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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

it’s good for social stability when, while the overall economy is doing OK, a huge number of educated professionals and students who held or wanted jobs they were passionate about have suddenly been pushed into unemployment and precarity by a government that’s openly hostile to them, right

Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

it is my understanding from history that specifically persecuting educated professionals and making it much harder for college graduates to find jobs that will allow them to become professionals is a perfectly safe thing to do that never ends unpredictably

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mari🦋🌺
@soledadx.bsky.social

they terrorizing people who have a better chance at aiming right while they are also terrorizing our soliders and treating them like shit, the people who will never miss at aiming lol

Scott Cory
@jscottcory.bsky.social

I'm sure the molecular genetics Ph.D candidate whose work on understanding the genetic differentiators of viral virulence was abruptly ended and career disrupted won't be radicalized into experimenting with CRISPR enhancements of endemic viruses.

Pyrolitic
@killedbyapencil.bsky.social

It triggers me when MAGA destroyed the infrastructure that created a place for “the elites” (here the definition has very little to do with money), and then they yammer on about the “overproduction of elites”

Steve Worcester
@stevewfolds.bsky.social

Just saw this morning that NSF grants will be cut 50% post November elections. Know 3 PhD neighbors, each with kids: Chemist, Hydrologist, Geneticist. All 3 work at the University of Utah.

Krista Koeller
@kristalerista.bsky.social

I don’t think anyone is ready for the storm of neurodivergent rage that is brewing. We have a whole class of people we’ve trained to analyze systems and use that knowledge to make things happen, and you’re going to take away their pipettes and mass specs? They’re 100% intrinsically motivated.

thomaslthomson3.bsky.social
@thomaslthomson3.bsky.social

It's bad enough that we could probably create multiple CIA-sized (but frankly probably smarter) intelligence agencies in this country out of the dispossessed academics and scientists and Ph.D. students who are spoiling for the fight of their lives with MAGA.

Krista Koeller
@kristalerista.bsky.social

Not that all academics are neurodivergent or neurotypical people wouldn’t be activists There’s just a lot of generally placid, autistic and adhd folks in academia who are used to getting things done, who are entirely motivated by things the Trump administration doesn’t understand or take seriously

Canary
@vaelis.bsky.social

Yeah…. I am ok right now because I’m spending my retirement which means I’m very much not going to be ok in the long term which implies there has to be some kind of fix between now and then which also doesn’t seem like it’s coming and oh boy