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   Kieran Healy (kjhealy@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 20:33:31 JST Kieran Healy

   Nature reports that the NSF has stopped funding awardees entirely, “until further notice”. This administration is determined to destroy the country’s scientific research infrastructure by choking off funding and taking a wrecking ball to the merit review system.

   https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2

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     Kieran Healy (kjhealy@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 20:34:38 JST Kieran Healy

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     Are the various problems with the NSF’s merit review and grant allocation system best served by simply destroying it and replacing it with groyper commissars whose views are based on a combination of social media forum screenshots and YouTubers who want to sell you supplements? In this essay I w

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     Dan Riley (dan131riley@federate.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 23:27:36 JST Dan Riley

     • Kim Scheinberg

     @kims @kjhealy My impression is that VCs can be very limited in long-term strategic thinking--see e.g. Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto. Two actions by the Biden admin conflicted with the "effective accelerationism" agenda: anti-trust enforcement, and regulating crypto as a financial instrument. Trump courted them by going all-in on crypto, even openly accepting bribes via bitcoin. They may also think that less regulation of private research can offset the destruction of gov funding.