Even when I started grad school, armed with a NSF GRFP like the student in the beginning of this story, finding an advisor felt like being on the Bachelor, or maybe Survivor.

Even when I started grad school, armed with a NSF GRFP like the student in the beginning of this story, finding an advisor felt like being on the Bachelor, or maybe Survivor. I can't imagine what it's like now.

Amid federal funding cuts, first-year grad students, even those with funding, can't find labs that will take them.

From @STAT's Jonathan Wosen, who also knows this scramble firsthand:

https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/30/first-year-phd-students-squeezed-tighter-research-funding/

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