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The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia

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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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nickff ◴[12 May 25 04:43 UTC] No.43959719[source]▶
VCs also put lots of money into Theranos, it doesn’t make it a good idea.
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marcus_holmes ◴[12 May 25 04:54 UTC] No.43959763[source]▶
Theranos was a great idea. The problem was that they couldn't make it work and they lied about that to everyone involved. That's different from it not being a good idea in the first place.
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1. anovikov ◴[12 May 25 06:52 UTC] No.43960290[source]▶
This. Even worse: every good idea is the one that looks bad to a layman, otherwise there won't be an opportunity there: if an idea is obviously good, a lot of people already came up with it a long time ago.