On: NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

[zhivota → jjtheblunt]

You could be right... I'm just going off of what I've seen in the other departments they touched. Let's hope at least this program would be left untouched.

https://www.nsf.gov/funding/initiatives/reu

There are tons more though, this is only the tip of the iceberg of what the NSF funds of course.

[davrosthedalek → zhivota]

It seems a lot of REUs were not funded this year. One of my students applied to 25 REUs. He says about a third of them evaporated because of funding stops.

[jjtheblunt → zhivota]

agreed, and yeah reorg makes more sense, but we'll see.

[netsharc → jjtheblunt]

How is it possible that you still see the chance that the actions are being done in "good faith"? In my opinion you'd have to construct a lot of "visual barriers" in order to not see the "full picture" of what kind of people the current regime is made of, and what their motivations would be...

You'd have to be looking away, because looking at it would mean admitting you've been wrong.

[jjtheblunt → netsharc]

i didn't say what you said. i just observed there might be a reorg, good faith or not, happening.

that's a hell of a lot of extrapolating and guesswork you use, all wrong, incidentally.

[unethical_ban → jjtheblunt]

If it isn't happening in good faith, then you can't call it a "reorg". That's like shooting something in the head and saying you "reorganized" their brain matter.

[jjtheblunt → unethical_ban]

The article itself says it's a reorg...but isn't clear if it's more.

[magicalist → jjtheblunt]

> The article itself says it's a reorg...but isn't clear if it's more.

It also says they're firing a bunch of subject matter experts and want to slash the budget by 55%. What other "more" are you looking for?

[dontlikeyoueith → jjtheblunt]

It's quite possible tariffs will make us all rich too.

Why post something this useless?