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by vonneumannstan 15 days ago
You mean Vaccine researchers? Or renewable energy researchers?
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b65e8bee43c2ed0 15 days ago
oh, don't be coy.

https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/NSF-Terminated-Award...

I wouldn't even need to cherry pick.

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Untagged0060 15 days ago
The first item on the list is 44M for quantum materials. Can you please explain why cancelling it is in the national interest of the US? Other than the fact that Harvard didn't admit Daddy's favorite boy?
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bsdetector 15 days ago
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award/?AWD_ID=1231319&a...

Appears it didn't receive any funds since 2022 after being extended for years (so your "daddy" is Biden) and wouldn't get any more money so was canceled to get it off the books.

If anything this shows the list includes regular grants that were canceled for normal reasons, which further demonstrates the cuts were not of real science.

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convolvatron 15 days ago
that doesn't imply anything at all, just that some grants weren't cancelled for political reasons
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bsdetector 14 days ago
It implies that this list is the entirety of the cancelled NSF grants instead of a cherrypicked woke subset.
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throwawaypath 15 days ago
Some of those titles look so satirical it's difficult to believe they're real:

Culture Change for Inclusion of Indigenous Voices in Biology

Strengthening Inclusion by Change in Building Equity, Diversity and Understanding (SICBEDU) in Integrative Biology

An Equitable, Justice-Focused Ecosystem for Pacific Northwest Secondary CS [Computer Science] Teaching

Great to read these are being defunded.

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