The Pentagon has buried names of all prominent military and public figures at Arlington National Cemetary who are black, Hispanic, or female, so as not to be seen as doing '#DEI' work by listing them. It's just white men now. That's #MAGA in a nutshell.
Update. "Foreign interference laws ‘no protection from #Trump edicts’"
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/foreign-interference-laws-no-protection-trump-edicts
(#paywalled)
"A memo sent to Australian collaborators in US-funded research projects seeks assurances that they and their institutions have no involvement in diversity, equity and inclusion (#DEI) initiatives, “environmental justice”, “gender ideology extremism” or “any party that espouses anti-American beliefs”. It asks whether they have received any funding from China, including Confucius Institutes and “non-state actors”, along with Russia, Cuba or Iran. The 36 questions also include queries on how the projects “create measurable benefits” for the US."
Update. "Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power"
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00791-z
"More scholars must push back. The idea that scientists can keep doing what they know must be done to incorporate #DEI into their work while adjusting terms to fit the demands of bigoted autocrats bent on hobbling science is to whistle loudly past a graveyard of avoidable error, continued financial cuts and censorship. That diversity matters to science is a truth — albeit one that has only recently begun to be accepted and applied…Genomics has established that different groups of people respond differently to drugs and vaccines. The individuals recruited to and participating in clinical trials must be representative of those who will use those treatments in real life…Social scientists are well aware that understanding behaviour and implementing desired change requires studying populations besides white, Western, university psychology students."
Codeberg.org is under attack by right wing trolls over diversity, equity and inclusion. This is what you get when you enable the goons. They will spoil public resources.
This is a good illustration of Popper's paradox on why one should not tolerate intolerance.
https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html
Thanks to Sharmila Kuthunur for her @spacedotcom story today on the new U.S. federal administration's efforts to erase the contributions of people like Vera #Rubin from the #history of #astronomy.
actual tweet from the #Trump administration's latest #DEI hire (he's joining the State Department)
Holy shit. A friend of mine who works at NASA just got this email today.
Context:
https://www.chcoc.gov/content/initial-guidance-regarding-deia-executive-orders
