This is the (or a) list of words that the U.S. federal government has stopped agencies from using including in grant proposals and higher ed funding in general.
The silver lining: Look up, friends. We still have academic freedom, right? đ¤
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- activism
- activists
- advocacy
- advocate
- advocates
- affirming care
- all-inclusive
- allyship
- anti-racism
- antiracist
- assigned at birth
- assigned female at birth
- assigned male at birth
- at risk
- barrier
- barriers
- belong
- bias
- biased
- biased toward
- biases
- biases towards
- biologically female
- biologically male
- BIPOC
- Black
- breastfeed + people
- breastfeed + person
- chestfeed + people
- chestfeed + person
- clean energy
- climate crisis
- climate science
- commercial sex worker
- community diversity
- community equity
- confirmation bias
- cultural competence
- cultural differences
- cultural heritage
- cultural sensitivity
- culturally appropriate
- culturally responsive
- DEI
- DEIA
- DEIAB
- DEIJ
- disabilities
- disability
- discriminated
- discrimination
- discriminatory
- disparity
- diverse
- diverse backgrounds
- diverse communities
- diverse community
- diverse group
- diverse groups
- diversified
- diversify
- diversifying
- diversity
- enhance the diversity
- enhancing diversity
- environmental quality
- equal opportunity
- equality
- equitable
- equitableness
- equity
- ethnicity
- excluded
- exclusion
- expression
- female
- females
- feminism
- fostering inclusivity
- GBV
- gender
- gender based
- gender based violence
- gender diversity
- gender identity
- gender ideology
- gender-affirming care
- genders
- Gulf of Mexico
- hate speech
- health disparity
- health equity
- hispanic minority
- historically
- identity
- immigrants
- implicit bias
- implicit biases
- inclusion
- inclusive
- inclusive leadership
- inclusiveness
- inclusivity
- increase diversity
- increase the diversity
- indigenous community
- inequalities
- inequality
- inequitable
- inequities
- inequity
- injustice
- institutional
- intersectional
- intersectionality
- key groups
- key people
- key populations
- Latinx
- LGBT
- LGBTQ
- marginalize
- marginalized
- men who have sex with men
- mental health
- minorities
- minority
- most risk
- MSM
- multicultural
- Mx
- Native American
- non-binary
- nonbinary
- oppression
- oppressive
- orientation
- people + uterus
- people-centered care
- person-centered
- person-centered care
- polarization
- political
- pollution
- pregnant people
- pregnant person
- pregnant persons
- prejudice
- privilege
- privileges
- promote diversity
- promoting diversity
- pronoun
- pronouns
- prostitute
- race
- race and ethnicity
- racial
- racial diversity
- racial identity
- racial inequality
- racial justice
- racially
- racism
- segregation
- sense of belonging
- sex
- sexual preferences
- sexuality
- social justice
- sociocultural
- socioeconomic
- status
- stereotype
- stereotypes
- systemic
- systemically
- they/them
- trans
- transgender
- transsexual
- trauma
- traumatic
- tribal
- unconscious bias
- underappreciated
- underprivileged
- underrepresentation
- underrepresented
- underserved
- undervalued
- victim
- victims
- vulnerable populations
- women
- women and underrepresented
Comments
I work in applied mathematics and have used some of those words…
Are there any grants that do not use âbiasâ or âbelongâ anywhere?
I am not saying I don’t believe this is true, but can you post a source? Would like to look directly at the info.
What in the actual fuck. I do research on a underserved patient population that experiences disability and is primarily of the female sex.
I study barrier islandsâŚ
he really is a hateful piece of shit.
a number of those words are problematic for human subjects research. For example, "vulnerable populations" is a term that is used to describe 45 CFR 46, for research studies in children, pregnant women, and prisoners. It also relates to doing studies on people that are unable to consent lots of reasons (e.g. intelligence, incapacitated, etc).
For christsake, there’s a whole institute for "mental health" (NIMH).
These fools are not even aware of what the government does.
So, we can’t say "women" anymore? Is that word discriminatory?
Smh emergency medicine is just too woke with all its "trauma" đđđ oh are you gonna get your "traumatic" injuries treated like a fuckin snowflake??? die like a man đđđ
Bias in machine learning and statistics models? Not anymore. Developing models to handle diverse datasets? Not in our United States. Confirmation bias? Not a concern for us.Â
Studying pollution to promote clean air and a healthy population? Fake news. Polarization of light? Doesnât exist anymore.Â
Analyzing barriers to solving a problem? Not allowed. Something has a status? Nah. Orientation in space? Nonsense.Â
We really do live in the stupidest timeline.Â
There goes my plans to research Jamaican All-Inclusives through a grant funded research trip đŤ
Some of these words seem like they could be difficult to avoid just generally. Minority and observation counts, trans and anything related to crossing things (i.e., trans-Atlantic shipments), historically and ….just generally writing about past literature. There’s someone at my university who does grant funded research on obstetrics complications. It will take some very creative writing to avoid the word women.
I canât use the word female. But I need to report of many male and female are in the sample group.
Just so Iâm understanding correctly, academics applying for grants canât use any of these words? Iâm currently working on an NSF proposal that uses a few
Also be careful when hyphenating some of these words. A blogger published on an analysis of the Ted Cruz database of "woke" grants, and found that the algorithm they used appeared to be… CTRL-F.
