cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/66179165

"We cannot resign our research community and the laboratory and university staff who support them to die the death of a thousand ten-minute tasks,” said OSTP Director Michael Kratsios in a speech last month at the National Academy of Sciences.

Says the guy that is Science Advisor in an administration that just cut the grant budget for support staff like janitors and animal care??

(Obligatory reminder, Kratsios also served as Trump’s default Science Advisor during his first term until 2018: Trump’s de facto science adviser is 31 and has no science training, and tasked with using cutting edge technology to track early cases of COVID in the U.S., and prevent the spread of online disinformation in March of 2020 🙃)

Responding to the administration’s interest in deregulation, the National Academies formed a committee earlier this year that will suggest ways to reduce the administrative burden placed on researchers. Lynne Parker, principal deputy director of OSTP, participated in the panel’s kickoff meeting on May 21.

Ways to reduce the administrative burden placed on researchers? Interesting, wonder what that could possibly mean? Anyway, totally unrelated but here’s a 2023 article about Parker:

Preparing to train an AI-ready workforce in Tennessee

The Academies committee is seeking to complete its report quickly and is requesting outside input through a survey,  which closes June 6. The committee also plans to hold its next open meeting  on that day.