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Separating myself from academia, where DOD/DOE/oil money was the lifeblood of my career.
Wow. @BenFranta and @GeoffreySupran talk about how Big Oil has colonized academia. Thanks for sharing.
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My PhD was directed from numerical software into seismic exploration (fast estimation of the underground rock properties), so my expertise became tied to that industry. I wouldn't say *all* of academia, but DOE/DOD/oil funds a big chunk of non-ML computational science.
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Well, any amount of funding by oil and gas interests in academia is too much. But it's a LOT. See this: "FRONT PAGE of
@BostonGlobe:@MIT to rename climate science lecture hall the *Shell* Auditorium. (Seriously. This isn't@TheOnion.)"https://twitter.com/emahlee/status/1199038596025442304 …We live in Orwellian times. War is peace. 2+2=5.@MIT renames climate science lecture hall
SHELL Auditorium 
. I wish this were satire, but it isn't.
More below from @GeoffreySupran and@BenFranta on "the invisible colonization of academia by the fossil fuel industry." https://twitter.com/GeoffreySupran/status/1199026635904675841 … - 1 more reply
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