So, its possible that sentences containing statements such as trans-disciplinary may cause rejection. For example, the "cis" in the title "Cis-Regulatory Basis of Developmental Plasticity…" may have caused the paper to be flagged.
Perhaps consider inserting invisible unicode characters or identical letters from other alphabets to avoid detection.
"Social Science" is no bueno either. I’m an economist and not sure how you otherwise talk about financial "equity." Too.
Even climate science banned? What an awful time for science
Whatever happened to freedom of speech lol. If someone can explain how this is legal, that would be greatly appreciated.
"Bias" is used in just about every branch of science…
âMen who have sex with menâ haha wtf that is so specific
YOU CANNOT GET FUNDED FOR STUDYING MENTAL HEALTH
I’m a sociologist in mental health crisis services research, so everything I do is apparently a waste of money — during a massive mental health epidemic.
Virtually my entire discipline is being defunded. Unsurprisingly, we’re the ones that draw attention to the exact social ills that this administration is actively promoting.
"the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought. In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it….Weâre destroying wordsâscores of them, hundreds of them, every day. Weâre cutting the language down to the bone"
From "1984"
Love that âfemaleâ and âwomenâ are listed but not âmaleâ or âmenâ. đ
I work in CS… guess we can’t reference memory barriers anymore.
Can you post a legit source that clearly states this? I am dealing with idiots who focus on Fox News and not reality
GULF OF MEXICO lmao
So i can decolonize the past but not do cultural heritage studies đ¤ˇââď¸đ¤Ş
RIP the Pauli Exclusion principle.
Where is this list coming from?
Women. Jesus.Â
They’re about three words short of wiping out any research or policy at all.
we were asked by the forest service to take âdisadvantaged communitiesâ out as well
Expression? How else do you say gene expression. WTF
source?
Are they for real?
I did a post a while back about all the science papers that are just impossible to reference now. what I’m thinking of is what about the next list. Suppose we get a grant that adheres to these principles we restrictive as it is and the administration says I want to ban 100 more words. Who’s to stop them and what words can’t they include?
Banning âNative Americanâ from federal language? WTF, America.
OP says:
>This is the (or a) list of words that the federal government has stopped agencies from using including in grant proposals
Headline says:
>These 197 Terms May Trigger Reviews Of Your NIH, NSF Grant Proposals
Actual article text says
>Your proposal may now get flagged for additional scrutiny. Itâs not clear what exactly might happen
And their source is another article, so if we go to the actual original reporting from NYT
>The above terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents viewed by The New York Times. Some ordered the removal of these words from public-facing websites, or ordered the elimination of other materials (including school curricula) in which they might be included.
>In other cases, federal agency managers advised caution in the termsâ usage without instituting an outright ban. Additionally, the presence of some terms was used to automatically flag for review some grant proposals and contracts that could conflict with Mr. Trumpâs executive orders.
>All presidential administrations change the language used in official communications to reflect their own policies. It is within their prerogative, as are amendments to or the removal of web pages, which The Times has found has already happened thousands of times in this administration.
>Still, the words and phrases listed here represent a marked â and remarkable â shift in the corpus of language being used both in the federal governmentâs corridors of power and among its rank and file. They are an unmistakable reflection of this administrationâs priorities.
Amazing how many layers of sensationalism you have to pull back to get to the actual legitimate information. And even then this is still a big compiled list which involves every department and every memo the NYT could get their hands on. What you’d actually want is a list used by the NIH or NSF in the context of grant reviews.
Headline in this post is false. And where is the original source? This post links to a Forbes article. The article states that use of these terms "may trigger a review," NOT that they are banned or that agencies have been stopped from using them.
A lot of this is common sense. Outside of woke academia, no one uses terms like "people with a penis" for men. The pendulum has swung the other way now, folks.
can you tag this as a US centric post please?
âGulf of Mexicoâ
Fucking clowns.
I thought he was supposed to represent free speech.. This isnt gonna end well for trump
While I hate that any of these words are on this list I’m happy to see that ‘addict’, ‘harm reduction’ and ‘drugs’ are not listed. We’ve had enough stigma as it is.
Have they actually stopped them from being used? According to the article you linked, "Your proposal may now get flagged for additional scrutiny. Itâs not clear what exactly might happen, whether your NSF, NIH or whatever proposal will get rejected, your funding will be yanked or your work will be censored as a result."
I think it’s an important distinction.
Native American being on the list just made me cackle…WTF
"Systematic" and all derivatives. Great so…. all science then. Got it.
No more risk of bias for us, systematic review folks!
Stupidity or evil? We need a word that means both these days.
No more trans- double bonds. At least we have the E- and Z- designations to fall back on. đ
I’m a bit confused, MAGA spent like 5 years railing on about being against forced speech. But I guess this is forced un-speech, so we’re all good, no?
*the identity matrix has entered the chat*
Cell diversity? Nope
Transformers in machine learning? Nope
"Privilege" comes up a lot in a high security environment. What a stupid list. Oppressive and evil. Also stupid.
tribal? cultural diversity? socioeconomic? These are value-free descriptions of important phenomena that exist in the world. I’m especially outraged about "tribal" since there are more than 500 federally recognized tribes in the U.S. There are no synonyms
I’m sorry, this is a joke.
The word "bias" is banned?? I stopped reading after that, honestly. No more statistics in any field I guess.