Stanford AAUP
The Stanford Chapter of the @aaup.bsky.social. Fighting to preserve academic freedom for all. All Stanford academic staff are eligible to join. Opinions our own.
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- As @mmasnick.bsky.social has noted, everything is a conspiracy theory when you don’t know how anything works.
- Another one! Why is this completely normal process of testing a hypothesis presented as high-level deception? www.thenation.com/article/soci...
- “To remain on advisory boards that have been stripped of meaningful advisory function is to become that shopkeeper, to lend legitimacy to a process that has been systematically delegitimized." — @alondra.bsky.social on her resignation
- "For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
- Antibiotic resistance is a major threat to public health, yet this grant was terminated as part of the federal government’s wanton punishment of one of the nation’s top universities. They’re risking our health to establish dominance over higher education.
- A landslide triggered by a melting glacier tried to warn us about climate change. Denial of climate science won’t stop the changes from endangering our planet. We need more research on this, not less.
- ...it concluded since the landslide was triggered by the melting glacier, and since *that* happened due to rising global temperatures... This was a signal - and a warning - from our rapidly changing world, heard in every single part of it. Best we listen up. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 10/
- Reposted by Stanford AAUP"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
- Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Stanford AAUP🧪 The head of NSF's computer science directorate, Greg Hager, just resigned. "My ability to carry out my vision, to provide a voice for computing research, and to provide authentic leadership to the community are diminished to the point that I can have more impact outside NSF than within it."
