[robwwilliams]

Bravo for this start at unionizing. Important step forward—-finally.

I made $13,500 as a postdoc at Yale (New Haven CT) from 1983 to 1985. $75/month went back to Yale for family health. Even the rent was $525/month.

That scales to roughly $38,070 per year today. And my pay as a grad student at UC Davis was $325/month for my last three years. No taxes—whoopee. Talk about delayed gratification.

Agreed: NIEHS is in North Carolina. NIA is in Baltimore. More of this please. And yes, this does engender strong local and state support. ORNL in Tennessee is a case in point.

East Tennessee has Oak Ridge National Labs and the region around Knoxville is gorgeous. So why not move the National Eye Institute (NEI) and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) there ;-) in this Zoom day-and-age.