Multiple bright, young scientists I know have told me they will not be applying to jobs in TX & FL.
Faculty friends at institutions in these states have shared they are having trouble recruiting new students & concerned about what they could be accused of.
Having spent years working at UT Austin where I loved our weird & welcoming community, I’m deeply troubled watching things fall apart. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/
Texas A&M put professor on leave for allegedly criticizing Dan Patrick
The professor, an expert on the opioids crisis, was placed on paid administrative leave and investigated, raising questions about the extent of political interference in higher education, particularly in health-related matters.James Barragán (The Texas Tribune)
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Paul Sutton
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •With the upcoming moon missions and need to take on scientists to work on this, could this potentially have an impact on the Moon mission programe, if people won't move to Florida,
Hopefully by 2025 the people of FLorida will have come to their senses and voted DeSantis and his mob back in to hell, where they belong.
Sampath Pāṇini ®
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Maybe the powers-that-be in those states view bright young minds questioning reality as the dangerous and deeply troubling thing they would like to have less of.
If so, this is all going exactly to their designed plan.
chiasm
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young scientists I know have told me they will not be applying to jobs in TX & FL
Can add, students, men, vacationing folks, women and sciencetists of any age
I can understand this, because the REMOVAL of #prochoice in TX and FL effects everyone
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Its the environment that is caustic, caustic for some, is caustic for all
seqastian
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •I'm confused - isn't this a true example of First Amendment protection because it happened at UTMB?
Last fall, I was criticized anonymously by one student for informing a first-year med school class that the TX Democratic candidate for governor would be on campus and they should ask him how he would expand Medicaid with a likely Republican-controlled legislature. Sometimes, students can't handle facts.
NullRegister
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Reading the story, I was aghast how deeply fear has crept into the minds of students and Deans alike in Texas for simply speaking up. The „Land of the Free“? Where just one call denigrating a renowned Professor is enough to shatter a hard earned career to pieces?
If simply listing facts and figures and consequences of political decisions is enough to loose your job, one can come to the conclusion that this is „suppression by fear“. Especially at universities, this is highly alarming.
Eddie Harmon-Jones
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •When reading the full article (worth while), you feel like being caught in a world as described by the author Kafka.
I never believed this could turn real, but obviously it does.
B.t.w. is Kafka already banned in the US?
Asking for a friend.
P.S. if not, it’s definitely a must to do so.