🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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LMAO, RIP all finance and portfolio theory research 😆
It’s so dumb.
It'll be like taking a vocab test on another level when reading machine learning papers, where neural networks are determined by weights and biases.
Big Brother will be watching.
This is absolutely ridiculous 🤣
I sense some very very sensitive masculinity in this decision tree...
Though something tells me that's not what they were hoping to achieve...
Maybe you can try to use « queen »
Welcome back to the world of all numbers tailored to men’s physiology, ladies..
This is insanity.
The 14th Amendment provides equal protection under the law. That's equity.
We pledge allegiance to the flag. In that pledge, we promise, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. A-L-L. That's inclusion.
LESSON 1: Do Not Obey In Advance
https://youtu.be/9tocssf3w80
#USpol #USpolitics #Books "On Freedom" too
https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-on-tyranny
Thanks for sharing.
"THAT'S it BANNED!"
Devils
My god , the people now running the USA really are ignorant in their ideological crusade.
Sorry
So any neurological studies that include research into the blood-brain barrier would automatically be booted.
JFC
Oh I can think of a few reasons and I'm sure everyone else can too.
Instant turn down.
Just FYI.
F NO!!!!!
Take of that what you will
From now on there will only be males and unpersons.
"women"
Women are also scientists. Women also work in the administration. Women voted for h*m.
Every single word, idea, & person matters.
But holy fuck, how revealing.
Would be so grateful for explanation ☺️
I quoted and did my best re: the decision tree but I'd still like to read this. Thanks!
This is a violation of the Constitution’s Equal Protections Clause on the basis of at least sex, race, and disability.
There needs to be a legal challenge.
@amyklobuchar.com
All they need to say is that by law* all NSF grants since 2011 have addressed broader impacts, always some element of DEIJ, and law supersedes EO so that practice will continue until the law changes.
This is one step - “does the application contain banned words?”
This is what anticipatory obedience looks like.
🧪
This flow chart simply says end all funding..... There is no path that leads to anything but "End'
(Though I share your doubts that this is the genuine flow chart)
This way, people can see what's going on.
If it was already "AI", no-one could understand what the data sets mean after it has been trained.
e.g. in the case of "systemic", "systemic inflammation" would be ok, "systemic climate risk" would be flagged
They just don't give a fuck about people's lives
Is this real? It’s the most bizarre thing I’ve read. Just confirming - this is madness
"Does proposal contain keywords and context..."
Much less offensive to the sensibilities of decent, efficiency-loving folk.
I wrote a poem following the NSF’s decision tree, turning their bureaucratic logic into verse
Flagged for Thought: A Decision Tree Poem
🔗 poem:https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdUhhooU/
This will cripple science in the USA.
Hopefully, the rest of the world will benefit from the resultant brain drain
Slingers are needed, I recall even the compilers were hard to come by
in 1999 ...
Watch all research leaving the US. 🤷😢
How to turn the US into North Korea. 🤷
So what, are they "human, but not men"?
skin BARRIER
brain BARRIER
patient ADVOCATE
SES score in regression analysis (SOCIOECONOMIC status)
FEMALE, WOMEN
What the fuck
That list was generated by AI - it’s incomplete, asymmetrical and bizarre. It makes no sense even from a fascist perspective to ban words like historically, institutional, or indeed even women.
Which means they'll just pick and choose what they want.
Direct link to pdf here: https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/4BD2D522-2092-4246-91A5-58EEF99750BC
DO BETTER.
Republicans hate us all
Anyone researching mono-crops, and their negative impacts, is gonna have trouble writing a paper.
Double ironic ... every other word's banned, so can now ONLY say gay.
Just medical studies - considering different effects - are eradicated then …
Apart from *every* scientific / human topic…
This is inacceptable and will harm + cost many lives
Havoc to science, universities, knowledge🤯
hmm so confusing
They could’ve communicated the goal this simply.
*headdesk*
End of decision tree.
Victor Klemperer, LTI: The language of the Third Reich, ed. Counterpoint, p. 141.
