This would have been me, if I wasn't contracting for NASA and instead worked for them directly. Youngblood "technically postdoc"-level physicist, I'd be on "probationary status".

Wife got her two weeks on valentine's day (when your boss asks for your resume...), she's a federal contractor software engineer. My funding sources will shift, but I think I'll probably be OK, for the most part. A lot of my coworkers will disappear. More than half of our department are international scientists on visas and grants, and probably within a year or two, at the most, they'll be gone. Cool.

People have pretty much no idea how big this is. I mean the Trump administration's economic people have said that they want to expand the labor supply. That means a recession. I mean I'm not really sure why we have to put this together on hubski for each other, probably because the media are like "hello here is what trump said today and do NOT expect me to add up numbers to calculate wild figures like a running tally of this federal carnage. ...Anyway. Three weeks ago, a small, little-known branch of the government called 'USAID'.."

So guys, uhh, it's just me and the other networks of people I got (they're pretty good tho), and you fine folks. And your networks. Institutionally, this is looking like... I dunno, we've just lost the sauce entirely as a nation. Bummer.