ddling.bsky.social
Husband, dad, dog lover, amateur musician, retired physicist/engineer/teacher, Harvard Physics PhD, U Mich grad, U Chicago, IBM Watson, WHS. Son of 2 KU profs.
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Maybe take a minute to understand the consequences of your rash actions before you take them? You know, due diligence?
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These folks are perfectly willing to sacrifice the Atlantic Alliance, Pax Americana, our standing in the world, relationships with our allies, the competent functioning of federal government, our ability to attract STEM talent from around the world, etc, if their regulatory burden is eased...
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Completely and utterly incompetent
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The fish rots from the head. Permission has been given...
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We all know he doesn't read them. He hasn't read anything since Mein Kampf. They are props... and likely available for sale or trade
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Marco looks like JD just finished...
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So the NYT views the assault on DEI as having positive impact?!?!?
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The current administration is determined to blow all of this up. They are unleashing chaos on the world and will bring about a less prosperous and weaker US. They are hastening the end of the American century.
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The position of the US in world geopolitics has been immeasurably weakened and will remain so for years to come.
America First is really America Alone -- and that is not a good thing.
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Make America Germy Again
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Maybe do your due diligence before taking action, like adults do...
Stupid putz...
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Just the President
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Essential jobs are all those that Congress voted to fund, not just those that TRUSK likes...
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Scott Jennings is a despicable human being
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If this (pretty much everything DOGE has done) happened in the private sector, the people doing, then undoing, then doing again, then clarifying, etc., would be fired pretty quickly for incompetence.
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It's self-evident... I'm a Russian asset. That's the rationale.
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Without drawing on the whole world's talent and generously funding our currently best-in-the-world research institutions, the US will find it harder to maintain its scientific and technological advantage. 15/15
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Up until now, we've been like the small Catholic or Prep schools that recruit elite athletic talent in outsize numbers and win state championships year after year with small overall enrollment. 14/15
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It's not that the best athlete in the big school is necessarily better than the best athlete in the small school, it's that there are so many more of them. 13/15
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We know a public high school with enrollment of 400 students will find it difficult to compete in athletics against a public school with 4000 students. It's why we have groups or divisions in high schools sports. 12/15
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Soon (if not already) much of the best talent from around the world will prefer other destinations for higher education & research and we will be the poorer for it. 11/15
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In recent years, we've been much less welcoming to our foreign science & engineering students. Our policies & attitudes have encouraged many students who in the past would have stayed here to enrich our universities & laboratories to instead return to their home countries. 10/15
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During 4+ decades as a research scientist/engineer, at Michigan, Harvard, Chicago, & IBM Research, I've been fortunate to work with many excellent foreign-born scientists and engineers. They were all enthusiastic contributors to the success of American science & technology. 9/15
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The research and development that has occurred in the US as a consequence has been one of the primary drivers of our economic growth. 8/15
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For two or three generations, we have recruited many of the best science students from around the world, and the result has been that we have dominated science and technology, despite having only 5% of the world's population. 7/15
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Many of these students decided they preferred to stay in the US, do cutting edge research and train the next generation of scientists. We welcomed them and they delivered for us. 6/15
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After World War II, as we increased our funding of university, government and industrial science and developed our national laboratory system, many of the very best science and engineering students from around the world came to the US to study. 5/15
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In just my field of physics, and off the top of my head, I can list Einstein, Teller, Bethe, Fermi, Wigner, Franck and Rabi. There were numerous others. 4/15
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The transition of the United States from a scientific backwater to a titan of science and technology was accelerated by the immigration of the cream of European science between the World Wars. 3/15
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Recently, some have suggested that we restrict foreign students, especially Chinese students, from studying technical subjects in our colleges and universities. I have some thoughts about that. 2/15
#R&D #Research #ResearchFunding #NSF
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Perhaps they will become sterile and be unable to reproduce...
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The laws of physics are self-enforcing
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Is there any reason to believe the Trump-Musk administration will abide by any court ruling?
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Too little, too late