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04/22/25
Trump's NSF cancels 400 grants to programs for STEM diversity and combating misinformation
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Kasper KArr
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Damn. I received the NSF GRFP a couple years ago. I could only imagine how ppl how feeling right now.
Rick Fox at UNC
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Not a lot of nuance or analysis here. I'm guessing a number of those recently canceled grants were fairly new and likely implemented by the previous administration as some kind of signaling mechanism.
These articles love throwing "programs for STEM diversity" in the title because it raises eyebrows, but it's highly unlikely any significant strides were made in attracting "diverse" (whatever that means) groups into STEM fields.
These articles love throwing "programs for STEM diversity" in the title because it raises eyebrows, but it's highly unlikely any significant strides were made in attracting "diverse" (whatever that means) groups into STEM fields.
Elim Garak
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Both sides are the same.
NobodyReally
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This isn't true. I'm at an HBCU, and people are losing money and scrambling to find other funders because their research specifically targets disinformation or STEM related to Black folks.
*affectsThis only effects white women and tethers
We need these grants now more than ever!!!
Rick Fox at UNC
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This only effects white women and tethers
That's...the truth.
Even if the idea is these grants will help "diverse groups" (whatever that means) downstream, the actual grant money is/was likely procured by some white woman who wrote up a grant proposal while working at a university (ostensibly a PWI -- whatever that means). She was well versed in saying the thing and getting the sign off needed to get the grant money.
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Megan Zahneis (@mzahneis.bsky.social)
Here's a copy of an NSF grant termination notice that went out today. "NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant...on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities." Not subject to appeal. #HigherEd #AcademicSky
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Rick Fox at UNC
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Big part of being at a University (maybe the biggest) is looking for funders to fund meaningful research.
What is meaningful research? Whatever the person who agrees to fund it says it is. How do they know? Either the funder is an insider (unlikely) or someone (the media, politicians, researchers, etc.) sell them on it being important.
Listen, if you ask me to fund your disinformation research, I would tell you--I'm more concerned with building scalable datacenters, nuclear energy, GPU research, DeepSeek, and so on.
Online disinformation is a term that gained favor after the 2016 elections, mainly as a way of justifying who was elected and why. That's great, and there were concerns, but whether it remains an important research topic in 2025 is...
Again, when I say "important," not what you believe is important, but what is actually dominating scientific/engineering, political, and legal circles.
There are finite resources and limited funding, what was deemed important 10 years ago is likely not so important today.
Downplay, deflect, deny...
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Yes
Board has to eventually get rid of trumpers/bothsiders. Members and mods. At least there's a function to block/ignore members. I imagine that you're responding to a" bu bu but/deflection" comment.
Trump campaigned on being against diversity measures, and hit the ground running to end them when his term started. This is yet another instance of him rooting out DEI.
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