It certainly is when people are typing the word "black" into the search field when deciding what programs need to be cut...

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vjvjvjvjghv 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To be honest, research funding turned stupid before DOGE. I remember talking a guy who was struggling to write the mandatory diversity statement for a grant in quantum computing.

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Ar-Curunir 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Whatever diversity sections were required in grant proposals are nothing compared to the situation right now.

If your guy couldn’t say stuff like we will do outreach to local CCs, will design summer research programs, etc, then they’re just not a very good grant writer

	▲	albedoa 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's every time with these freaks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44294782

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rurp 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Seriously. I hope everyone understands that this literally happened at a massive scale. So many projects were killed simply because the project name had a word on the banned words list. The idiots at doge and elsewhere have simply ctrl+f searched "woke" terms and ended projects without the faintest idea of what they were killing. All in the name of saving negative federal dollars.