National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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A couple of things I tried… Please validate to tell me I’m not crazy. Searches done on www.nih.gov (linked in post).

These are blocked:

  • “diversity”
  • "diversity "
  • “equity”
  • “inclusion”
  • “DEI”

These are not blocked:

  • “diverse”
  • “diversit”
  • “diversity*”, “inclusion*”, “equity*”
  • “diversitya”
  • “equity and diversity”
  • “diversity and equity”
  • “diversity equity inclusion”

What is the meaning of this

  • @zlatiahOPEnglish
    31•1 day ago

    Yeah no joke. The biomedical community is probably in collective ourage now, since NIH straight up cancelled most grant reviews and all types of outreach… which is unprecedented

    The official NIH website banning specific words is just… cherry on the cake, I suppose. Hence only mildly infuriating

    spoiler

    I swear goodness this gives me way too much of the great China firewall vibe…

    • @[email protected]English
      15•1 day ago

      They have to, effectively. It’s covered in one of the executive orders Trump made day 1. You can look through all of them on whitehouse.gov if you want.

      DEI is explicitly prohibited in governement orgs now. And Trump has his own little personal government force to use against any that don’t play along through the DOGE project/group, headed by Musk.