Darby Saxbe's research on brain changes in fathers faces potential funding challenges due to scrutiny aimed at diversity initiatives by the National Science Foundation. Her study seeks to include diverse participants beyond affluent white fathers to enhance understanding of parenting impacts. However, the NSF's examination of grant proposals referencing diversity terms reflects a broader political strategy to limit funding for DEI-related research, a shift that many in the scientific community view as unprecedented and harmful to meaningful scientific exploration.
"If you want to understand the brain and biology changes of fathers, you don't necessarily want to only look at white affluent fathers who are hanging out around a university..."
"This kind of scrutiny, along with other actions of the administration so far, represent to many scientists an extreme move to exert more presidential control over the kinds of science that gets funded..."
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