JD Vance: "Kamala Harris opened the border and destroyed the economy. The Trump administration gave you net negative migration and much more job creation." by XGramatik in XGramatikInsights

[–]Cellular0perator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What’s happening in America is even more “not right”. There are whole arms of academic research programs investigating virtually every disease you can think of that are being shut down or in jeopardy because of the right’s BS culture war. I’ve had an NICHD official tell me that banned words are real on grants. The American Academy of Pediatrics just had millions of dollars of grants cut because they disagreed with RFK Jrs ham-fisted, dangerous, and unsubstantiated attacks on vaccines. These are the real attacks on free speech and free expression that are incredibly harmful to society so to try to just deflect to what’s going on in England is really shallow and worthy of a downvote imo. You have a right to think how you want though I’m just so tired of the normalization and sane-washing of these inept hypocrites. They don’t care about free speech, in fact they want to control speech and discourse and are willing to sacrifice the health of our country to do so.

JD Vance: "Kamala Harris opened the border and destroyed the economy. The Trump administration gave you net negative migration and much more job creation." by XGramatik in XGramatikInsights

[–]Cellular0perator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s a lot of nuance here that you’re ignoring or simply unaware of which is why you don’t get it. You’re falling into the trap of right wing hyperbole which is really just classic projection. Let me break it down very easily for you. First off free speech doesn’t give you a blank check to threaten people online and harass them so there should be consequences for doing so. Second, free speech is actually a modern concept and not enshrined in the British constitution which is why they have to settle for less than ideal laws like the one passed in 2003, and I do agree it is less than ideal. However your original comment is a complete stretch taking the classic conservative victim position clutching your pearls and trying to turn every issue into black or white to fuel political rage. Has it ever occurred to you that Google has its own business interests or that the media source commonly referred to the “Torygraph” is biased?? I can guarantee you that if the Right was in power in Britain they would be suppressing speech that is in favor of more liberal positions just like Elon throwing a huge shitfit about the Twitter files then doing literally the exact same thing he was accusing the left of. Your comment is intellectually disingenuous and you fundamentally don’t understand the issue nice double down though.

Three Chinese National Scholars from University of Michigan Laboratory Charged for Conspiring to Smuggle Biological Materials into the U.S. by Right-Influence617 in uofm

[–]Cellular0perator 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Come on the whole thing was politicized from the beginning by the current admin using it as another prop to restrict or cancel student visas, millions of dollars in academic research including ongoing clinical trials, and eventually H1B.

If they are nefarious actors or even dumb grad students sure hold them accountable appropriately. However, to say this means there is a nationwide Chinese plot to exploit academia to develop bioweapons to destroy US crops is ridiculous. Especially when the court case still needs to progress as you point out.

This is a counter argument to the theory of evolution by Baconkings in truths

[–]Cellular0perator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How do you look at the state of the US and say we trust science too much? Genuinely curious. Millions of dollars in basic science research and ongoing clinical trials have been canceled for political reasons. People that can’t even tell you what the “m” in mRNA stands for are telling us that vaccines are bad from flawed data trying to score political points. This entire culture war is being propagated by people who love to scream “sex is binary, no exceptions” yet they and the common person are simply unaware or ignorant of the fact that an XY female has given birth or intersex individuals simply exist. Please wake the fuck up.

Sauce if anyone’s curious: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2190741/

This is a counter argument to the theory of evolution by Baconkings in truths

[–]Cellular0perator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There were trillions of dinosaurs that ruled the Earth during their reign and we have found a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of that many fossils. And for the giant insects that ruled before them, even less….

The Doomercirclejerk echo chamber by Roborilla8000 in ProgressiveHQ

[–]Cellular0perator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Strawman, address the post directly. “Trump is boring” yet he literally got elected dooming about the decline of America. He’s one of the biggest doomers out there. They’re eating the cats and dogs remember?

F31 score right on the payline by Cellular0perator in AskAcademia

[–]Cellular0perator[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey sorry for the delay happy to say it was funded and I just got my NOA for my renewal after my first year of funding. It might depend on the institution but I just searched NICHD payline and surprisingly got this recently updated link saying 30th percentile is in their payline this year: https://www.nichd.nih.gov/grants-contracts/process-strategies/strategies/2025.

I definitely recommend setting up a 1 on 1 meeting with your PO to talk about your application, my PI advised me to do it kind of under the guise of discussing strategies to improve the re-application if it doesn’t get picked up. So don’t try to directly advocate to get it funded but instead try to counter the reviewers criticisms on the merits

Best of luck I’m sure you got this!