These are like some of my most used words.
Next stop is NEH grants?!
Not that the far right troglodytes in charge would care, they probably love it!
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this looks like it is banning any research with the words disabilities or disability from NSF simply by keyword without any consideration of the need or importance of the research!
cc/ @sawaba.bsky.social
Share widely.
Beyond losers 😈 Vile bullies Brainwashing, replacing:
- words w/ grunts + whines,
- humanity w/ yt supremacy,
- equality w/ punishing "others"
- community w/ oligarchy.
CDC Orders Its Scientists To Withdraw New Papers To Hunt Out ‘Forbidden Terms': Reports
Trump reportedly wants to erase terms including gender, transgender, pregnant person, LGBT, transsexual and nonbinary.
Actually, now that I think about it, they’re probably perfectly happy with that outcome, aren’t they? They’re pretty anti-intellectual in general
Going into this administration, I was very aware of this happening because it was stated in Project 2025.
Utterly repulsive to see it unfolding.
They *are* foolish, of course, because it's not sustainable, but they are *not* stupid — they just are comfortable with everyone else being made more ignorant, with themselves keeping living in a more and more über-rich, isolated and privileged elite.
There, now it fits their bullshit language control.
I mean. This is speed-running how to ruin a superpower.
Like. I get the problems we cause. But breaking us won’t weaken our international opponents who’ll harm those under our umbrella. 😞
same people now: we do not use the term woman, it has been forbidden by divine order of trump-musk
Best way to control is to enforce what can’t be said.
--and then what... trans-neptunian objects and cis-neptunian objects are... wth are they "renamed" to? /rhetorical
So that's any vaguely DEI-related research, and research on infectious diseases, banned by the champions of free speech. And companies that choose not to advertise on X.
The US government has been taken over by the Dunning Kruger syndrome.
These super common terms would get you disqualified:
- Bell inequalities
- Potential barrier
- Schottky barrier
- Coulomb barrier
- Heisenberg inequality
- Pauli exclusion principle
- Exclusion zone
did everyone miss this?
but what i am pointing out is the text: "contains keywords *and context that implicate the EOs*".
like, how is *any* of this akin to lysenko and the holomder--or mao's great famine?
you guys are *crazy*.
Imagine there is a new pathogen affecting females only of which we know nothing about. Trump would prevent research on that, as "female" is part of his exclusion list.
it isn't comparable to mao's great famine.
it isn't comparable to stalin/lysenkosim.
what you are arguing is absurd on its face.
To get a research grant, you have to write a grant proposal. Those words in the list are "flagged" meaning that grant request is automatically rejected by the government.
I'm guessing it's something related to DEI but how does "trauma" relate to it?
Then we have equality and inequality, which are properties of chemistry and physics.
And bias? Every article mentions and addresses bias.
How are we supposed to learn about history if we can't research culture?
Die bewusste Zerstörung der amerikanischen WissenschaftsLandschaft wird auch für uns nicht ohne Folgen bleiben .
Sie wollen, dass alle ungebildeten Bauern sind.
(Google translate)
For example, the YMCA uses quite a few of those words.
Most elaborate state funeral ever.
........ but it doesn't have to be on the list to do it anyway.
It's either LATINO or LATINA
LATINX is bull shit
American is fucked at this point.
Money is speech, so the govt requiring or withholding money as penalty for speech is violating that very notion.
Unless it is a political crony specifically hunting for anything - then again bigger words may mean they can’t tell.
Of keywords guaranteed to result in speedy grant approval
- white
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK222286/#:~:text=During%20early%20development%20the%20gonads,the%20development%20of%20the%20testes.
Though what you mentioned makes sense re super early development. Oogenesis starts in the foetus at around 7 weeks -> phenotypically different.
they are simply keywords used to flag pseudo-sociology studies.
the flagging system is clearly explained here:
https://bsky.app/profile/maiageorge.bsky.social/post/3lhdtbuby6c27
Luckily, the ban hasn't reached my job, yet.
