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The universities took sides in the culture war instead of remaining neutral educational institutions like they are supposed to be. I have little sympathy for t
by fallingknife 2y ago
The universities took sides in the culture war instead of remaining neutral educational institutions like they are supposed to be. I have little sympathy for them now that the other side is firing back. I don't want to see valuable research at these universities cut back either, but they need to take their share of the blame and remove the political cancer eating them alive. It's not the physics department that's drawing fire from the Trump administration.
- defrost 2y agoIt's many departments, including physics, including education. This specific article is part of a series, this part is about the National Institutes of Health where the cuts are so deep that: People inside the Division of Intramural Research (the in-house research groups) have been told in so many words that "the vast majority of our legitimate DIR ordering needs are not currently able to be fulfilled". So they're having to triage and try to get spending done that directly impacts human and animal safety and ongoing clinical research. they are literally working out what to save that will kill the fewest numbers of people, animals, and programs down the line. > the political cancer eating them alive. This sounds hyperbolic, perhaps sourced from a Fox News or Tucker Carlson take on DEI in the sciences.
- fallingknife 2y agoMy dad runs a university lab and is forced to put DEI nonsense in his research grants. It's real. And none of the front line researchers in hard science likes it, but they aren't the ones making the rules.