Words flagged in search of current NSF awards • Hacker News Board

Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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Post by drawkward » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 2:49 PM UTC

for a group of people who wants to get politics out of science, they sure just injected a bunch of politics into science.

MAGA is a death cult.

Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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Post by footy » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 2:49 PM UTC

glitchc wrote: post #3

drawkward wrote: post #2

thus begins the end of pax americana; you can't have a space-age economy if you don't have science.

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hi my partner is a neuroscientist and multiple words on this list appear on any one of her proposals. She doesn't even work with humans.

If you think this only affects social sciences you don't have the requisite knowledge to have an opinion here.

Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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Post by bhouston » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 2:49 PM UTC

drawkward wrote: post #23

bhouston wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that relates to talking about history in a way that may make white people feel bad about it: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/01/florida-sb-148-racis...

Are you trying to justify or explain?

I don't support this action by Trump and I am linking to an article that criticizes the Florida bill. But it is trying to explain/justify why this word may be banned based referencing the ideological background that is motivating it.

Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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Post by drawkward » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 2:50 PM UTC

whatshisface wrote: post #19

j7ake wrote: post #5

RIP statisticians and Ml researchers who use the word “bias” in their work.

In 2055, anti-wokeists will have banned "bias," and wokeists will have banned "weight." Following defeat in the pan-Eastern bent ground war, hawks will ban "loss." They will be renamed plusses, and double plusses, and ungood.

good. /s

Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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Post by drawkward » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 2:51 PM UTC

slackfan wrote: post #9

Freedom of speech does not imply freedom of funding.

unless it is for right wing political campaigns! then it is all good, per Citizens United

Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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Post by kardianos » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 2:51 PM UTC

elashri wrote: post #14

In particle physics we usually use these terms which will be at any proposal. This is an interesting textbook definition of false positives when you have list that is using too common words. - Minimum "Biased" data - "Discrimination" or "Discriminatory" variables - Phase space "excluded" - "Inclusion" of data/variable/anything - "inequality" -> wow bell's inequality and all this theory work about inequalities will be…

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Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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Post by zellyn » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 2:51 PM UTC

Why did this just plummet to page three? Very weird.

[Edit] A few seconds later, I cannot find it no matter how many times I click "more".

Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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Post by bhouston » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 2:52 PM UTC

jimmar wrote: post #15

Anybody have the actual source of the list? It purports to be from a program officer, but how do we know?

Science article on it: https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-nsf-starts...

Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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Post by sam345 » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 2:52 PM UTC

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Re: Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

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Post by TheAceOfHearts » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 2:52 PM UTC

What I find most disappointing and frustrating is that accessibility has gotten caught in the crosshairs of this anti-DEI crusade. I expect this will lead to a lot of suffering among the most vulnerable groups of people.