Reposted by Val Syverson 🕷️
It may take a long time, it may be very frustrating, but achieving multi ethnic democracy, justice, and true egalitarianism is not only possible and worth pursuing, its the only way we are going to survive the coming climate crisis.
![Nature, which previously reported on NSF’s grants shortfall, said it can “be attributed mainly” to the agency keeping more than $1 billion in an account, much of which is for the White House’s Grand Research Challenges project, which is meant to support specific fields, including artificial intelligence. The project was mentioned in one line in a Sept. 10 NSF memo: “In the coming weeks and months, NSF will announce a series of Grand Research Challenges to take thesis-driven bets that stand to unlock new frontiers of S&T [science and technology].”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l6arnocvhn2zrll2gn6xlxn2/bafkreigeeuixy2hyhxsvqcsqz7vvnahfxz6kcjt4fxmw4mqhb46ud2hmzq)
