the discussion under that tweet you linked to includes someone confidently claiming that every cent of that $460k went to "this research"
LOL. So some comments to a tweet are written by idiots. News at 11.
Notice that the tweet itself says only that the NSF funded this paper. This looks to be correct.
I suspect that in practice the NSF grant basically just paid a part of Mark Carey's salary and provided some money to pay his collaborators.
So some comments to a tweet are written by idiots. News at 11.
And someone who I presume is not an idiot wrote here "that research, evidently, was funded by the National Science Foundation to the tune of $460,000". Which is, y'know, not true unless you take "this research" in an outrageously broad sense.
I suspect that in practice [...]
Me too. Which, again, does not mean that the NSF spent $460k on feminist glaciology research.
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