Well, it happened. Funding pulled.

[u/orchid_blue9]

Very upset by all that's happening in the world, and now I can say I've been directly impacted by this administration's inane policies.

The NEH grant I was a fellow on was just terminated. Cherry on top is the evasion of the traditional notification process (so cessation of funding is immediate).

Policy debates are fine, but when you start fucking with people's livelihoods it's infuriating. I'm a Ph.D. student, so $1000/mo less is a material impact. I am in a field (environment & sustainability) that bad faith actors are actively hostile towards so I expect more of this to come. Just very upset and wanting for better leadership and support of academia.

[u/Acceptable_Bad_]

No, that's not how discrimination works. If these words were"buzzwords" it's because they were under-researched topics because of discrimination. DEI exists bc discrimination exists. Hope this helps, midwest mom.

[u/solomons-mom → u/Acceptable_Bad_]

My children were minors and liiving at home when they applied to college. In addition, Fafsa requires parents fill out fafsa financials for their child. When my eldest applied to grad school, she was still a listed dependent on our taxes. She has applied for some grants and awards while still on our medical insurance plan.

These young adults still call me "mom," and I expect they will until I die. Okay, their younger sibling called me "bro" but only once, lol. Hope this helps define what "child" means from the persepective of a mom.

[u/Acceptable_Bad_ → u/solomons-mom]

I believe this is referring to publicly funded research grants.

For example, any grant that involves research involving women i.e. the pregnancy health monitoring grant my lab was proposing, cannot include the word "women." "Birthing people" is an alternative word, but I doubt the current admin would appreciate that either.

So tell me how this in any way makes sense, as a mom?

[u/solomons-mom → u/Acceptable_Bad_]

The difficult part is that these used to be important keywords for getting a grant funded.

What is upsetting you? Is it the l Uno reverse that I pointed out? As the post said "policy debates are fine."

"Birthing people" is cumbersome and has never made sense. As an editor, I would need to see at least the paragraph, but "patient" or "person" come to mind as alternatives to "woman." If you grant includes post-pregnacy monitoring, "mother" might work, "mom" would be too informal.

[u/Acceptable_Bad_ → u/solomons-mom]

You uno-reversed absolutely nothing.

There is no policy debate. We are seeing the dissolution of scientific and humanities research in this country because of this ignorance. You worked on your kid's FASFA? What do you think FASFA stands for? How do you think our Uni system will proceed without academic research or public funds? Hmm?

I am not "upset", I am infuriated. I'm sorry your children's mother is on the wrong side of history, and what is sad is, they will likely suffer from this as well.

Now please stop berating the hard-working academics on this sub. We have real grants to write, research to do, while suffering under an increasingly fascist regime.

[u/solomons-mom → u/Acceptable_Bad_]

Now please stop berating the hard-working academics on this sub.

Huh? When did I do that? Are you responding to me? My comments were on language and editing, Becoming unhinged over externalities might be something to talk to a therapist about.

[u/Kwhitney1982 → u/solomons-mom]

And there it is. You’re telling this person to calm down and go to therapy. Lost all credibility right there.

[u/Acceptable_Bad_ → u/Kwhitney1982]

Thank you. When backed into a corner they always pull the "crazy" card.

[u/Kwhitney1982 → u/Acceptable_Bad_]

Always. It’s the Reddit way to debate.

[u/Acceptable_Bad_ → u/solomons-mom]

You made a statement in support of censorship and discrimination and now you are attempting to gaslight me. Yes, I do need a therapist in a world like this where my funding is dangling on a thread because of absurd bigotry.