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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.

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[–] SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

There is an overlap with this New York Times Article ( archive )

It seems a list is compiled by observing the words in repealed grants

Noam Ross, a computational researcher part of Grant Watch, told The Chronicle that Grant Watch doesn’t know exactly how grants are flagged for termination, but “suspect that these words are part of a search process for selecting them based on [The New York Times article] and other reporting.”