What the NSF is doing this week is damaging *generations* of scientific researchers and American investments in science. Billions of US tax payer dollars in investment, being thrown away, because of a fucking fishing expedition that is intended to terrorize and set the stage for a real witch hunt.
31.01.2025 00:14 — 👍 774 🔁 369 💬 22 📌 10The only equity ruining everything is private equity
31.01.2025 00:32 — 👍 747 🔁 172 💬 9 📌 2the headline is not “trump blames deadly plane crash on DEI” but “trump seizes on deadly plane crash to attack minorities”
30.01.2025 16:45 — 👍 14094 🔁 3258 💬 219 📌 100If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not
31.01.2025 21:16 — 👍 9439 🔁 2630 💬 46 📌 62Unelected agents of a oligarch have seized core services of the state without legal sanction or authorization; yes, that's a coup
31.01.2025 23:30 — 👍 6428 🔁 2391 💬 97 📌 64if a major politician held an emergency rally about the current ongoing coup by the richest man in the world, I think people would go to it. Shit is well and truly fucked. I can think of a couple of people who should do that right now.
31.01.2025 23:00 — 👍 28789 🔁 4684 💬 627 📌 302Your daughter has died serving her country, and now you have to hide her identity because the President and his supporters will predictably scapegoat her for the accident.
01.02.2025 01:26 — 👍 7392 🔁 1897 💬 144 📌 58
People surprised that university admins are ready to throw people under the bus haven’t really been paying attention to how universities work
Now is a good time to change that
@weissmann11.bsky.social 's stellar interview on FBI and Kash Patel... if you watch nothing else: open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
31.01.2025 22:20 — 👍 407 🔁 89 💬 20 📌 7
This administration will have disastrous impacts on science and education in the U.S. this is just the start I fear. Please share far and wide. 🧪 www.npr.org/sections/sho...
28.01.2025 01:48 — 👍 116 🔁 71 💬 3 📌 2
NSF's Undergraduate Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology program has been abruptly archived. The deadline was tomorrow. People were submitting proposals.
This program is designed to support the American scientific workforce. I cannot see the point of this level of self-sabotage.
36 deg F above the average today in Fairbanks. It reached 47 earlier this month and was the warmest on record.
26.01.2025 05:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.
25.01.2025 02:30 — 👍 64109 🔁 12586 💬 665 📌 356