“There are a lot of days where I feel very much like just quitting all of this.”

  • @NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    1927 days ago

    That’s a very big concern. It’s hard to want to do scientific work when there’s an administration hostile to everything you do, including saying g that it’s made up.

      • Yeah, anti-intellectualism is really frustrating. All part of the plan being exploited by the fuckwits who want to see the country turn into an authoritarian police state.

    • @Fortunafors@lemmy.world
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      127 days ago

      I dunno how is research going on the US those days but here in my country, academy and science been full of shit since a long time ago, bureaucracy and money is all that matters now and seems like nobody will change that

      • @phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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        26 days ago

        There’s certainly some of that that the research community has been trying to fight back on with variable success. We’re better than most countries but worse than a few, with space for improvement.

        Active hostility towards science is very different from making improvements in the areas of concern.

  • Ekybio
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    1227 days ago

    Fascists are anti-empiricists by design, because their ideology is opposed to the truth about our world. None of their claims hold up to actual scrutiny, so they have to create “alternative facts” in order to trick others into thinking like them.

  • HubertManne
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    826 days ago

    could you imagine the brain drain if other countries started actively recruiting anyone with a hard science or math PhD in the next few years.

    • @espentan@lemmy.world
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      726 days ago

      A friend of mine works at a research lab here in Oslo, Norway, and says the number of US applicants have already skyrocketed.

    • @SanctimoniousApe
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      426 days ago

      Yeah, no - you obviously have no idea how little most of them make. Further, many of them just want to do the research they’re interested in, and don’t spend much time concerning themselves about the politics because politics is inherently irrational while science is all about being rational.