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Daily review 01/07/2025

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 1st, 2025 - 3 comments
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Daily review is also your post.

This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.

The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).

Don’t forget to be kind to each other …

3 comments on “Daily review 01/07/2025 ”

  1. SPC 1
    1 July 2025 at 7:33 pm

    Water as the new oil

    India is pulling out of a water agreement with Pakistan.

    Egypt and Ethiopia (spared conflict over the retention of water to build a dam) by a war in Sudan keeping them apart.

    Israel cutting off fuel to Gaza so they cannot do desalination for water. This is about more than 11 weeks with no food aid and people using up their savings to buy the remaining food on the market. The new monopoly is controlled shortages hunger games (being shot while collecting it) and the food requires water to prepare – there is a hole in that bucket … . Salt water is very problematic.

    Thames Water and our reforms …

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  2. joe90 2
    1 July 2025 at 7:38 pm

    Governed by semi-morons.

    Duke has lost hundreds of millions in federal research funding this year as the courts and President Donald Trump clash over the future of the National Institutes of Health.

    […]

    Grant Watch contains a field for “tagged_words” — which matches words from a list that The New York Times reported could trigger an automatic review of grants — to words used in a grant’s title or abstract. 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.”

    The 15 canceled NIH grants contained flagged words like “expression,” “disability,” “trans” and “systemic.” However, these words were not used in contexts to promote DEI initiatives, although some may have had diversity supplements including the two described below.

    The grant that had the word “disability” in its abstract focused on identifying biomechanical and biological factors that lead to early onset osteoarthritis following a partial meniscectomy — a surgical procedure commonly done to remove damaged meniscal tissue following a tear. The grant had over $750,000 remaining in funding at the time of termination.

    Furthermore, a grant that had both “trans” and “systemic” in its abstract was working toward editing neural circuits by engineering channel proteins to control the point of contact between two neurons. It had around $1.4 million remaining in funding at the time of termination.

    In most other cases where “trans” was flagged, the term generally referred to other words with the trans- prefix, such as disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies or signal transduction.

    https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025/06/duke-university-national-institutes-of-health-cut-cancel-duke-research-nih-federal-funding-grants-trump-administrations

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  3. aj 3
    1 July 2025 at 8:29 pm

    Very important documentary on our local body politics. Came out last night. Share with all.

    They look like grassroots movements upset about Councils, rates and transparency, but many of them are linked to far right groups, disinformation spreaders and pseudo law followers, being presented as calm and rational.

    In this documentary, we explore the webs they have built, the cross over between them, the impact they can have on communities and individuals and what we can do to ensure they don't get a stranglehold on local democracy.

    https://youtu.be/bOekmUdnN80?si=OoOUTmCOP4ufQjbP

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