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Today's Topics:
1. Trump's attack on science (Antony Barry)
2. Meta's Gibberlink Mode: AI Language Breakthrough Sparks Fears
of Unchecked Autonomy (Antony Barry)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:32:14 +1100
From: Antony Barry <[email protected]>
To: Link list <[email protected]>
Subject: [LINK] Trump's attack on science
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The Trump
administration<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration> is
stripping away support for scientific research in the US and overseas that
contains a word it finds particularly inconvenient: ?climate.?
The US government is withdrawing grants and other support for research that
even references the climate crisis, academics have said, amid Donald Trump?s
blitzkrieg upon environmental
regulations<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/19/trump-fossil-fuel-climate>
and clean-energy
development<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/17/red-states-solar-trump-funding-freeze>.
?.
Researchers said work mentioning climate is being particularly targeted. One
environmental scientist working in the western US who did not want to be named
said their previously awarded grant from the Department of Transportation for
climate-adaption research had been withdrawn, until they retitled it to remove
the word ?climate?.
?.
?Specifically, references to ?climate change? and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion) have been removed or revised to align with the new priorities,? an
administrator at the center wrote. ?Please exercise caution when referencing
these topics during instruction.?
The administration?s animus towards climate research has even extended overseas
via the US?s Fulbright exchange program, which offers about 8,000 grants a year
to American and foreign teachers and scholars.
Kaarle H?meri, chancellor of the University of Helsinki in Finland, said the
descriptions for Fulbright grants had been changed to remove or alter the words
?climate change?, as well as ?equitable society?, ?inclusive societies? and
?women in society?.
?.
At the National Science Foundation (NSF), a $9bn federal agency that supports
research in science and engineering, teams have been combing through active
projects
looking<https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/02/04/national-science-foundation-trump-executive-orders-words/>
for dozens of words, including ?women?, ?biased? and ?equality? that may
violate Trump?s ban on certain grants.
The NSF, which has just
fired<https://www.npr.org/2025/02/18/nx-s1-5301049/national-science-foundation-fires-roughly-10-of-its-workforce>
about 10% of its workforce, did not respond to questions over whether climate
is also on the banned list. Regardless, grants supporting an array of
scientific work have been frozen amid this zealous mission to install a
newspeak among scientists, despite a court order demanding the freeze be
reversed.
?[The] NSF is working expeditiously to conduct a comprehensive review of our
projects, programs and activities to be compliant with the existing executive
orders,? a foundation spokesperson said.
The freeze on grants has upended scientific work across federal agencies,
hospitals and universities, placing the future of hundreds of millions of
dollars? of research into question.
?The people most vulnerable in our society in terms of health and public safety
are now even further at risk,? said Jennifer Jones, director of the center for
science and democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:52:25 +1100
From: Antony Barry <[email protected]>
To: Link list <[email protected]>
Subject: [LINK] Meta's Gibberlink Mode: AI Language Breakthrough
Sparks Fears of Unchecked Autonomy
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