I meant R-WY --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505
505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 5:03 PM Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote: > Somebody asked Allen Simpson D-WY what is politics. He said, "Poli means > many and Tics are blood-sucking insects." > > He just died so they showed that clip during his obituary. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 4:53 PM Nicholas Thompson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> These contributions, interesting In their own right , constitute the most >> egregiously bent thread that has ever been foisted on friam. Am I being >> rebuked for offering lame Political commentary, or are your guys just >> clueless? >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM steve smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> It seems to me they haven’t this through so good. Thousands of NIH, >>> NSF, and DOE funded scientists out on the international market. Add to >>> that reduced regulation on advanced scientific equipment and services. >>> Augment with a general sense of doom and self-interest and alienation from >>> their country of origin. Sounds like a recipe for foreign-based companies >>> to scoop them up, if not other governments. I won’t suggest particulars, >>> but I think it is obvious how this could result in bad outcomes. >>> >>> My molecular biologist daughter is in the breach/sights of this >>> nonsense. She dedicated her career to 3rd-world focused virology (flavi >>> like West Nile, Dingue, Zika) and is now faced with the triple-whammy of >>> reduced funding/interest in third-world problems, reduced *health* funding, >>> and the spirit that suggests as a woman in science she might somehow have >>> gotten her funding through DEI biases. She is not a candidate for >>> "defecting" to China or Russia in this context but has been made crazy by >>> watching her mid-career colleagues defect from academic research to >>> profit-focused big pharma. She got pulled off Flavi's to chase Coronas >>> for a year or more because her institution had more funding than they >>> could spend and her funding was a little more fungible... I think she >>> can (probably) hang in there through the current storm (years) but not >>> clear and it might actually be better for her (career) to move to a >>> European Institution (though I don't know if that is even possible given >>> what EricS suggested about demand/supply. >>> >>> After the fall of the Soviet Union, I participated in a brief project >>> reviewing US State Dept proposals by (former) Soviet scientists seeking an >>> alternative to becomeing rogue nuclear scientists for who knows? Seems >>> like we are about to have our own problem of that nature? >>> .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. >>> / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >>> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >>> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >>> archives: 5/2017 thru present >>> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >>> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >>> >> .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / >> ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: 5/2017 thru present >> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> >
.- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