Trump is imitating Orbán.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/donald-trump-orban-playbook-putin-musk.html
A site for converting and image's text into plain text:
https://www.picturetotext.org
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I feel sad.
Does this mean we can cancel white cis males, cause they unfortunately created cultural heritage too...
I think Asimov said something about "their ignorance being as good as your knowlege."
In our conservatives case, their Bible is better than your knowledge or expertise.
Coming to a university near you: Newspeak - Read all you need to know about your new language here:
https://handwiki.org/wiki/Social:Newspeak
How will you write about ML architectures without the word "bias"????
waytoodank
(sad reality is that ofc there will still be some "studies" about pregnancy, but only the ones that get approved/ordered by people in power even if funily enough even these ones would be censored atm...)
They're coming for us too, trust me. You could space it out. A ctivism. But it's too late for that.
The next step is any terms related to evolution, paleontology, virology, epidemiology, vaccines, cosmology, gravity, "round Earth", (seriously) etc.
This is going to turn America into a science wasteland.
Maybe now we can sort out those problems & then convince public their money isn't wasted?
What right IS there to the hard earned money of laborers until that is sorted out? How arrogant is it to assume no accountability for their money?
This is ego-driven policymaking.
"psychopathology" as someone else explained it
The hamfisted evil stupitidy in mind blowing.
So I expect a lot of unrelated stuff to get blocked. Like every animal study I've ever worked on.
I love that the public news article linked to this on #bsky, not #X -- it shows they're catching on to where free flow of ideas still is happening.
Elon Musk
Jeff Bezos
Rupert Murdoch
The Sinclair Network (Ripley & Smith)
with special assistance from
Benjamin Netanyahu
and
Vladimir Putin
NONE of these people have any official role in the United States (Musk's role is not confirmed).
I think it will. I don't think anyone has the capacity for independent thought anymore.
What happens if some States, rightfully, decide that they must secede?
Then some second thoughts.
Then some serious efforts to assassinate any named individuals who are in the former USA.
Way too late.
McConnell blew the chance to rid us of Trump
The Ministry of Truth purports to be focused on the pursuit of truth but is concerned with erasing the truth of the past and present and replacing it with whatever the Party deems “correct.” Those in charge of the ministry decide what “truth” is.
Not a single brain cell in use, just yes men at the top
But there's a reason Orwell warned us about this.
1984 was published in 1949 after the end of WWII, 76 years ago. It was a joke about the title of one of his books. But having to explain it because of the *WOOSH* overhead makes it less funny.
Wait, what? That's the whole point. The orange blob and his muskrat leader have cotton heads, no brain atall!
Before the Nazis, Germany led the world in Nobel Prizes. Since then the United States has been dominant.
I wonder who it will be in the 21st Century?
ALL technology is derived from primary research. And that is only really done as a part of government program (through universities) or as a vanity project (but those have VERY unstable funding).
I think this is them believing their own propaganda about "woke mind virus".
I think Musk completely genuinely thinks that all problems in his life and in the country will be solved once you get rid of all trans people and all mentions of them.
Trumps golden plan
Elons brilliant project
Yes, they are that infantile and egotistical
I used to write grants for social service nonprofits and there is just no conceivable way it’s possible with this list. The whole point of a grant proposal is to prove a need due to social bias.
I also serve on the board of an agency that serves latinx immigrant survivors of sexual assault.
The mission statements alone would be cause.
Like, literally my whole career would not have existed.
Perhaps Nazi Elon Musk & felon Donald Trump want to prohibit people from writing grants so they can remove a maximum amount of money from the U.S. Treasury for themselves.
The pitchforks AND the torches.
D-Z are missing.
Eg, bias = partiality
They're already talking about doing away with ASL interpreters for public speeches.
Good God...you guys are going to have to organise and push right back at this bunch of (explicatives deleted) before they torch the whole world.
"Statistical bias", "diversify investments", "courts of equity", "sound barrier"...