Duke University appears to have lost research grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic material, translational studies and signal transduction
Source: Duke Chronicle
So I learned something yesterday, from someone who is in the world of research.
The trope about researchers spending most of their time applying for grants is no joke. Universities don't pay researchers; the researchers get paid from the grant money they receive. If they also have a teaching position, they might get a tiny tiny bit from the university, but that's it.
So when federal grants get halted, there's a whole bunch of people who do important research basically put out of work immediately. The kicker is that a fair amount of the research being funded is ongoing research, where if you just "stop doing it," all the previous work is ruined. Because there's a lot of things you can't just stop, put on a shelf, and restart later.
Little t's war on universities is more serious than you might think.
After her latest research project got defunded by the government, my wife got 4 job offers. 3 short term projects that were perfect for her, 1 permanent contract that she didn't really want to do. She took the latter because fuck this shit.
If they also have a teaching position, they might get a tiny tiny bit from the university, but that’s it.
Granted this is a best-case scenario, but the salaries for profs at my alma-mater (a public tier 1 research university) are public and I looked one of them up once. He was getting well into six-figures for teaching classes.
Yeah, from what I see, professors get their salary i.e. the money for living expenses from their teaching job. But most of the research money comes from grants. Those are usually earmarked so that they can only spend it for very specific purposes.
Edit: This is only true for people who need to run labs. For subjects like math or philosophy, professors depend less on grants since most of their work is done without significant expenses. But they still do need grants for travel and organizing conferences.
If at all, this applies only to profs, which is a tiny subset of researchers and insanely hard to get into. Everyone else is paid shit and 80+% depend on grants. Source: am researcher
As far as I can work out about this USA, this is not true. It is certainly not true where I am from. It may be true in the case of postdoctoral researchers (but not always), i.e. relatively junior researchers who don't yet have a permanent position. But a permanent position is just that - it's like a permanent job, and you're paid a salary by the university that gave you that position. You will typically also need to apply for grants in order to pay for things like:
I did two postdocs during my time in academia and both were grant funded (one awarded to me, one awarded to a more senior researcher who then took me on as a postdoc). I also applied to one postdoc position I remember which although fixed term, not permanent, was paid for by the university. I worked with many permanent staff who had salaries from the university as well as grants for other things.
As far as I can tell in the USA the only real difference is that your salary may only be for the 9 teaching months, not the full academic year, and you're expected to top up those 3 months if you want to be paid a proper wage.
Still, the people on permanent positions are rare and act as the masterminds behind the research rather than doing research themselves. Professors are guiding their PhDs and postdocs through experiments and writing. If all these people that are more or less early in their careers that are working on Grant money get defunded, than even Professors cannot really do science anymore cause they lack the staff... And of course this future Generation of Professors is looking for other Jobs or leaving the US if they can.
Fascism is incredibly dangerous and destructive, but it's also SO fucking stupid.
No it's just stupid, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan were all fascistic and could be described as a cavalcade of idiots. A good example is Germany's so called wonder weapons where the only one which was both effective and decently cheap was the V1 rocket, everything else was a waste of time and effort that if any other country did would've gotten someone shot.
Wait till they find out all their big trucks have transmissions.
Wait.. Are you telling me they WEREN'T born with those balls under the tailgate?
Man, say what you will about truck culture, and I’ll probably agree, but I fuckin’ love truck nuts. I don’t know why, I don’t think it’s just immaturity because bodily humor isn’t usually my thing. But something about truck nuts makes me laugh.
I especially love that they trigger people enough that some places ban them.
that’s for Big Balls Broccoli Top to decide
Combustion motors are more trans than EV's apparently.
Most EVs have transmissions, they’re just usually single-speed. They have to adjust the RPM of the electric motor to a speed usable by the wheels.
Some have two-speed gearboxes, like the Porsche Taycan. This is needed because EV motors produce full torque at 0RPM and it stays there as the power increases, but eventually you reach a point where the power plateaus and the torque falls off. If you want more power at high speeds, you have to use a second gear.
This just in, Koeningsegg Regera sales up 10000% in red states!
(it doesn't have a transmission)
(an increase of 10000% over 0 is still 0)
There are probably a few Texans that could afford it, but probably appear have the Hennessy scam car instead.
I knew it! It's been the trans mission all along to create big auto and make us a car centric society. It's the trans fault! Come on Donny put a stop to the trans mission and ban all cars with a trans mission.
The government AI got confused
It’s A but it ain’t I
Also does a recent college intern hitting ctrl-f and delete over and over count as AI?
This is same boneheaded DOGE AI that will soon decide whether you should lose your voting rights, due process rights, or citizenship for belonging to the terrorist organization Antifa.
The actually smart AI is the one Palantir will be using to deanonymize all your posts on the internet and hand off the results to the first one.
Cis and trans are also very commonly used to describe bonds in chemistry. Cis bonds are both on the same side, trans bonds point in opposite directions (think trans-fats). That's a rudimentary explanation but the point is cis and trans have been used in the sciences long before trans people were discussed.
