The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

whatever1•about 1 hour ago

Math professors at my alma mater were instructed to remove references to “inequalities” to increase their chances of getting funded. The <= and >= type of inequalities.

superhuzza•37 minutes ago

Yes, same with "diversity" for cellular diversity in the brain. Millions of dollars of grant money withdrawn.

beej71•38 minutes ago

We had some trouble with a geology grant that mentioned "mineral inclusion".

hn_throwaway_99•about 2 hours ago

These people who work for this administration are all so grossly and maliciously incompetent.

throwaway27448•about 1 hour ago

They are quite competent at causing enough chaos for those with inside knowledge and wealth to exploit.

slater•7 minutes ago

And for the next administration to be left holding the bag, teeing it up for another round of "see? SEEEE???? they're terrible at the economy!!" if a Democratic president wins the election

Varelion•about 2 hours ago

Should be criminal.

reverius42•42 minutes ago

A lot of it is! We live in lawlessness (for those at the top) in the US.

piloto_ciego•35 minutes ago

Man, this is the kind of thing I have been trying to tell people. It's unsettling to think about, but I'm like, "look, there are no rules now, it's all a negotiation, the only real laws are the laws of physics and the rules someone selectively enforces under the threat of violence."

It would do us good if we remember this, because this sort of the basic state of nature that most people have lived under most of human history. I'm not saying this is how it should be, but a lot of people are still living in the pearl-clutched "but, that's against the rules!" despite there being basically no real rules for a decade.

When people realize that it's all nonsense, it's going to get weird.

sublinear•about 1 hour ago

Has there ever been an administration that wasn't tone deaf to the other side?

macintux•about 1 hour ago

Do not “both sides” this level of corruption and incompetence.

mrtesthah•21 minutes ago

Following the law is not a matter of partisan politics.

ajross•19 minutes ago

What's the counterexample of significant funding withdrawn by democratic administrations because of "possibly conservative" language in the output?

"Tone deaf" seems not to be capturing the essence of the malfeasance here.

ChrisArchitect•about 2 hours ago

Banned Words List

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319573

dools•about 2 hours ago

The trump admin is a hive of scum and villainy worthy of a comic book universe, and Musk is inextricably linked. Thus anyone using twitter or grok or buying a Tesla or using starlink is complicit.

EDIT: or working for these companies!! Couldn’t pay me enough to do it.

inigyou•about 2 hours ago

"admin" is what we call a regime that works properly. This one doesn't, so it's a "regime".

etchalon•about 2 hours ago

This is what right-wing Twitter brain gets you.

forestrywat•about 1 hour ago

That's just "Twitter brain" at this point, right? Hard to imagine anyone leftish still being there.

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

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