Cynthia C
@cynbio.bsky.social
Reposted by Cynthia C
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
February 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
Reposted by Cynthia C
Erasing the words doesn’t erase the ideas or the people, but it does erase important scientific data with which participants entrusted us so that they could be represented, too. It’s devastating. From @jeremyfaust.bsky.social insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
insidemedicine.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Erasing the words doesn’t erase the ideas or the people, but it does erase important scientific data with which participants entrusted us so that they could be represented, too. It’s devastating. From @jeremyfaust.bsky.social insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Reposted by Cynthia C
“On the most basic scientific level, changing federal-government data means those data become unreliable.” Via @katherinejwu.com
CDC Data Are Disappearing
The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.
www.theatlantic.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“On the most basic scientific level, changing federal-government data means those data become unreliable.” Via @katherinejwu.com