Uh-oh.

[beamjockey]

Trib: Lab fiscal 'disaster' feared, U.S. cuts would hit Fermilab's research

Daily Herald: Federal budget so far not good for Fermilab

Kane County Chronicle: Fermi layoffs possible

Aurora Beacon News: Fermi faces funding crisis

Overview in Science: A Budget Too Small

Wired: US Budget Spells New Troubles For Next-Gen Particle Accelerator

Comments

[maiac.livejournal.com]

Crap.

Yet another reason to hate the Busheviks.

[mbcrui.livejournal.com]

That sucks. Hope it changes...

[tandw.livejournal.com]

This sounds depressingly familiar...didn't that one-month shutdown idea come up a year or so ago?

If things get really bad at Fermi, we're starting to look for more nuclear safety folks here at Argonne. The only current posted opening is lead worker, but more are in the works.

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

Your posting appears just above this posting in my friends list, petitioning for a reversal in UK PP budget cuts (http://e-pepys.livejournal.com/33300.html)

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Not good.

[carolf.livejournal.com]

Science? Who needs shmience?

Now that we have the Creation Museum what do we need a "parts sellerater", whatever that means, anyway?

All we gotta research now is what the apocalypse will be like!

*sigh*

[sraun]

Ouch! Good luck!

[dirktiede.livejournal.com]

This is terrible news! From the look of it, science is getting hammered all around in this budget.

It sounds like the lab will have to be closed after the Tev shutdown if nothing is done. I hope someone can change some minds. Is there anything we can do? I'm spreading the word where I can, at least.

[rono-60103.livejournal.com]

It looks like hard science is getting hit (too).

Believe it or not, defense research at another national lab is also being hit. I think my sister will be safe from the layoffs announced at Sandia. But others are loosing their jobs, and not just through attrition. I wonder how the other national labs are impacted?

Every time someone in Washington thinks that they need to spend less money, they cut things that matter only to people who don't (or cannot) vote for them. I wonder if the loss of the long-time (and powerful) representative in Washington whose district, I believe, included Fermi, has anything to do with this.

[tandw.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how much Denny Hastert brought home for Fermi; I associated him more with Caterpillar and transportation research than anything else. Kind of like how Judy Biggert (her district includes Argonne Nat'l Lab, she's on the House Committee on Science and Technology, and Subcommittees on Energy and Environment & on Technology and Innovation) didn't seem to get us very much.

OTOH, Pete Domenici is a strong advocate for Sandia and Los Alamos, and Larry Craig does the same for Idaho Nat'l Lab, so it's not always that way.

[rono-60103.livejournal.com]

But, alas, Domenici is also retiring at the end of his term. Of course, I suspect that the perspective replacements (Wilson, Peirce, Chavez or Udal most likely) may advocate for Sandia and Los Alamos as much as Domenici, but whoever ends up winning will be a first term senator and won't have as much influence as a long-time national player.

(For my notes on the New Mexico situation, you can see my journal entry.

Who knew?

[isherempress.livejournal.com]

Gosh, Bill, do you suppose the lobster medallions on the lunch menu had anything to do with the budget crisis? Not since I was in the Air Force have I seen such a lovely menu....

Re: Who knew?

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I usually just eat a sandwich.

Re: Who knew?

[isherempress.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. I didn't really think it was *your* fault. Take heart, friend: I hear there's a renewed interest in physics, due to physicists who put their lectures up on their university website, YouTube, or similar site. I have confidence that other opportunities will come your way, should the worse-case scenario come to pass.

[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

Dang . . .

[tredecimal.livejournal.com]

I have nothing useful to comment here except that it's nice to read 15 comments viewing this as the bad thing it is and not one "who needs particle accelerators when we have (insert social problem that will never go away with any amount of $ thrown at it)?!". I get so sick of those.