Yeah, I mean, he made three specific campaign promises about the NYPD and he’s walked them all back. They weren’t particularly ambitious promises either
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Over the last few days, there has been a lot of discussion about the proposed regulation to increase political oversight of grantmaking. Some have argued this represents increased politicization of science. As someone who studies the politics of science, I think that's the wrong argument to make. 🧵
Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees
I disagree wthis STRONGLY. The pandemic was a wealth transfer upwards. Members of the working class did not engage in a moral failing of crypto magic beans; their wealth (which they briefly clawed back a bit of) was stolen again by Bidenomics. The Child Tax Credit etc shoulda been a new DNC fooor
Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet.
The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
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The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors.
Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.
Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸
Dr. Thrasher is on post book tour hiatus
The Vanderbilt report and Trump’s attack on the NIH and NSF are part of the same right-wing effort to attack the authority of all peer-reviewed knowledge so that they can police what researchers write, say, publish, and think to ensure it complies with corporate-friendly aims.
So I think this, alongside that Cornell guy running over his students with a car, might be more corrosive to public trust in Higher Ed than "postmodern" theorists like Jean Baudrillard, whose dire predictions about a post-truth society have unfortunately proven accurate.
