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The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia

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146 points MaysonL | 3 comments | 12 May 25 02:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.495s | source
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gotoeleven ◴[12 May 25 04:01 UTC] No.43959536[source]▶
I didn't look at every one on the list of these 1000 NSF grants that were cancelled:

https://airtable.com/appGKlSVeXniQZkFC/shrFxbl1YTqb3AyOO?jnt...

but I think if you skim the titles you can sense a theme.

Here's the very first one: "Cambio: A Professional Development Approach for Building Latinx-focused Cultural Competence in Informal Science Education Institutions" for a whopping 2.8 million dollars.

This is not basic research, this is not important research, this is left wing politics parasitically attached to scientific institutions.

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1. hiddencost ◴[12 May 25 05:21 UTC] No.43959866[source]▶
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2. foxglacier ◴[12 May 25 05:31 UTC] No.43959914[source]▶
Huh? Did you see the list? That's number one. I picked out the least DEI looking one I could from a quick glance and it turned out to include "increase the diversity, equity, and inclusivity (DEI) of the Biological Physics Community", and "To increase the participation of women and URM scientists at the meeting, we will ...". It's obvious why these grants were terminated. They were DEI ahead of science and the government is working to clean that out.
3. tomhow ◴[15 May 25 13:41 UTC] No.43994999[source]▶
You can't post like this on Hacker News, no matter what you're replying to. Also, other recent comments of yours have been breaking the guidelines and we've received complaints. If you could please take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe them in future, we'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html