10.7B endowment. Clearly can't make it without federal funds.
Readit Newsmuaytimbo commented on 2025 Hiring Pause hr.cornell.edu/2025-hirin... · Posted by u/MinimalAction
22.3 billion endowment. Maybe they can fund a little research without taxpayers?
muaytimbo commented on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/perihelions
giving DOGE sudo is a whole article?
muaytimbo commented on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF science.org/content/blog-... · Posted by u/rrock
I don't know. Can you elaborate?
I will elaborate, for the intentionally obtuse and for people who have not lived in the world of academia. When writing NIH grants you typically have a section describing prior foundational work in the field or in the lab itself that the grant proposes to fund.
In our lab, at the time I was there, the majority of our publications were from 2 white and a chinese male. When writing grant proposals to continue this work (to be continued by the same 3 chemists) the gender/racial characteristics of other members of the lab who were female and of other racial backgrounds were described in great detail, even though they had not contributed to the prior work and were not going to continue the project in the future. Our backgrounds were left unmentioned. This was the way to secure funding was what the PI in our lab told me when I inquired about the glaring discrepancy.
It is my opinion that backgrounds should be irrelevant and funding should be granted on the strength of the proposal. That's not the case today.
EDIT: I left academia in 2013, maybe things have changed.
muaytimbo commented on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF science.org/content/blog-... · Posted by u/rrock
It's past time these institutions were audited. I had an NSF fellowship and was on numerous NIH grants during my PhD work (Chemist). All of them, even in 2013, had DEI language that made it clear if you were a white/chinese/indian male you were not going to be funded. The institutions, already, were self sabotaging, doling out tons of taxpayer money, not to the best ideas, but to labs that had a few women of various colors other than white working in them. It pushed me and almost all of the other chemists (who were generally white/chinese/indian males) in my class to leave the field either after our PhD or post-doc.
Can you elaborate? Quick scan of her Wikipedia entry and top Google hits doesn’t indicate an authoritarian bent. They all list her as a center-left progressive.
Center left is already authoritarian IMO. She’s definitely not the worst, her views are on her medium: https://medium.com/@marietje.schaake
Take from it what you will.
This very article reeks of authoritarianism. Read her blog, not the first time she’s advocated for bureaucratic regulation of tech companies.
The author is an authoritarian lawmaker. This is a false flag to consolidate additional power over the last vestige of the free Internet.
muaytimbo commented on California bans legacy admissions at private universities nytimes.com/2024/09/30/us... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
CA wants to control who sits on private company's boards and who can be admitted to private school's student bodies. Is there any limitation on what CA can require of a non-public entity in the state?
muaytimbo commented on Sweden will offer migrants $34k to go home nytimes.com/2024/09/13/wo... · Posted by u/geox
What is the purpose of the 34k? Why not just put them on a plane back to their country of origin?
Are they not able to be found?
One set of rules for the ruled and another for the rulers. This is well known, what’s new here?