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Andrew Dessler (andrewdessler@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 19-Apr-2025 02:05:03 JST Andrew Dessler

I know discussions of university overhead sound boring but, hang with me, they're important. I wrote something about why, if you care about science in America, you should care about overhead.
https://thebulletin.org/2025/04/make-china-great-again-how-trumps-attacks-on-universities-will-backfire/
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  Make China great again? How Trump’s attacks on universities will backfire
  
  from Jessica McKenzie
  
  In the name of saving 0.006 percent of the federal budget, we’re surrendering America’s technological leadership.
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  Andrew Dessler (andrewdessler@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 19-Apr-2025 02:05:01 JST Andrew Dessler
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  The likely result? Critical research will relocate to "China, Europe, and other regions with rational research funding models." This policy will surrender America's competitive edge and benefit our economic, intellectual, and military competitors. Like China.
  
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  Andrew Dessler (andrewdessler@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 19-Apr-2025 02:05:02 JST Andrew Dessler
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  The gov't is slashing university research overhead rates, claiming it saves money. Overhead funds essential infrastructure that enables research: HVAC, IT support, lab construction, and admin - not waste. Cutting this means that univ. will be unable to afford to conduct research.
  
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  HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Apr-2025 02:40:57 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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  #AlignmentOfScience 1933/2025
  #RememberTiananmenSquare
  #USpol
  "Critical research will relocate to "👉#China👈, Europe, and other regions with rational research funding models."
  "... China..."?!?
  👇
  As the Soanish philosopher and Autor George #Santayana said:
  «Los que no pueden recordar el pasado están condenados a repetirlo."
  (👉Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.👈)
  Also: #RemberTheManhattanProject! --Would #Xi have been as scrupulous if POTUS?!?
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  HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Apr-2025 02:53:31 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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  #EmigrateNow!
  Even for people not being Jews, the history if the German Jews should be a blood-red warning sign:
  " of the 522,000 Jews living in Germany in January 1933, approximately 304,000 emigrated during the first six years of Nazi rule and about 214,000 were left on the eve of #world War II. Of these, 160,000–180,000 were killed as a part of the #Holocaust...
  ...inspection checkpoints, leading to 65 percent of all submerged #Jews...
  
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  ... detained and likely deported. On 19 May 1943, 👉only about 20,000 Jews remained... "👈 1)
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  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Germany
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    History of the Jews in Germany
    
    The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321 CE, and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High Middle Ages (c. 1000–1299 CE) when Jewish immigrants founded the Ashkenazi Jewish community. The community survived under Charlemagne, but suffered during the Crusades. Accusations of well poisoning during the Black Death (1346–53) led to mass slaughter of German Jews, while others fled in large numbers to Poland. The Jewish communities of the cities of Mainz, Speyer and Worms became the center of Jewish life during medieval times. "This was a golden age as area bishops protected the Jews, resulting in increased trade and prosperity." The First Crusade began an era of persecution of Jews in Germany. Entire communities, like those of Trier, Worms, Mainz and Cologne, were slaughtered. The Hussite Wars became the signal for renewed persecution of Jews. The end of the 15th century was a period of religious hatred that ascribed to Jews all possible evils. With Napoleon's fall in 1815, growing nationalism resulted in increasing repression. From August to October...
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  #EmigrateNow!
  ... The #GreatPurge (1933)
  “If the dismissal of #Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years!” — #AdolfHitler
  See the future US in the mirror?
  "Prior to the 1930s, 👉#Germany had dominated the natural sciences for more than one hundred and fifty years.👈 Its reputation for excellence in chemistry, physics, biology, medicine...
  https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-great-purge-of-1933-9f0
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    The Great Purge (1933)
    
    from Jørgen Veisdal
    
    “If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years!” — Adolf Hilter
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  ... #USpol #AlignmentOfScience
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  #EmigrateNow!
  ... The #GreatPurge (1933)
  ... mathematics was rivaled, if at all, only by Britain (Medawar & Pyke, 2000). Of the 100 #Nobel Prizes awarded between the years of 1901 and 1932 (the year before #Hitler came to power), 33 had been awarded to #Germans and/or scientists working in #Germany...
  ... Then, starting in..
  
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  #EmigrateNow!
  ... The #GreatPurge (1933)
  ... 1933 with the #Nazi party’s seizure of control in #Germany and their passing of the #Berufsbeamtengesetz (“Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service”), certain groups of public employees were dimissed from #German universities. That is, 👉civil servants who did not fit the #Nazi racial or societal ideal had to leave their jobs in...
  
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  HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Apr-2025 03:09:12 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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  ... #USpol #AlignmentOfScience
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  #EmigrateNow!
  ... The #GreatPurge (1933)
  #EmigrateNow!
  ... More than 250 #Jewish professors and employees were fired from the University of #Berlin in 1933–34 and numerous doctorates were withdrawn. 👉In May, some 20,000 books written by “degenerates” and opponents of the Nazi regime were removed from the university library and burned in the #Babelplatz ... 👈"
  Read on... On...
  
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  HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Apr-2025 03:11:03 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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  #USpol #AlignmentOfScience
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  #EmigrateNow!
  ... The #GreatPurge (1933)
  #EmigrateNow!
  ... your way to the border or the airport:
  https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-great-purge-of-1933-9f0
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  The Yangsi Michael Dillon (anantagd@ieji.de)'s status on Saturday, 19-Apr-2025 04:19:05 JST The Yangsi Michael Dillon
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  @HistoPol @andrewdessler More specifically, it was the library of Hirschfeld' s Institute, that was burned on Bebelplatz. It wasn' t "University Libraries", the book burning was specifally aimed.
  
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  HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Apr-2025 04:22:49 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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  Targeting that new institute would have made a lot of (perverted) sense.
  However, this was a scientific paper by an associate professor.
  How is it, that you know more, if I may ask?
  @andrewdessler
  
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