Federal R&D labs are extremely academic adjacent. I can go on for days about how federal R&D works, but consider employees to be academics.
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Attending conferences is a big part of academia and federal R&D. It's literally part of the job.
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So when the admin looks to assemble A List of Attendees, this is completely isomorphic to authoritarian academic crackdowns, e.g. Turkey.
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The DoE refused to make such a list. Good. But it should be totally revealing that an attempt was even made. Classical authoritarianism.
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@botaniquest@nytimes I read they declinedThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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