“Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone,” Dr. #Kornbluth wrote. #MIT

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/us/mit-rejects-white-house-compact.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU8.2Pag.Fe-OWMpmn9Pm&smid=url-share

Brava #MIT President Sally #Kornbluth: "the premise of the document [#MAGA compact/blackmail] is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact

#uspol
#Science
#research
#Antifascism

#Christmas, #Santa, #Harvard, #ClaudineGay, #LizMagill, #Magill, #Penn, #UPenn, #Kornbluth, #MIT, #FreeSpeech, #EditorialCartoon, #PoliticalCartoon, @Rattoons1776

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/12/campus-christmas?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=82815

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This #SciFiSaturday, I have found a combination of entertainment and education that is dear to my heart: #ClimateCrisis and #SciFi.

@Loukas has two classics of a genre with the following theme:

"So much #ScienceFiction has dealt with #EcologicalBreakdown, since the 1950s and earlier. I think reading it has given me a much better mental toolbox to react to current #ClimateChange events.

#Pohl and #Kornbluth
"The Space Merchants" (1952). Consumerism has stripped the planet bare..."

Robert Bernard Reich (born June 24, 1946) is an American #professor, #author, #lawyer, and #PoliticalCommentator. He worked in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and served as Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 in the cabinet of President Bill Clinton. He was also a member of President Obama's economic transition advisory board. In 2015, Reich and #Kornbluth founded #InequalityMedia, a #nonprofit #digital #media company.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Reich

#RobertReich