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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: 0.606s | 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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userbinator ◴[12 May 25 04:19 UTC] No.43959617[source]▶
Besides the usual DEI stuff, some of those titles sound like the output of a stochastic generator trained on buzzwords:

"HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: Using Peer-Enhanced Blockchain-Based Learning Environments to Promote Student Engagement and Retention"

"Blockchain-Based Learning Environments". That's my WTF of the day.

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hshdhdhj4444 ◴[12 May 25 04:41 UTC] No.43959708[source]▶
You do realize VCs were putting billions into this shit a few years ago right?

Maybe DOGE should have shut down YCombinator.

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1. userbinator ◴[12 May 25 05:44 UTC] No.43959977[source]▶
Fortunately, VCs weren't doing that with taxpayer's money.
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2. a_bonobo ◴[12 May 25 06:41 UTC] No.43960235[source]▶
Given that the highest-earning income tax bracket's tax rate in the US fell from ~70% to 37% since the 70s, one could argue that VC money used to be taxpayer's money.

Nice visualisation here: https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/personal-finance/hi...

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3. anovikov ◴[12 May 25 06:50 UTC] No.43960282[source]▶
Not really. That might pertain to angels but not to VCs. They don't operate with private (individual)owned, post-tax dollars. They are businesses and operate with pre-tax, business money, not even theirs - but bank loans.