What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

Re:What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF by gameman144 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @04:13AM (#42945988)

I can speak to one instance of this (which was before COVID and the events surrounding George Floyd, so apply context as needed), but I took a class on networking implementations in low-budget and rural regions.

As part of the curriculum, there were distinct lessons (in this hard-science course) on feminist design, avoiding white-savior rollouts, and cultural relativism -- with much room to expound on their importance, and little room to critique.

I happened to agree with lots of the mindsets of these lessons a priori, but I was definitely acutely aware the whole course that there was an ideological bent, even in STEM.

The networking stack obviously had no viewpoint, but the course teaching it certainly did.

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Re:What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF by jimkleiber on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:55AM (#42946768)

I don't know if networking implementations in low-budget and rural regions is a purely STEM topic. The mere fact it talks about low-budget and rural regions suggests to me it interacts with geography and sociology and development economics, which to me makes sense that it'd incorporate ideas from those fields as well.

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