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2026-07-06 16:43 UTC
@mattblaze@federate.social @SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange I'm at a massive R1 state university and ALL PhD students at my department are grant funded by their PIs or have their own funding. If I don't get grants, I don't have PhD students.
Grants often run only 3 years but students often take 5+ to graduate in my field. Piecing together funding is getting harder then it was in the BeforeTimes from what I understand.
I just graduated my first PhD student and my current cohort should be done in the next year or so. Frankly I'm not sure I'll take on more students now that I have tenure. Between the burnout and the grant crunch, I'm feeling a bit fried.
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@mattblaze@federate.social 2026-07-06 17:36
@ktoddbrown@social.coop @SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange I wish I had more encouraging words. I’m sure it will get better eventually, but the timeframe itself is uncertain, and the disruption until it does - to science and to careers - will be massive.