bedpan posted:

Do people understand that Donald Trump was defeated in the 2020 election and Joe Biden was inaugurated as 46th President of the United States on Jan 20th 2021? As of today, Joe Biden has been president for 793 days.

stephenthinkpad posted:

Look you just need to send all Chinese born professors in US universities back to China

Cerebral Bore posted:

yea, you could call it an act to exclude chinese or something

stephenthinkpad posted:

Look you just need to send all Chinese born professors in US universities back to China and send all US born Americans in Chinese universities back to the US. It's completely fair.

It's about time for the US to get all her English teachers back.

Some Guy TT posted:

Tankbuster posted:

rahul gandhi being stripped of his MP status is all the funnier when you realise the surname Modi just means petty trader. Fired from his parliamentary job for disrespecting our butifel Petit Bourgeoisie.

Cao Ni Ma posted:

China: The Only Superpower Interested in Peace

webcams for christ posted:

https://twitter.com/ftchina/status/1639335219374485504

mila kunis posted:

every other second there's a bjp mp talking about eradicating all muslims and not being stripped of their seats. really makes you think about the liberal law based order vs how power actually works

Some Guy TT posted:

https://twitter.com/GalloVOA/status/1639252495854870528

indigi posted:

I wonder how that meeting goes

Xi: "cmon man you can't be using nukes. on ukraine? nukes?? cmon think about it. on freakin,, ukraine??? can't do it, you just can't bro. trust me on this one. look you know I got you on the back end but cmon."
Putin: "fuuuuuck, fine"

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I can't be arsed linking but there's a whole thing on the national coroner site I researched ages ago.

Honestly it's pretty simple on some thought; they're large and dangerous animals that humans actually interact with on a daily basis in a variety of settings, especially athletic and recreational ones. And similarly, the second most deadly animal- or rather, involved in the most deaths- is dogs.

webcams for christ posted:

https://twitter.com/ftchina/status/1639335219374485504

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

thank you, mr president

R. Guyovich posted:

i'd keep workshopping this before trying it out in front of an audience

R. Guyovich posted:

i'd keep workshopping this before trying it out in front of an audience

KomradeX posted:

It sucks America will not allow peace in Ukraine even if it means completely depleteting all stocks of its own weapons

indigi posted:

long term it's probably better

KomradeX posted:

Until.someone gives the nazis a nuke

Centrist Committee posted:

but america already has nukes?

GlassEye-Boy posted:

Nobel peace prize for Xi pls.

GlassEye-Boy posted:

You love to see it. Writing is on the wall, Chinese scientists, businesses, and people are going to be targeted more and more and its better to head somewhere where you are appreciated.


lol

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3214610/scientist-exiled-us-brain-research-finds-well-funded-lab-china

quote:

here was a note of urgency in the first email that Wuyuan Lu, a tenured professor at University of Maryland’s Institute of Human Virology (IHV), got from a senior university research administrator.

“We have received an official communication from the National Institutes of Health,” Dennis Paffrath wrote to Lu on 20 December 2018. “It concerns the failure by you and the University to disclose outside research support, relevant affiliations and foreign components” of Lu’s existing NIH grants.

The NIH letter listed Lu’s ties to Xi’an Jiaotong University and Fudan University, including grants NIH said Lu had received from Chinese research agencies. The letter also alleged that his NIH grant had supported work done in China. “I need to know if [this] is true,” Paffrath wrote to Lu. “If not, we will need to work with NIH to help them understand that this is not the case.”

Lu replied the next day, confident that his explanation would clear up what he assumed was a simple misunderstanding. Some of NIH’s allegations, he wrote, appeared to be based on the acknowledgement section of papers with Chinese co-authors in which Lu noted their contributions to the research and the Chinese institutions that had funded them. But those references were a courtesy, Lu explained, and didn’t mean his NIH grants were supporting any of their efforts.
103  jobs lost

42% of 246 targeted scientists were terminated by their institution or resigned.
A. Mastin/Science

In fact, he wrote, the opposite was true: His Chinese collaborations multiplied the payoff from the research that NIH had funded at IHV for more than 2 decades. Lu highlighted the intellectual property his lab generated for the university, telling Paffrath that “none of it would have been possible without” the talented Chinese students working at IHV through these collaborations. IHV had not only approved his interactions with Xi’an Jiaotong University, Lu added, but had touted them in its newsletters.

Lu accepted some blame. “It can be argued that I should have done a better job disclosing these past activities,” he wrote to Paffrath. “But the truth of the matter is that I did not think they presented any conflict of interest.”

