Oh hai: it me!

Now would be a great time for STEM, humanities, and social science academics to realize that they need to unite in defense of academic freedom and adequate researching and working conditions for all of us, irrespective of discipline.

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

At least it’s clarifying that the people most invested in destroying the humanities are also happy to let STEM die on the vine

The image is a black-and-white political cartoon depicting a man in a suit standing behind a counter labeled "Republican Platform." He is holding a bottle labeled "Untaxed Whiskey, 20¢ Gal." in one hand and a piece of cloth labeled "War-Taxed Common Cloth, Tariff 84%" in the other. Above the counter, a sign reads, "If you don’t see what you want, ask for it." The cartoon, signed by W.A. Rogers, appears to satirize the Republican Party's economic policies, highlighting the disparity in taxation between luxury items like whiskey and essential goods like cloth.

In 1890, the Tariff Act came into place in the United States. It placed tariffs on imports of up to 50%.
While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired.
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When we were grad students in the hist. of science, Roger Turner developed a concept that we need: a category of science called “infrastructural sciences”

They’re operated by the state, and since the administration is working to break as many as possible, we should think about what they are. 🧵

Self-care, or, applied pedantry: a memoir

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.” The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude meth...

If only there was a well-established discipline that studied how words have different meanings in different contexts.

The New Variorum, aka “thicc description”.