srslydude.bsky.social
Leftist, Polysci major, Higher Ed worker, IT professional, Friend of researchers
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What’s wild is that in the 1700’s English colonists were calling themselves ‘native Americans’ and complaining about German immigrants. This attitude has deep roots
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They should do this every day
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Ugh yes, my bad, we've been at war nearly his entire life.
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Did you imagine it'd be like this for our kids?
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I have a child born just 5 months prior to 9/11 - we've been at work nearly his entire life
he just turned 24
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well, I guess my job as an IT professional is in danger 🤣 Also, how old is this damn laptop that takes 5 minutes to boot?
So many questions!
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Yeah I work at ND. We've lost a lot of grant funding much of it from NIH and NSF. Research into infectious diseases, cancer research, etc. ND's president and VPs went to Washington to talk about our research but it didn't do any good.
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Yep I know of one that went from undergrad focused to an R1 in ten years, it’s about donors too, show them the shiny and they will show you the green
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Not attend, it would have been better. Even if they staged some stupid rally in another part of the capitol - it would have been better
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And we don't have the votes to pass it so ...wheeeeeee!
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There are lots of poor young people who can't afford to move to another country, so don't worry about young people fleeing.
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Democrats should've boycotted it. Now they just look like assholes who wouldn't clap for a sick kid to one group, and a bunch of weaklings to others. It was a no-win so they should have went big.
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It has to actually happen for anyone to believe it. I have people denying that the research funding cuts are happening. I have message from our VP for Research and our Dean - but still - the average person thinks it's fear-mongering and that I'm being played.
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OK more ranting! I work in higher ed as IT support for folks in research. WTF. We have lost so much money. We were doing cancer research, rare disease research, adult stem cell therapy research, MRSA research - all bc people were offended by academics. Now it's revenge?
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The level of ignorance. It's transgenic research. Genetically modified mice. TRANSGENE...
Although, they really don't like that either so maybe I should be quiet.
Will Trans Atlantic flights be outlawed? Will Trans Continental flights be cancelled?