Saturday, July 5, 2025

What's going on?

 Things are going sideways at Los Alamos. Any news at LLNL?

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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

This would be interesting to hear, I’ve applied to both LLNL and LANL many months ago and suddenly both labs called me for interviews in the past 2 weeks. Maybe I should go the LLNL route with this tidbit.

Anonymous said...

According to the Big D, everything is going great at LANL. Well, that may be the view from the 7th floor of the NSSB, at least.

Anonymous said...

Rumors are of big cuts to science funding. Mason said that the overall lab budget is stable or even going up but that funding for science is going down. Lots of rumors that the cuts could be 30% in the science section and implications that the staffing is going to have decrease as much. Anybody have any idea of this number or how this could come about. I read the BBB section on the NNSA and it was hard to figure out what exactly it is saying.

However not to be too conspiratorial but did Project 2025 say anything about the DOE/NNSA labs?

Anonymous said...

Project 2025 clearly vilifies science and education!

Anonymous said...

I thought NNSA is getting a 24% increase in the new budget.

Anonymous said...

"This would be interesting to hear, I’ve applied to both LLNL and LANL many months ago and suddenly both labs called me for interviews in the past 2 weeks. Maybe I should go the LLNL route with this tidbit."

The budget may well be going up at LANL so it is not surprising that more people are getting hired. It all depends on the job you are doing. The issue is that certain portion of the budget are going up and certain portions are going down some managers are now saying that it is clear that just moving people around is not feasible in all cases so things are going to get rough. All I know is that someone pointed out that the Director said that the science portion of the lab is going down but gave go details.

Anonymous said...

"However not to be too conspiratorial but did Project 2025 say anything about the DOE/NNSA labs?"

Yes, it says that NNSA labs should only do nukes. No science or even DOD technology development, for that matter.

Anonymous said...

Rumors are that publishing scientific work and doing science just got much harder at LANL.

Anonymous said...

Bye bye National Labs! The MAGA administration is implementing the oligarchs 's project 2025 agenda which we know is anti-science.
Our only hope against complete destruction is for Democrats to regain the majorities in Congress next year. Otherwise, the labs will be a shell of a lab.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, the Department of Education should handle education. Wait. What?

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