I don't think there was a golden age in which schools in England were perfect, but I do think we need to reflect on the national priorities for schools in England, which have helped to create a 'climate of fear' in some schools: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/dec/09/london-academy-staff-instilled-climate-of-fear-among-pupils #ukeducation #Schools #climateOfFear
#ClimateOfFear
ICE’s own records say nearly half of the people it has detained have no criminal record.
Reminder: Immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than the general population.
Other reminder: This is not about public safety.
#immigration #publicsafety #climateoffear
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-record-59000-immigrant-detainees-half-no-criminal-record/
"McNutt faces challenges that go beyond finances, including complaints that NASEM leaders are timid at a time that calls for outspokenness in defense of science."
And then it gets much worse (actually worse starts sooner and this is just the middle).
Moving beyond "show us your papers" we"ve arrived at "tell us your beliefs."
Where can one obtain a passport-sized US constitution?
Come to think of it, why doesn't a US passport -begin- with the articles, as remedial education for the so-called patriots wearing a badge?
The Reith Lectures - Wole Soyinka - Climate of Fear - The Changing Mask of Fear - BBC
#wolesoyinka #reithlectures #climateoffear #academia #history #BBC #Art
Update.
“I think that there is a wrong perception that foreign scientists are somehow privileged to be in the United States. I feel it’s the opposite,” [lab PI] Peshkin said. “Foreign scientists come here with gifts ... they are highly skilled experts who are in demand. They enrich the American scientific community.”
Remember that without the AP we would not know. Find the donate button, use it. After that, get out on the streets and complain loudly.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-russia-frog-embryo-harvard-eb1bb69cf1d824dd1ab7c0c23a64de4b
"...the White House needs to crush and/or humiliate a handful of universities … but only one at a time. In each case it has to be one victim alone, with everyone else cowering in the shadows. Once the point has been made, with a few institutional corpses, no one else will get out of line. That’s the idea. If all the colleges and universities band together, the whole thing falls apart."
#SerengetiStrategy
#ClimateOfFear
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/does-trump-want-out-of-the-harvard-fight
"...the directive to NIH to not say what’s frozen may help explain why many Harvard scientists remain unsure of the status of their grants. Still, Harvard has told researchers to pause hiring and limit spending."
"Climate groups are in the crosshairs, as is CREW, the corruption in government group. As in the earlier scuttlebutt, Earth Day is purported to be the day when the axe may fall."
That would exactly figure. Nasty, so yeah.
Getting back to the point of scicomm.xyz:
"“Even without ICE’s horrible abuses, a pattern of arbitrarily revoking student visas makes the U.S. no longer a viable schooling option for international students,” said one UW professor, Carl Bergstrom, who teaches biology."
The most calorific fuel of scientific advancement is grad students.
Ars Technica only rarely resorts to op-eds. When it does, tends to be powerful.
"This is not a breeze; this is the whirlwind. And it will leave a state-dependent, nationalist university system in its wake unless academia arises, feels its own power, and non-violently resists."
As is remarked therein, failure to organize will likely be fatal. As with labor vs. management, organization wins to the extent it's not countered with other organization.
"The cost of opting out can be especially high for early-career researchers. “I am at a point in my career where building new collaborative relationships is critical,” says one Canadian biologist...She may decide not to go, and has asked the organizers to arrange remote attendance, but she says they haven’t been receptive. “This makes for a very difficult decision,” she says.
US orgs: it's a new plague, escaped from the White House lab. Deal with it.
https://www.science.org/content/article/international-scientists-rethink-us-conference-attendance
This makes $240M pro bono work shaken out in what can only be described as a synthesis of Mafia tactics and US federal coercion.
About a quarter billion dollars of "nice law firm you got there; too bad if it couldn't practice "
The pro bono work will [if in competent hands] be sold on to the highest bidder, akin to a shipping container of power tools boosted from a truck.
Oy vey!!! WHAT the bloody fuck!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqgYZVpQtbI
Notorious #Transvestigator Candance owen Now Being Transvestigated by Fellow #Transphobes
#TransvestigationIsBULLYING
#TransvestigationIsHATE
#TransvetsigationHurtsEveryone
#ClimateOfFear
Here's the funny bit. Transvestigated #transphobes: Nancy Mace, Candace Owens 🤣 🤣
What's not funny, is the campaign to eliminate #transpeople :heart_trans: and #nonbinary :heart_nb: people from public life.
#TransAndNonbinaryRightsareHumanRights :heart_trans: :heart_nb:
@TBeaufils There is even more to add: His #Tesla #gigafactory here in #Germany has already violated environmental legislation and he has difficulties to find workers because working conditions are terrible including the professional use of "Security Intelligence Investigators" to discourage workers from reuniting and criticising and create a #climateoffear.
https://www.rbb24.de/studiofrankfurt/wirtschaft/tesla/2023/03/tesla-sechs-verstoss-bau-umwelt.html
The same problems created everywhere: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/18/tesla-workers-factory-conditions-elon-musk
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