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The Trump administration's Threat to Scientific Research
Threat to research
SteadyWhy this scored 9
every term, weightedVelocity+0.6 / 40 max
Engagement per hour, normalized against the fastest item on its own source
Acceleration+0.0 / 25 max
Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate
Cross-source spread+0.0 / 25 max
How many independent communities are talking about the same entity
Recency+9.1 / 10 max
Decays to zero over 14 days
Saturation penalty−1.0 / 30 max
Subtracted once something is big and old — we rank what's next, not what's peaked
Composite8.7
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