Nor was it clear what he could have done differently, Lu continued. “Even if I had thought [those interactions] should be disclosed,” he wrote, “I wouldn’t have known where, how, and what to disclose due to lack of clear guidelines.”

Lu expected his letter to allay NIH’s concerns and allow him to continue research that contributed to the institute’s search for new therapies to treat cancer and infectious diseases. His boss, renowned virologist Robert Gallo, told Science a prominent colleague once called Lu “the most gifted protein chemist in America,” and Gallo says Lu was a valued member of his management team.

But after hearing nothing for 15 months, Lu was told that NIH wanted more information. In his next reply, Lu included lengthy descriptions of each of his research projects with Chinese collaborators and explanations of how they did not conflict or overlap with his NIH funding.

That response was also insufficient, Paffrath told Lu in his next email. NIH wanted still more documents, Paffrath wrote, “and as quickly as possible.” A few weeks later came what Lu interpreted as “a veiled threat” from NIH. “NIH will not continue to be patient in receiving these documents,” Paffrath wrote, “and may pursue other remedies if we do not comply with their request.”
53  banned

21% of 246 targeted scientists were banned from applying for National Institutes of Health grants.
A. Mastin/Science

By then Lu’s patience was also wearing thin. For example, NIH had requested English and Mandarin copies of any contracts that Lu had signed with Chinese institutions. “I can’t generate something that doesn’t exist,” Lu wrote Paffrath regarding an affiliation with Fudan that Lu says was “purely honorary … and with no contractual obligations.”

Lu says he had recurring thoughts of returning to China to care for aging parents. Each time, Gallo told him he could do more to help the world by staying at IHV. But the increasingly bitter exchanges with NIH pushed him over the edge. In August 2020, Lu resigned his tenured position. He is now a professor at Fudan’s medical school in Shanghai.

“NIH was acting like a bully,” he tells Science, “and I decided that I’m not going to waste any more time on this witch hunt.”

...

Li Wang is the only researcher Science spoke with who was able to overturn her termination, thanks to her union’s collective bargaining agreement. But that isn’t to say she emerged unscathed.

Within a week of receiving an email from Lauer on 6 November 2018, University of Connecticut (UConn), Storrs, officials had removed Wang, a tenured professor of physiology and neurobiology, from her NIH grant and denied her access to the mice she used to study liver metabolism.

But senior administrators soon decided NIH’s claims that Wang held a position at Wenzhou Medical University and had received a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China did not hold up. “There is sufficient evidence to show that Dr. Wang is not formally affiliated” with Wenzhou, UConn’s then–vice president for research, Radenka Maric, wrote Lauer on 21 November, and that the grant “was in fact awarded to a different Li Wang.”

Lauer wasn’t willing to accept those results, according to emails obtained by Science from UConn through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. On 28 November, Lauer wrote Maric, now UConn’s president, that there were “at least four publications” that listed “Dr. Wang-UConn as affiliated with Wenzhou” and reminded Maric “to consider those publications as part of your ongoing reviews.” Lauer also told Maric that “NIH thought a reasonable person would consider it more likely than not that Dr. Wang-UConn received financial support for her research” from the Chinese grant.

Lauer suggested UConn officials contact the FBI, and in a subsequent email Maric told Lauer it had given UConn “additional information regarding Chinese talent programs, foreign affiliations, and key search terms.” UConn used FBI techniques to search Wang’s emails, she told Lauer, and obtained “a forensic image of [Wang’s] laptop … that appear to contradict her denials.”

UConn then changed its mind about Wang’s innocence. “We cannot certify Dr. Wang as being honest, trustworthy and forthright,” Maric told Lauer on 19 February 2019.

ne month later, UConn banned Wang, who at one point held five NIH grants, from applying for NIH funding for 3 years, and in July the university decided to fire her. Wang resigned on 19 September 2019, 1 day before her termination went into effect.

Wang had already filed a grievance, which was rejected. But she had another way to fight back: A collective bargaining agreement gives UConn faculty the right to seek outside, binding arbitration in employment disputes.

Wang took advantage of that mechanism, in which an independent arbitrator conducts its own inquiry and issues a ruling that both parties have agreed to accept. The quasi-judicial process, which includes testimony from both sides, was conducted by the American Arbitration Association (AAA), and in November 2021 its arbitrator ruled in Wang’s favor. In a 56-page decision, AAA’s Peter Adomeit ordered UConn to pay Wang $1.4 million in compensation for being suspended and terminated “without just cause.”

Throatwarbler posted:

https://www.science.org/content/article/pall-suspicion-nihs-secretive-china-initiative-destroyed-scores-academic-careers

lmao