Technical First Light! The Inouye Solar Telescope’s Visible Tunable Filtergraph (VTF) looks at the #Sun for the first time. VTF was developed and built at the Institute for Solar Physics (KIS) in Freiburg. #MPSGoettingen is a partner of the project. Read more here: https://www.mps.mpg.de/the-heart-of-world-s-largest-solar-telescope-begins-to-beat

image credit: VTF/KIS/NSF/NSO/AURA

#KIS #NSO #NSF #NationalSolarObservatory #NationalScienceFoundation

#McMurdoStation webcam:
https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/mcmwebcam.cfm

#Antarctica
#UnitedStatesAntarcticProgram #USAP
#NationalScienceFoundation #NSF

Today's cool #Herc picture

#C130 #ColoradoSprings #NationalScienceFoundation #NSF

'An NSF official apologized to the fired workers, noting that they were “following orders” from the Trump administration.'

Wow. We're already LITERALLY at the "I was just following orders" stage of all of this.

If all of this were to literally stop -- at this exact moment -- American science would still be set back by years.

#science #nsf #nationalsciencefoundation #trump #uspol #politics #elonmusk #musk #doge #justfollowingorders

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/inside-national-science-foundation-firings-00204763

Every federal agency in the U.S. is currently trying to figure out how to purge forbidden words from documents posted online, in a desperate attempt to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to purge “DEI” from every facet of American life. And nowhere is that effort more bizarre than the National Science Foundation, which is currently combing through websites and research papers for a long list of words that include #female, #disability, and #LGBT, among a host of others.

The review comes in response to a memo sent out Jan. 29 from the Office of Personnel Management, written by acting director Charles Ezell. Every agency has interpreted the memo a little differently, but at NSF they’ve compiled a list of words that need to be found, which will initiate a review to see if it’s allowed.

According to the Washington Post, a word like #women appearing will get the content flagged, but it will need to be manually reviewed to determine if the context of the word is related to a forbidden topic under the anti-DEI order. Trump and his fellow fascists use terms like DEI to describe anything they don’t like, which means that the word #women is on the forbidden list while #men doesn’t initiate a review.

Straight white men are seen through the #MAGA worldview as the default human and thus wouldn’t be suspicious and in need of a review. Any other type of identity is inherently suspect.

Some of the terms that are getting flagged are particularly eyebrow-raising in light of the Nazi salutes that Trump supporters have been giving since he took office. For example, the term #hateSpeech will get a paper at NSF flagged for further review. Redefining terms like #hateSpeech is obviously part of the fascist project.

Darby Saxbe, a professor at the University of Southern California, tweeted the list of banned words on Monday, including a decision tree she says had been sent to all program officers at NSF.

Forbidden keywords that initiate a review at NSF, according to Saxbe:

#activism
#activists
#advocacy
#advocate
#advocates
#barrier
#barriers
#biased
#biasedToward
#biases
#biasesTowards
#BIPOC
#BlackAndLatinx
#CommunityDiversity
#CommunityEquity
#CulturalDifferences
#CulturalHeritage
#CulturallyResponsive
#Disabilities
#Disability
#Discriminated
#Discrimination
#Discriminatory
#DiverseBackgrounds
#DiverseCommunities
#DiverseCommunity
#DiverseGroup
#DiverseGroups
#Diversified
#Diversify
#Diversifying
#DiversityAndInclusion
#DiversityEquity
#EnhanceTheDiversity
#EnhancingDiversity
#EqualOpportunity
#Equality
#Equitable
#Equity
#Ethnicity
#Excluded
#Female
#Females
#FosteringInclusivity
#Gender
#GenderDiversity
#Genders
#HateSpeech
#HispanicMinority
#Historically
#ImplicitBias
#ImplicitBiases
#Inclusion
#Inclusive
#Inclusiveness
#Inclusivity
#IncreaseDiversity
#IncreaseTheDiversity
#IndigenousCommunity
#Inequalities
#Inequality
#Inequitable
#Inequities
#Institutional
#LGBT
#Marginalize
#Marginalized
#Minorities
#Minority
#Multicultural
#Polarization
#Political
#Prejudice
#Privileges
#PromotingDiversity
#RaceAndEthnicity
#Racial
#RacialDiversity
#RacialInequality
#RacialJustice
#Racially
#Racism
#SenseOfBelonging
#SexualPreferences
#SocialJustice
#Sociocultural
#Socioeconomic
#Status
#Stereotypes
#Systemic
#Trauma
#UnderAppreciated
#UnderRepresented
#UnderServed
#Underrepresentation
#Underrepresented
#Underserved
#Undervalued
#Victim
#Women
#WomenAndUnderrepresented

#Trump #ForbiddenWords #DEI #ExecutiveOrder #NationalScienceFoundation #NSF #Women #LGBT #Disability #MAGA #HateSpeech #Fascism #Censorship #PoliticalAgenda #WokeCulture #SocialJustice #IdentityPolitics #USPolitics #GenderEquality #CivilRights #PoliticalControl

gizmodo.com/the-list-of-trumps…

#exposed #aEvl

#Eilnachricht #TrumpCoup
#USpol #DefundScience

Wie erwartet, läuft die wissenschaftsfeindliche MAGA-Kampagne auf Hochtouren.

#Politico:

"Ein groß angelegter #Personalabbau als Reaktion auf die Anordnungen des Präsidenten ist bereits im Gange..."

"Einer der 👉führenden Geldgeber für Wissenschaft & angewandte Forschung in den #USA plant, zwischen 25-50% der Mitarbeiter in den nächsten 2 Monaten zu entlassen👈, sagte eine hochrangige #NationalScienceFoundation-Beamtin.."

https://www.eenews.net/articles/science-funding-agency-threatened-with-mass-layoffs/