no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
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Darby Saxbe
🚨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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i’m sure that’s fine. just cull all that
These people are not smart. 🗿
“If any of these words show up…”
Who is Darby Saxby and who is this "program officer?" Just quoting randoms isn't journalism.
Do better.
FREE speech is when the government doesn't apply PREFERENCE to SPEECH
Two exact papers, but one contains one bad word so it doesn't get chosen?
That's BIAS.
BIAS =/= FREE
It's going to be interesting reading research come out of the US with TikTok-style code-wording in the style of "unalived" to avoid the censors. Can't wait until the reason for that is taught in history class.
I propose we replace these old fashioned words with more MAGA friendly versions
E.g. our results indicate a Trump is more likely to occur when the Stock Market is used to select candidates instead of competency.
Like these guys only ever think of genitals and how women are ovens for more men & how to stop poc and woke having kids.
They can't think ahead of any domino effect or repercussions outside of their "needs" 🤮
After the last 2 weeks (well, 8+ years) maybe someone should figure out what’s going on with white men 🙄
have been playing
THE MAN
game for long enough
March all fifty
Tomorrow
These Yarvin goons are seriously evil, and the only mitigating factor is thst they're also seriously incompetent.
That's an extremely common word in any field involving statistics, such as machine learning. There's going to be nothing left except neoliberal economists writing opinion pieces at this rate.
It's crazy that they even want women In poor health but I bet they truly believe they can get women to have more male babies this way because screw how genetics actually work, disgusting.
They are a plague and should be treated as such
It relies on research grants and similar funding. And those funding opportunities can suddenly evaporate if the research is "inconvenient."
Science isn't the problem. Being beholden to opportunistic funding is.
It is not an activist policy that targets white people for being denied those same opportunities.
These fucks failed high school science class
If you work for him, is it worth your integrity to support the man who’s taking over America?
You really want that to be your legacy?
To get that, you have to be a billionaire
White-Christian-Nationalist Men’s Project 2025 club
1) Hate non-whites (duh) — They are going to implement slavery
2) Erasing women from American life; sending women back into the home for sex, babies, home schooling, cleaning, not voting, not working, not thinking—obedient
They want to go bavk to the 50s, but not the strong unions, corporate taxes, or strong wages, just the racism and misogyny.
Time of Henry VIII
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII
Henry the 8th I am I am!"
came to my mind... 😆
This white men only approach to research will backfire spectacularly with Americans as it’s victims as key scientists are prevented from research and dev.
Saying 'reaction barrier layers' in a technical description would not get pulled.
Saying 'barrier to employment for underrepresented people' may get pulled.
Context is everything.
You can teach AI many things, but sarcasm is only human.
You’re playing telephone and changing what you read/ heard.
Certain words could flag applications and get a grant denied but it’s only a possibility.
Try to not change what you’ve heard to make it sound like something else
I literally don't think I can write about semiconductor fabrication without using some of this list.
It's a part of research. SMH
I'm not defending the list, but also don't want people to be even more freaked out than they rightfully are.
The absolute dumbest ones (it's all dumb btw)
They could be relevant to scientific research, now researchers are going to have to hire lawyers to verbosely navigate around it.