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The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia

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146 points MaysonL | 1 comments | 12 May 25 02:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | 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. xphos ◴[12 May 25 14:46 UTC] No.43963624[source]▶
Gasp the director of education is investigating how to build a culturally aware science learning in the fastest grow cultural bloc in the US!!!

My second thought was let me sort by a different directorate ahh the stories changes but maybe that's me getting lucky because the biology directorate does hard science. But there is a lot of DEI stuff here why? Because its the grant cancelation statistics after the admin defunded anything with a DEI term. It doesn't represent the totality of NSF funding but an extremely bias sample of it.

The solution to you don't like DEI is to pass laws not just eliminate science research as a whole. Give the NSF time to publish all the canceled programs. Its easier to say you don't like "that research" but than fire your congress person who give the NSF to do "that exact type of research". Not a huge plurality of scientists who did what our nation asked them to do.