NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant
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Re: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant
#2The consequences of this Cultural Revolution will be felt for decades.
Re: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant
#3The past year has been utter chaos, madness, and sadness for STEM in the US. I hope that Tao's grad students don't suffer from this too much in the immediate term. In the long term, all science is being harmed greatly, and we are causing a gigantic bubble in the pipeline of the production of scientists, most severely damaging those who are graduating soon.
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#4Care to provide more context? Does Tao's grants never get rejected?
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#5It is comparatively easy for a mathematician to relocate, given that, like most scientists, they already have world spanning international networks, and unlike other sciences there is no need for expensive lab equipment. Stuff like LIGO is hard to move around, but there is plenty of places in the world that have a good math library.
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#6Care to provide more context? Does Tao's grants never get rejected?
This is not "rejection" this is cancelling an existing grant.
> Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."
https://bsky.app/profile/dangaristo.bsky.social/post/3lvc7ld...
Re: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant
#7Public support for Israel is steadily falling; this poll was published just a couple of days ago https://news.gallup.com/poll/692948/u.s.-back-israel-militar... and other G7 countries are moving to recognise Palestine.
So will the administration's push to use pro-Israel reasons to censure and penalise the universities steadily get out of touch with what the public want and sympathise with?
Re: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant
#8Care to provide more context? Does Tao's grants never get rejected?
Rejected is not the same as suspended. Top scientist and mathematicians sometimes submit grants that are rejected. But suspended is another matter
Re: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant
#9It is comparatively easy for a mathematician to relocate, given that, like most scientists, they already have world spanning international networks, and unlike other sciences there is no need for expensive lab equipment. Stuff like LIGO is hard to move around, but there is plenty of places in the world that have a good math library.
I'm guessing that Terence really wants to be surrounded by thinkers of his calibre. So he gravitated to the ivy league. Perhaps in the future there will be a new gravity well where these minds congregate?
Re: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant
#10more like: UCLA grants are targeted by NSF and some of them are suspended including Tao's