I thought science memes were funny, not soul crushing 🤕
RIP America
Submitted 2 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Midnitte@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When people’s businesses start being revolked, sold off by the government, or smashed up, you can be pretty sure there’s going to be a more systemic genocide.
So watch out for that happening.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
were already in a US ethnic cleansing, genocide is next
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Europe is infinitely welcoming of these people, they’ll always have a place here.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We need to up our game on many many fronts. We need more investment and harder turn toward deomcratic socialism to fully reap what is being sown.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Canada has also been increasingly welcoming American expat academics and medical professionals.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well, that happened to Germany back in the 1930s/40s. Before that, about 1/3 of Nobel Prizes went to German scientists.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Of course a large percentage of those German scientists were Jewish, weren’t they?
koper@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
But seemingly most of these numbers are students?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Who do you think does a lot of the legwork in the lab and becomes the next generation of scientists?
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When a mommy scientist and daddy scientist love each other a lot, they pray to Caffeine and Nicotine, the gods of late-night trivial tasks…
BlazeDaley@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Graduate students provide enormous value for their cost in funding. I’d like to better understand how k-12 students contribute here. Those students make up 88.7k of the reduction. How much do these students contribute and at what cost?
I’m in no way against inspiring the next generation. My question is aimed at correctly interpreting this table. The NSF is a worthwhile expense, but let’s understand the data we have.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
they do, sadly they are recognized well, unless your in a independant lab(not part of the degree)
DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Professional scientists and researchers are famous for spontaneously popping out of the aether like quantum foam, completely disconnected from any causality or prior state of being.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
And…?
koper@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
The tweet gave me the impression that these people lose their jobs. But it turns out that’s not entirely true, because it also counts undergrad and preK students who participate in a program one way or another. That’s still bad, but not as bad as the tweet suggests.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
you do realize graduate and undergrad students do research in labs as part of thier degree, or lab experience right. they are indeed researchers, just not labeled as such by employers to pay them a wage or any benefits. and also they do most of the lab work as well, the postdocs/PI are the ones drumming up the IDEA, and implementing some of the experiments. if you go to any research paper from a science journal you can sometime see graduate and undergraduate researcher as part of the affliate"acknowlegement of the paper.
koper@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
As I understand these NSF-funded research projects are only part of the entire curriculum. So it would be a misrepresentation to say that the US is “getting rid of” these students. They will still study and get a degree, they’ll just have a harder time finding an appropriate research project. That’s still bad, but not the same as what is claimed by the tweet.
Tetragrade@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Huge news for the war odds. ✍️
foggianism@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Keep on winning, America!
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The better to fascist you with, my dear
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
That’s how the 3. Reich started.
oyzmo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Stupid people are easier to rule and fool.
Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
This is good actually, because it will reduce the brain drain of other countries.
olafurp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What’s the term when a country has a brain drain but caused by itself?
ewo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Idiocy!
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Fascism.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
MrSulu@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
This doesn’t really save money. It does however create a burning of the books effect.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I dont think anyone cares about money anymore.
They can see the problems arising from climate change on the horizon and they’re creating a ruling class and a subservient class.
If you’re part of the ruling class you dont need money.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
RIP america is music to my ears.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
because that 300000 people fired will allow them to have 300 high ranking CEOs
kikutwo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve figured this out. If MAGA gets rid of all the smart people, they won’t seem as dumb anymore!
Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
This reminds me of a particularly hilarious scene from The Death of Stalin where they have all the country’s best doctors lined up to save Stalin after his heart attack, but they are all bumbling idiots and Stalins men get angry about how incompetent they are until someone reminds them that Stalin literally killed all the best and most capable doctors in the soviet union out of paranoia.
And so, Stalin dies.
kikutwo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Here’s to hoping for a similar result.