[Zaheer]

Related paulg tweet: https://x.com/paulg/status/1951996478555357530

"The Trump administration has suspended the funding of Terence Tao and the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA."

[abetusk]

Terence Tao's toot on mathstodon.xyz: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114956840959338146

[noncoml]

The replies to his tweet are a cesspool. Why do people still use Twitter?

[v5v3]

Because it has an enormous userbase including active daily postings from many of the most prominent minds.

[ojbyrne]

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[mschuster91]

> The replies to his tweet are a cesspool.

Maybe it's just Twitter's algorithm that only serves me the decent replies - but these at least have a point, antisemitism is running utterly rampant in academia these days. In no relation to Qatari funding, one might assume...

[mindslight]

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[intermerda]

Paul Graham? Pretty sure he was anti-Trump before the last election.

But I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s one of those “enlightened centrists.”

[shrubble]

All bureaucrats do this sort of thing: shut down something innocent to serve as a rallying cry.

UCLA has $8 billion in endowments and the state universities in total have $30 billion in endowment funds. How many years could they fund Tao and his institute if they really wanted to?

[noelwelsh]

The govt has frozen about $584 million in grants to UCLA. The endowment won't last very long if they spent it to replace that. Furthermore, endowment money often has conditions that prevent it being spent freely + it is used for other things.