It seems like someone could take this list and pull up a list of really important science that would be destroyed. Such as stuff about blood-brain barrier or barrier reef (admittedly possibly climate related) or cell barriers. - ThreadSky

emptywheel.bsky.social • 37 days ago

It seems like someone could take this list and pull up a list of really important science that would be destroyed. Such as stuff about blood-brain barrier or barrier reef (admittedly possibly climate related) or cell barriers.

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🚨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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4gabriel.bsky.social•37 days ago

I bet the ban is because of birth control that used the Barrier method- remember these ding dongs want to bring back Comstock and that means zero sex edu receipt for the sacred doctor priest of the woman cloaca -it’s all in the buybull

4gabriel.bsky.social•37 days ago

Thanks autocorrect -as usual you got it wrong except -not receipt

4gabriel.bsky.social•37 days ago

For this particular word -barrier

db-s-turbosnail.bsky.social•37 days ago

This list proves white conservative men have fragile little egos and not example of masculinity

jacquiebattle.bsky.social•37 days ago

Yes, it's interesting that these words are not on the list: Caucasian, white, male, men, masculine

sweetpollymine.bsky.social•37 days ago

"Bias" is a statistical term used throughout scientific literature.

virgiemckinney.bsky.social•37 days ago

Ecological studies often include as an objective documenting floral/faunal community diversity and species richness so yeah, fork biological diversity 😤

srbsmk.bsky.social•37 days ago

Current federal funding requirements included addressing underserved communities. So almost all recent human health and educational funding has these terms. Prepare for decimation of science as we know it.

srbsmk.bsky.social•37 days ago

I just need to add that these people are so dumb, uncaring, vindictive and mean. It is hard to understand humans acting this way.

jackin503.bsky.social•37 days ago

^ this
😭

ayayronk.bsky.social•37 days ago

Exactly. "equality", "systemic", and "female" are in the list as well. Comical if it weren't so destructive.

4gabriel.bsky.social•37 days ago

Misogyny waist deep in Femicide

ftkyte.bsky.social•36 days ago

Texas Gulf Coast is all barrier islands, like Padre Island

ettouslouie.bsky.social•37 days ago

My kid works in university pharm chem lab researching penetration of therapeutics across the blood-brain barrier to treat neurological diseases. US science/research is going to have a brain drain.

notquietmodemd.bsky.social•36 days ago

1984 came 41 years late.
(When fully activated, 2025 version of 1984 will be powered by Palantir.. in partnership with OpenAI, Meta, Google, X, Oracle, Grok/TeslaAI, and US Sovereign Wealth Fund owned TikTok.)
But hey, please….
tell me I’m overreacting.

bigalincal.bsky.social•36 days ago

Someone needs to write "1984 Redux" (I'm an Updike fan)
Don't need to change too much-TV on the wall that watches and listens to you, and is basically a propaganda streaming device? 5 minutes of hate? It's 24/7 on fox. And how is trump not proto-Big Brother?

tujungadude.bsky.social•37 days ago

"stop using words"

idletenta.bsky.social•37 days ago

The word discrimination is often used in the meaning of discrimination between different objects/signals

dlus.bsky.social•37 days ago

Arctic studies that impact indigenous populations in Alaska. I think Dan Sullivan sits on the Senate sub committee that oversees NSF.

kurthy.bsky.social•37 days ago

That's the point. No science funding period.

neilpostman.bsky.social•37 days ago

Hell, all physical chemistry text books have the term 'energy barrier' in them and a ton of just general chemistry research publications do.

snowaking.bsky.social•37 days ago

The intention is incredibly bad, and if this is a real list, the execution is incredibly stupid. Bias has a technical meaning important for evaluating the performance of statistical/machine learning/AI methods that has nothing to do with the specifics of the application, just one of many examples.

hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social•37 days ago

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

changingtheworld.bsky.social•37 days ago

Straight up Nazi behavior.

now-citizen.bsky.social•36 days ago

“To control against biases in rural versus urban white male drug addiction, we used the following techniques” oops. Can’t use bias!

othybear.bsky.social•37 days ago

Any research into “female breast cancer” is done. The distinction is actually quite important terms of research questions.

othybear.bsky.social•37 days ago

And I can’t think of a single grant of mine that included zero of these words. It’s like asking someone to write a grant without using the letter E.

deege.bsky.social•36 days ago

As of today, NSF is still not processing payments despite the court order.

betsy-cazden.bsky.social•37 days ago

For starters, *all* research on pregnancy, post-partum, breast and uterine cancer, uterine fibroids, heart disease in women, etc.

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