Dan Visioni

Clearly didn’t work on him

Me, a super smart immortal wizard thousands of years old: mmmmh I wonder what that means

That is not remotely how you use standard deviation.

Release the Annatar files

Did u not read his manifesto David

Yeah pretty suspicious with their frequent flies from Middle Earth to Valinor Island, they should publish their flight schedules…

a man with a beard and hat says it 's saruman in the water ALT: a man with a beard and hat says it 's saruman in the water

When your friends ask you to check the weather forecasts for your nice lil camping trip in the mountains and you forget and then need to shift the blame:

Elves of old be like “yes nice let’s have the biggest safest doors the dwarves can build, we’ll set the password guys don’t worry” and then write the password on a post it note on top the door like the Louvre security.

Oh so now we’re normalizing unsafe working conditions in order to get promotions for our capitalist overlords uh smh

It has warmed my hearth to see we have reached over 200 signatures here :) Thank you to everyone who has put their name down. As this is picking up steam, together with other initiatives, and with some UCAR representatives, we're trying to make sure this reaches the general public, congress & NSF.

We already have over 40 signatures from US researchers and professors supporting NSF-NCAR and telling NSF to maintain control of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputer with NCAR! Do sign and share.

Feels a lot like the goose chasing meme. Ok but what are these values that, if represented, would make science better? Because definitely there are scientists that are more or less progressive, more tech-optimist, some are degrowthers, some are liberal, some Marxist, conservative economists exist…

The most charitable interpretation would be to say “since having right-wing values represented in science is important, then it is the fault of right parties’s utter contempt for science for forsaking that chance at representation”. But I still haven’t received an answer about what are these values.

Completely arbitrary and silly (as you said)

What does he mean the axis is truncated it starts at 0?? Where should it end, at 200??

Ok but that confuses the hell out of me and I’ve been here 8 years, can you imagine how confusing it must be to Hegset?

Right, it’s not like we don’t have a counterfactual right now of both what a right-leaning public space looks like (Twitter) and what a right-leaning science institution looks like (literally every institution in the US government right now??). Is science benefiting from Dr. Oz right-leaning views?

Ok but what are the right-wing -leaning views you think would lead to better science as a whole? Currently, in nutrition, don’t you think indeed the current Health Secretary is a powerful “institution” with a specific leaning? Is nutrition as a science improved by it? How about EPA and climate?

I’m genuinely not trying to miss your point. I’m asking you earnestly both what are the specific political views missing that will get us better science (is it different views on immigration? economy? physics?) and how does one get there-or rather whose responsibility is it to ensure that happens?

More broadly: what are the left-leaning views that are predominant in “science institutions” and what bias do they produce? Is rigorous science possible in the current extremely right-leaning institutions like EPA, NIH or DOE? How does right-leaning climate science look like?

I got that. So you are objecting to the intertwining-what is unfortunate, to you, is that science is primarily done by people with a specific bias. I’m saying that it’s hard to see online spaces in which one could right now be right-leaning (whatvr that means: pro-ICE? anti-LBTQ?) and a scientist.

Didn’t you say it’s “unfortunate”? Sounds like an objection to it, to me!

You say that “left-leaning politics and science are intertwined here”. I don’t think climate physics is inherently political - yet there is only one party in the US who is hostile to me both for teaching it and for who I am as a human (a non-heterosexual immigrant). How do I dis-interwine myself?

You id-ed it as “unfortunate”, and that the consequences of that have policy implications that are “bad”. Hence one might infer that, were they scientists concerned with good policy-making, it would be their duty to stay on that platform to avoid opinionists like you from assuming they are biased?

Seeing that figure and concluding that to be less biased scientists should stay on a platform where they are constantly overwhelmed by abuse, and full of straight up nazis is an incredible form of victim blaming, especially considering the explicit attitudes of the current US government.

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Nowhere near as boring as NY

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Hey there, for now I was thinking of this as more aimed at US scientists/teachers, considering this is for NSF... but let's see where it goes :)