Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences
Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences
If you want to look at this as an optimist: scrapping all support for social sciences across an entire country is a great social science experiment. Now we get to learn how important social sciences are!
It's so incredibly short sighted, I do not know how to react.
Bleakly optimistic at best, yeah? 😬
- survive covid like fucking champs
- fire Jacinda
- do stupid cruel shit <--- you are here, aka the "fuck around" stage
Well, kids, that's where the betting pool opens.
I don't catch all the news all the time, just learning they got rid of Jacinda. Why? Why in the actual fuck would you get rid of her?
I had actually been planning a proposal for this fund for next year (social science). I'd sat through seminars on how to write a good proposal, and no one mentioned funding getting cut was even a possibility. The universities were completely blindsided.
It's a decision that seems to be driven purely by ideology, and mostly comes from one of the junior coalition partners (Act). I know for a fact that their leader has been expressing discontent about some of the research being done that has been criticising him (I.e. showing how his party spreads misinformation).
KiaOra, mind pointing me in the direction of that research if anything is available?
The New Zealand Social Media Study did some analysis of fake news during the '20 and '23 election campaigns. They did a bit more in 2020, here are some of their results: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/hppi/psir/psir-research/election/facebook-campaign-communication
I'm actually getting scared now. Project 2025 seems to be global. Every country on Earth is moving in stride with the fascists and seemingly happily so. This planet is about to get very ugly.