The list of words that could get scientists’ grants pulled in the US

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With thanks to Darby Saxbe, Professor of Psychology at University of Southern California: neuroendocrinology of close relationships, particularly plasticity across the transition to parenthood. Writing the book ‘Dad Brain’ for Flatiron Books, about the neurobiology of fatherhood.

Darby got this information from a program officer at the National Science Foundation ((NSF): a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. She shared these screenshots of the keywords along with a decision tree and asks that readers please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom and science.

This is fascism in plain sight.

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