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DOGE cut this scientist's job. Here's what she's doing now

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published May 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM EDT

Tens of thousands of researchers are out of work amid President Trump’s ongoing purge of the federal workforce.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Peggy Hall, a biologist who lost her job at the National Institutes of Health in February, and Virginia Gewin, a freelance reporter who has written for Nature about how recently fired researchers are picking up the pieces.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.