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(((Cindy Weinstein)))

"To be neutral is to have a political position." -- Raoul Peck

https://www.salon.com/2025/11/08/at-yale-university-things-are-getting-orwellian/

#USPol
#Yale
#Orwell

(((Cindy Weinstein)))

@CindyWeinstein@zirk.us · 2 weeks ago

"To be neutral is to have a political position." -- Raoul Peck

https://www.salon.com/2025/11/08/at-yale-university-things-are-getting-orwellian/

#USPol
#Yale
#Orwell

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 6 months ago

WTF?!

"The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development estimates that under current policies, the global use of plastics could triple by 2060."

#HannahOsborne, 2024

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/the-165-year-reign-of-oil-is-coming-to-an-end-but-will-we-ever-be-able-to-live-without-it

#plastic #OECD

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 6 months ago

"I couldn't even imagine health care without plastics, and I don't even think we should go there. I would argue that plastic has allowed very important innovation of medical devices and supplies, and is here to stay."

#DrJodiSherman, Founding Director, Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/the-165-year-reign-of-oil-is-coming-to-an-end-but-will-we-ever-be-able-to-live-without-it

Head in the sand, much? How will you get plastic, without the fossil fuel industry spitting it out as byproduct?

#healthcare #plastic #Yale #sustainability

petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org · 7 months ago

Update. "Faculty Letter to #Yale University Administration"
https://sites.google.com/view/yalefacultyletter2025/home

"We stand together at a crossroads. American universities are facing extraordinary attacks that threaten the bedrock principles of a democratic society, including rights of free expression, association, and academic freedom. We write as one faculty, to ask you to stand with us now. We urge you to: …Resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and university self-governance…Protect science and other research at Yale from funding cutoffs… Defend the rights to free speech on campus…Work purposefully and proactively with other colleges and universities in collective defense."

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #DefendResearch #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

Yale Faculty Letter

April 2025 Dear President McInnis, Provost Strobel, and Members of the Yale Board of Trustees: We stand together at a crossroads. American universities are facing extraordinary attacks that threaten the bedrock principles of a democratic society, including rights of free expression, association,

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 7 months ago

#BrainDrain

#Trump's admin says billions of dollars in cuts are needed to curb the federal deficit & bring the US debt under control.

His cutbacks on #research come amid a broader clash that has seen Trump criticize #universities as *discriminatory* for their #diversity policies & denounce what he sees as a failure by some institutions to protect Jewish students from #antisemitism.

#law #academia #AntiIntellectualism #science #research #censorship #MafiaState #Nazis
https://www.reuters.com/world/scientists-us-harried-by-trump-cuts-turn-towards-europe-2025-04-11/

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 7 months ago

The threat to #academics' livelihoods at universities including #Yale, #Columbia & #JohnsHopkins has given #Europe's political leaders hope they could reap an #intellectual windfall.

A letter, reviewed by Reuters, signed in March by 13 European countries including #France, #Germany & #Spain, urged the #EU Commission to move fast to attract #academic talent.

#Trump #BrainDrain #law #academia #AntiIntellectualism #science #research #censorship #MafiaState #Nazis