Trump administration." https://abcnews.go.com/US/350-harvard-medical-grants-termina...
"At Grim Town Hall, Harvard Medical School Leaders Tell Staff to Expect Layoffs and Far-Reaching Cuts" https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/16/trump-hms-cuts/
"Snapshots from front lines of federal research funding cuts" https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/07/snapshots-of-...
So, 100% cut compared to 2024, or maybe expected funding drastically increased compared to 2024?
> The administration then said it was withholding $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contract value to the institution.
This doesn't math, but close enough I suppose.