Michelle Thaller

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577 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · Running Out of Matter with Michelle Thaller · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

But then when they make you permanent, that's harder to do.

And so, yeah, by probationary, that doesn't mean that anybody, nothing was wrong.

These are the best people in the world.

Well, I mean, one of the physics journals I remember had a full page ad from the country of Denmark saying, you know, come to a place where facts still matter.

Right.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

No, I mean, other countries are on it.

And yeah, I mean, Europe is a beneficiary.

Canada and China.

I mean, China as well.

I have a lot of colleagues that got offers.

It's like, well, bring your whole lab over all your graduate students, like you said, funding.

It's so unnecessary.

I mean, the thing that has been so tragic about this is that science research in the United States is a low-budget item.

Oh, my God.

We do not spend a lot of money on this already.

I mean, the thing that I was so proud of, I mean, I worked for sort of the science part of NASA, doing all the Earth science, the Mars rovers, the Webb telescope.

about 110 active missions at any given time.

Each of those missions employs thousands of people, in some cases, tens of thousands of people across the country, across the world.

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