The new Lysenkoism has found another target. We’re interested in your contributions to high-energy particle physics, professor, but how can we fund your work in the absence of an analytical framework that foregrounds intersectionality and allyship? Background first:
The 'broader impact' nonsense was added to NSF proposal requirements before Biden. Not sure when exactly, but even years ago adding DIE goals into one's grant proposal increased the chance of getting funded.
In practice this means that a certain portion of the (already scarce) resources directed towards scientific research is being appropriated by DIE. You've got one guess as to how that portion will change in the years ahead.
As it happens (shameless plug), I gave a brief insider look at some of the nonsense that now happens on grant review panels here:
Check out their new directorate, TIP. Dont just read the press releases, which are carefully worded and copyedited, read through the entire solicitation:
Pretty sure NSF sponsored this idiotic study, in case anyone missed it: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.18.010119
The 'broader impact' nonsense was added to NSF proposal requirements before Biden. Not sure when exactly, but even years ago adding DIE goals into one's grant proposal increased the chance of getting funded.
In practice this means that a certain portion of the (already scarce) resources directed towards scientific research is being appropriated by DIE. You've got one guess as to how that portion will change in the years ahead.
As it happens (shameless plug), I gave a brief insider look at some of the nonsense that now happens on grant review panels here:
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-dieing-academy
Check out their new directorate, TIP. Dont just read the press releases, which are carefully worded and copyedited, read through the entire solicitation:
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22583/nsf22583.pdf
“Principal”, not “Principle”.
Don't worry. The Federal government of the USA is funding its own foreign invasion so these problems will seem like distant memories soon enough:
https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/debit-cards-for-illegals-how-you?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2OTg4NDk5OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTI2Nzc1MzksIl8iOiJpOXpmZSIsImlhdCI6MTY1MDYzODQxNiwiZXhwIjoxNjUwNjQyMDE2LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNzQ2NTgwIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.vAUeujoh7fL0RoKI1QpUy1YBNwwLWOKRqG0Kcz-qnDA&s=r
Yep, insuring the products of science become dumber and dumber. Thanks government bureaucracies.
"No stone left unturned."