katallen.bsky.social
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Happy Quals Day!
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In terms of the political project of defending white freedom, there is a direct line from those who fought for their right to enslave human beings to today’s reactionaries who cling to the idea that the world works best if it is dominated by wealthy white men.
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This is the April protest, yesterday’s was much more colorful!
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Nope. That was April. This was today and Boston was flooded with pride and protest.
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"OSHA's rules are written in blood."
Anyone who mocks those rules around me gets that reminder, along with a cold glare.
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Legit feel bad for those soldiers. This entire operation is not what they signed up for and the grunts get no say.
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This is how we get teenage world-saving hero teams, y’all. It’s like the fascists don’t read YA *at all*… but the kids do.
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But only actually *rich* white American kids
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This. It’s not about making more spaces for “American kids” broadly, it’s about making room for mediocre or outright unqualified kids of **wealthy** Americans. Varsity Blues here we come again
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Yet another reason to skip Newark Airport…
This is the worst timeline
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All but the last sentence of the first paragraph read like every other grant termination that has gone out recently: the (required) Broadening Participation section in NSF grants set them all up to now be labeled discriminatory against rich white boys.
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Except that the trucking industry has been desperately short handed for years — not as many people want to be long-haul truckers as in the past, and there were a lot more things to deliver. Even with the tariff-based reductions and port chaos, they’ll still be shorthanded
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It gives them an excuse to harass bilingual and non-white truck drivers.
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One of the grants in my lab (not my funding but my colleagues) got this notice, too. Good to know that “teaching children computational thinking” is no longer an NSF priority—we wouldn’t want our kids to understand computers!
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There are a ton of scholarly articles about learning losses:
scholar.google.com/scholar?q=pa...
Anecdotally, PhDs who started in 2019 are taking longer before defending. My kids’ classmates lost ground in reading and math.
All reasons to be funding research now to prevent future pandemics.
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This is extra funny because “Wizard of Oz” is what robotics research calls demonstrations where someone says the robot is autonomous but it’s being teleoperated—which is what I bet they’ll show on May 1 if they have *anything*
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I’d like to report multiple airplanes full of not “Kidnapping people off the street and sending them to a mega prison is not Loving Your Neighbor As Yourself”, please. Heck, I’d bet most of those Venezuelans are Christian (not that it should matter)
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Please also stand with Autistic adults; autism doesn’t disappear when you turn 18
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It’s infuriating seeing this. Did we lose science in 2020? Absolutely. The costs of the pandemic closures were real, learning losses at every level —-including research! But they were necessary to avoid deaths.
2025 funding cancellations are entirely an own-goal sabotage of American leadership