February, 2025

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In war against DEI in science, researchers see collateral damage

Ars Technica

And yet, he noted on Bluesky , LinkedIn , and X , his project was among nearly 3,500 National Science Foundation grants recently described by the likes of Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican and chair of the powerful Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, as woke DEI research.

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Confused Senator Rages That Self-Driving Cars Are Woke

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According to a database he released this week, as NPR reports , just over $2 billion of the National Science Foundation's $9 billion budget went to "left-wing ideological crusades masked as 'academic research.'" It's ludicrous," University of Maryland biologist Joshua Weitz, who has previously received NSF grants, told NPR.

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