So silly to lose grants over, even if the research was actually about cis and trans humans.
'cis' being the opposite of 'trans' in regards to gender is literally borrowed from chemistry
These are the same people that would've supported the trans-atlantic slave trade.
They should remove the transmission from their cars, just weld the engine directly to a wheel, not efficiënt but it won't turn the boys into girls.
No, they need to stop using transportation altogether. I'd love to see a trend of repugnicans cutting off their legs to "own the libs."
This is not a mistake. Destroying science is the point, transphobia is an excuse.
finally a proper use case for this saying
gack. I used to be in microbiology. This will decimate fields doing some amazing things right now.
no more transformations or trans molecules, transmission is extra banned with Brainworm believing into miasma instead of germ theory
sic transit tyrranis
People are losing research grants for using the words "female" and "woman" too. Not a single thought went into this list.
And yet the GOP has women supporters despite the fact that it's obvious they are trying to demarginalize them.
It's lunacy.
Handmaid's Tale.
Wonder how research on black maternal mortality is being treated.
Considering how many of the women that have died due to Dobbs have been women of color… if one was “pro life” the fact that black women being 3.5 times more likely to die in childbirth should be concerning.
Someone tell them microphones can be described as a transducer, maybe they'll quieten down. I guess all combustion engines , furnaces and motors / generators are too technically.
Make america amish again
I don't know, sounds like someone who uses the wrong bathroom to me
dumbfucks are using regex improperly.
they're using /.*(trans).*/ instead of /\s{1,}(trans)[- (sexual|[fe]*male)]*\s{1,}/
You are giving DOGE way too much credit for actual using code. DOGE most likely hit CRTL+F and typed in "Trans" and called it a day.
Yup. Seems that way.
You really think they know regex?
They probably got grok to generate it and didn't understand what it does
The "Scunthorpe Problem" strikes again!
Big Balls followed the golden rule of "Move fast and break things" . Shit happens!! /s
Move fast and break things works well when you're not breaking your own things
Spoiler is to prevent it from helping them, being dumbfucks who won't be smart enoygh to open it.
Maggats are basically cattle. They have animal rights but not human rights.
Time to complain on truth social to Donald.
Why is my deal proposal not answered which was send in a mail with subject: "Transactional relationship improvement by affirmation of 100 million dollars to the expression program of the Trump foundation"
Can relate: I took my car in to get the manual transmission serviced and now I'm all woke.
Government: cd / && rg -l trans | xargs rm -f
I'm sure it'll go well.
rm trans
This is more than mildly infuriating imo...
they really implemented a regex filter on scientific papers ? lol that's beyond idiocy
but hey at least the voters identify with the main idiot in charge
This is not really "mildly infuriating" and you should make the link point to the article, not to a screenshot from it.
It's quite literally impossible to do any study in chemistry and biology, given the abundance if trans- and cis- molecules. This is the correct label to describe the spatial organisation of the molecule in the space it occupies (bonds and their relstive effect on the structure if the molecule). If you do chemistry you must use these terms.
This just in, DOGE is fucking stupid
Whoever came up with that stupid word filter and decided to follow through on it without proper human review that the filter matched what they meant to find, is pretty trans-intelligent.
Tbf ...this is a common problem
I have tremendous respect for the heroic citizens of Penistone.
Yes it's very common, which is why everyone of even mild intelligence knows to check the results of a plain full text search.
This is what happens when the stupid try to manage the smart.
The stupid and evil!
Soviet Union ... Maoist ...
These motherfuckers never even learned what a prefix was in 4th grade.
Wow, that's so stupid. Absurdistan looks more and more like a documentary.
That's how fucking stupid they who are enforcing this garbage are. Word processors have for decades allowed searching for "whole words only", which would stop these words from being flagged. The tech exists, they're just too stupid and lazy to implement it.
I have the same complaint against anyone using banned word lists, including Reddit, who does the same damn thing.
America, so great, wow.
I lost funding because I was attempting to revive the transatlantic accent for use in films.
/this was a joke.
foreach (word in researchPaper) {
if (word.ToLower().StartsWith("trans")) {
shouldGiveFunding = false;
}
}
Transformer-coupled transimpedance transistor amplifiers are also verboten.
They will do nothing about this until crypto transfers are banned....
Spoke with a lady. Whose husband is losing his 20 year job at a defense contractor. Because they got doged. Super sad stuff.
Is this some DOGE script that Big Ballzzz whipped up by asking ChatGPT for a bash script to Make America Great Again?
Transistors are out. It's back to ENIAC tube tech. While I detest carrying around a phone-computer today, it's going to be hella worse when I need to carry it in a series of commercial trucks or railcars and plug it into the grid when I get to my destination.
probably some kinda transmission error
Oh dear. Wealthy alumni should donate harder.
"Only about 40% of the Cruz woke science database is woke science" - (a critique by somebody who's anti-woke.)
At this rate, I am surprised the National TRANSportation Safety Board is still a thing in the US.