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Huge loss for students and researchers.

The benefits for students to be paid to do research is obvious.

At many institutions that are not research intensive, this is a not just an undergrad experience, it’s a critical chance for professors to do research.

(I ran an REU program for 3 years.)
🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025.

www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...
Cancellation megathread
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February 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“You can purge a website of the words climate change, but that doesn’t mean climate change goes away,” Mr. Lehner said.

Farmers Sue Over Deletion of Climate Data From Government Websites www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/c...
Farmers Sue Over Deletion of Climate Data From Government Websites
The data, which disappeared from Agriculture Department sites in recent weeks, was useful to farmers for business planning, the lawsuit said.
www.nytimes.com
February 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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4 of 4/ ... If humanity is to survive, we must learn to end this disparity and openly value and celebrate moral-ethical courage at least as much as we do physical courage.

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December 6, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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3 of 4/ ... Unfortunately, groups that place great value on physical courage will very often ostracize and even severely punish acts of moral/ethical courage. ...
December 6, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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2 of 4/ ...the more a society celebrates and values physical courage, the less they tend to celebrate and value moral-ethical courage. ...
December 6, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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1 of 4/ Acts of Moral-Ethical Courage are needed far more in the world than acts of Physical Courage. Certainly both are absolutely needed, and often there's overlap in these two emotions/acts/behaviors, however, ...
December 6, 2024 at 12:53 PM