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chanda.bsky.social • 25 days ago

Points to the sign again 👇🏽

Reposted from Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪

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cstmoore.bsky.social•25 days ago

My high school German teacher lived through WW2, married a GI, and moved to the US.

When I was in school we were told: If you want to study law, especially international law, learn French; if you want to study science, learn German. In my experience after school, English dominated publications.

justanother108.bsky.social•24 days ago

It’s probably just me, but I see too many pushing against any quality education in ‘Murica, but here we are:

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/glorifying-ignorance-scientific-illiteracy/

kgwynn.bsky.social•25 days ago

Thanks for sharing. I know several folks who work in academia and the parallels are so scary

obrimos-main.bsky.social•25 days ago

But but but they said it was fake Jewish science?! You’re saying it wasn’t?!?! What am I supposed to believe?!

leachphrog.bsky.social•24 days ago

So, it sounds like: if we, as a country, do rotten shit to science and scientists, then we no longer get a seat at the table of intelligent achievement (or even intelligent conversation).

justanother108.bsky.social•24 days ago

Our deep pockets seem to think they can buy whatever they need, including so-called smart people from wherever they want to fetch them:

An easily led population of poorly educated is far more easy to maintain and lead, yes?

sfomel.bsky.social•25 days ago

Bertolt Brecht addressed the social responsibility of scientists in Leben des Galilei. "To my mind, the only purpose of science is to lighten the toil of human existence… As things stand now, the best we can hope for is a generation of inventive dwarfs who can be hired for any purpose."

ramimido8.bsky.social•25 days ago

Hello my dear chanda
I know that you do not publish many campaigns, but things get worse if you can help me, I will be grateful to you all my life if you cannot excuse me for annoying me🙏

denisedewald.bsky.social•25 days ago

We are all going to have to learn Chinese

cstmoore.bsky.social•25 days ago

Tom Lehrer was prescient.

https://tomlehrersongs.com/wernher-von-braun/

cstmoore.bsky.social•25 days ago

Performed by the man himself. https://youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro?si=ci3d75mzMwKrz0w3

denisedewald.bsky.social•25 days ago

The bit on Chinese was hilarious

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