Re:The U.S. Is Driving Away Young Scientists
by stevenbedrick on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:05AM
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It's not just AI researchers worrying about this specific issue! I personally had to revise wording in NIH grant applications, and have many stories from colleagues about awkward phone calls they have gotten from their program officers about this or that word in their project description, or even this or that _column_ in their projects' data products.
Re:The U.S. Is Driving Away Young Scientists
by zemoerfi on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:07AM
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No idea why you are being downvoted. Everything you said is literally true and a genuine concern for researchers.
The right was so concerned about what you couldn't say because it maybe damaged your credibility. But what we're having now is that same group doing find and replace cuts on grants that use a laundry list of banned words.
Re:The U.S. Is Driving Away Young Scientists
by ModernMech on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:35AM
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What I'm saying here might seem hyperbolic to some, but these are the discussions I'm hearing at faculty meetings.
I was pretty astounded and heartbroken watching my colleagues pass around a list of banned words so they could scrub their proposals. Then again, what options do they have? Either you get money from the government, corporations who have a very narrow idea of what they want to research, or you move to a country that takes research seriously.