US Government Lost More Than 10,000 STEM PhDs Last Year

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By BeauHDJan 28, 2026, 3:30 am80 ptsTrending
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Science.org: Some 10,109 doctoral-trained experts in science and related fields left their jobs last year as President Donald Trump dramatically shrank the overall federal workforce. That exodus was only 3% of the 335,192 federal workers who exited last year but…

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