Science reports that the National Science Foundation has issued a 10-page memo outlining a shift toward President Donald Trump and his administration’s research priorities, many technology-focused. The outlet says NSF will devote the bulk of its resources to those priorities, retreating from its traditional support for individual researchers’ ideas and training future scientists. A user sharing the report argues that prescribing research topics encourages overcrowded fields and incremental work with low returns, and calls for scientists to have more freedom, not less.