Very hard to imagine any social science that would not be flagged by NSF's new censorship regime - ThreadSky

donmoyn.bsky.social • 25 days ago

Very hard to imagine any social science that would not be flagged by NSF's new censorship regime

Reposted from Darby Saxbe

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mangaboon.bsky.social•24 days ago

Woman and women are also on the list. Literally trying to erase more than half the population.

galacticbutterfly.bsky.social•25 days ago

Social sciences are largely not science so there’s that

fishparade.bsky.social•25 days ago

Tons of STEM, too. “Biased” agonists, fluorescence “polarization”, “diversity”-oriented synthesis—all random stuff in chemistry in molecular biology

brad.westness.cc•25 days ago

Seems like one of those things where they just want people to comply in advance because there's no way they're actually going to review everything caught in that net

bearpondboy.bsky.social•25 days ago

Does it flag “fascist bitch”?

madamedefargeknits.bsky.social•25 days ago

Start using British spelling (“marginalised”).

ddza110.bsky.social•25 days ago

Hard to imagine almost anything that wouldn’t get flagged.

dollymad1812.bsky.social•25 days ago

Anything non profit and social work related gone!

katejackson.bsky.social•25 days ago

Isn’t that the point

burkettt.bsky.social•25 days ago

Pretty hard to sociology these days.

gpetrick.bsky.social•24 days ago

None of it will. Also from their flow chart all grants will be rejected, so no NSF funding.

rdboone.bsky.social•25 days ago

And the Broader Impacts criterion. Fostering diversity is central to the Graduate Research Fellowship Program and the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program.

wonderful-fabulous.bsky.social•25 days ago

I'm going to use these words even more now lol 😈

sewnandsea.bsky.social•25 days ago

Super love how "female" and "women" are on the banned list but "male" and "men" are not

bogyankee.bsky.social•25 days ago

Is "Peckerwood" allowed, in case I want to do a study of MAGA politicians?

sewnandsea.bsky.social•25 days ago

I mean you can't mention politics so you're on a slippery slope with this proposal

nostradamnus.bsky.social•25 days ago

huh if they apply this straight, it will hit my stem lab that studies sex differences in a model organism. gene regulation is woke now i guess

bluememe.bsky.social•25 days ago

Which is fine by them.

rkfatheree.bsky.social•25 days ago

DEIA is a McGuffin. It’s the flimsy rationale they’re giving for shutting down the government and emptying the treasury.

hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social•25 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social/post/3lhbvebgqb22e

dukebk.bsky.social•25 days ago

I regret to inform you that you may no longer diversify the equities in your stock portfolio.

ulysses976.bsky.social•25 days ago

How did you get an NSF grant for that?

cwlj.bsky.social•25 days ago

Makes sense. Social science includes two things the new admin doesn't like, the social and science.

pmwwp.bsky.social•25 days ago

Or math, or almost any other subject. Inequalities! Historically!

giantwhispers.bsky.social•25 days ago

Yeah I think the new regime is more interested in anti-social science.

scottgoeke.bsky.social•25 days ago

how do you even write a super staid genetics grant without being able to use the word “female”

paulrosenberg.bsky.social•24 days ago

"non-male" got you covered... sort of.

scottgoeke.bsky.social•25 days ago

the circumlocutions to accommodate this for basic science grants is insane

mzbitca.bsky.social•25 days ago

I just wrapped a three year NIH grant. It was for suicide prevention but would have been flagged because we had to be sure to focus on vulnerable populations like LGBTQ populations

dmaanderson.bsky.social•25 days ago

I can't write my methods section without mentioning which way I think missingness biased my results

martin-andersen.bsky.social•25 days ago

Or inclusion criteria

dmaanderson.bsky.social•25 days ago

How about marginal effects instead of odds ratios

martin-andersen.bsky.social•25 days ago

That's ok. It's only if you marginalize your effects that you get in trouble. 🤦‍♂️

dmaanderson.bsky.social•25 days ago

Or institutional details explaining the difference between traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage

ourhonor1870.bsky.social•25 days ago

I study patient and caregiver engagement in healthcare.

This is like a list of key words to use when talking about it.

medoria.bsky.social•25 days ago

What the actual fuck

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