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We need to start acting like this is sabotage by foreign agents. The administration is a wrecking ball with a Russian flag on it. It’s a treason unparalleled in history.
demonizing foreigners is counterproductive. the enemy of Americans is the robber barons and they're in the white house
If russia weren't involved, the same thing would still be happening. russias goals overlap with p2025.
Seems likely that Russia is behind p2025
The heritage foundation is behind p2025.
These statements don't seem mutually exclusive.
Well more like the oligarchs who paid this shit tank to cook it up
Kinda reminds me of the AI winters that AI research has historically gone through.
The winter of our malcontents
I wish the people making these decisions had even once read Steinbeck, or any book without pictures
Brainstorming things you can do about it:
(US) tell congress you want NSF funding to grow, not cut in half.
(US) tell your state gov to start (resume, really) funding state colleges and growing their research offices.
(World) tell your government to increase research funding and support recruiting efforts. Help people get out and continue to do good work.
(All) consider donations and support for professional societies around academics. (Not just in the US; I suspect strengthening these institutions world wide will help.)
(All) let folks know that the US government is gutting weather reporting, basic research (in basically every field), training for future researchers, and ending experiments that have been running for decades. If there is a cool thing you'd like to see in the future, chances are a republican just broke it.
(Folks with far too much money; kinda shocked you're on here) donate to colleges to create grad student/postdoc/faculty positions. Earmark it carefully so that additional positions are created instead of administrators relabeling previous positions to move money around.