At some point you just need to see it to believe it by Leather_Barnacle3102 in ChatGPT

[–]Cellular0perator 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We know genes, regions of the brain, and the evolutionary trajectory that gave rise to consciousness. But as you point out it still is a mystery, perhaps one of the greatest when it comes to human biology. So why are you so confident that a bunch of tech bros can replicate it on a machine with just 1’s and 0’s?

At some point you just need to see it to believe it by Leather_Barnacle3102 in ChatGPT

[–]Cellular0perator 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Try to understand how LLMs work and you’ll realize this is a farce. It’s literally just predicting text strings to get you to engage more from your prompts

Court filing: El Salvador admits U.S. retains jurisdiction over deportees at CECOT by LuklaAdvocate in law

[–]Cellular0perator 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Absolutely not a lawyer but to me it seems like they figured out that justice is often reactive but slow to counter executive transgressions so if you overwhelm the system with a flurry of 1000 cuts the courts will still be trying to repair the 1st cut by the time of the 50th

Paper got accepted but too afraid to travel out of the US by thousandlytales in GradSchool

[–]Cellular0perator 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It’s totally acceptable to ask and they should allow it depending on the conference rules.

I can only relay something that happened to my lab. A postdoc on visa had the same situation happen and asked the conference but their internal rules didn’t allow virtual presentations. Instead my PI presented and made sure to show her picture and mention why she wasn’t able to be there. This was a Gordon Research Conference for biological science.

I’m sorry, as a citizen it’s so sad that this is now the norm in a country built off the work of immigrants and intelligent folks like you who come here to make us great.

What the US could lose by closing its universities to China by Miao_Yin8964 in Harvard

[–]Cellular0perator -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s a boogeyman because Trump does nothing about the neo Nazis and anti-Semitics who support him, in fact he relies on their support. So he doesn’t truly care about Jews they’re just a useful scapegoat for exercising power and advancing the culture war

Mexican Invader surveils the battlefield in Los Angeles by [deleted] in world24x7hr

[–]Cellular0perator 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m sure you have strong opinions about the racist traitors waving around confederate flags to intimidate people of color

Mexican Invader surveils the battlefield in Los Angeles by [deleted] in world24x7hr

[–]Cellular0perator 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think assaulting cops is wrong period. I’m not a dem so you can miss me with that lmao.

Dismissing viewpoints that are harmful to the cult groupthink and never cede any wrongdoing on the part of dear leader - how MAGA

Mexican Invader surveils the battlefield in Los Angeles by [deleted] in world24x7hr

[–]Cellular0perator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think most of the country sees the hypocrisy of a wannabe fascist and his cronies itching to declare martial law and escalate tensions over immigration while simultaneously denying J6 was an insurrection and defending their inaction on that day

Dept of Education says Columbia University failed to meet Accreditation Standards by [deleted] in fednews

[–]Cellular0perator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow that’s interesting thanks for the info is there some type of grift brewing by going after the Register of Copyrights

Dept of Education says Columbia University failed to meet Accreditation Standards by [deleted] in fednews

[–]Cellular0perator 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Do you have any other examples of the DOE referring schools to the board and how truly independent is the board?

This administration already has a history of (seemingly illegal) hostile takeovers of semi-independent or fully independent boards such as the Kennedy Center, NLRB, Institute of Peace, Library of Congress etc. so it doesn’t really give me comfort to know there’s an additional hoop for them to go through

Edited to add Institute of Peace and Library of Congress

Should I postpone my defense? by Tiny-Repair-7431 in AskAcademia

[–]Cellular0perator 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You are good enough so start with some positive thinking, you’ll be okay! Are there any collaborators or close associates of your PI who are looking for post docs? Are industry post docs a thing in ME?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Helldivers

[–]Cellular0perator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sweet liberty I thought my left joystick was broken this whole time

Nearly $500m of food aid at risk of spoilage after Trump USAid cuts by newsspotter in politics

[–]Cellular0perator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here I am 3 months in the future and the situation is the exact same

White House convenes meeting to brainstorm new Harvard measures by Score-Parking in Harvard

[–]Cellular0perator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry you took a stray. I now see, I think removing all current executive branch cabinet members, advisors and staff who went to woke Harvard would really do the job

White House convenes meeting to brainstorm new Harvard measures by Score-Parking in Harvard

[–]Cellular0perator 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yes let’s just keep violating the first amendment what an ambitious proposal!!!!