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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 66 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Me trying to get grants for my rat trebuchet

[–] Tropic420@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Is it operated by rats or throwing rats?

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Trebuchet of the rats, by the rats, for the rats.

Lowers binoculars and looks at my fellow Imperial gunners

See them? The rats are up to something.

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