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The current leniency period previously communicated in NOT-OD-26-033 will end on May 7, 2026. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOTING THIS. 🫤

A Christian economy?

Universal healthcare
A livable wage
Debt forgiveness
Care for the orphan widow and stranger

This is eugenics.

I am one of the people they want to "clean up." I have long-term health issues that cause me to need expensive medications and occasionally procedures to maintain a baseline.

I am disabled, and don't "work" in a way they recognize.

RFK Jr wants me dead.

This goes extra intensely for academic writing, in my opinion. If you're using gAI to think (because that is what writing is) why should anyone read it? And sending AI generated writing off for peer review is just...

“Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability.”

That part! Everything from documentation to compliance mechanisms to whistleblowing is a threat.

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Today is the 251st anniversary of the Shot Heard Round the World.

War and Pizza - 99% Invisible Households tend to take pantry food for granted, but canned beans, powdered cheese, and bags of moist cookies were not designed for everyday convenience. These standard products were made to meet the ...

"Households tend to take pantry food for granted, but canned beans, powdered cheese, and bags of moist cookies were not designed for everyday convenience. These standard products were made to meet the needs of the military."

Officially out today! Long-running project, many thanks to give - in particular to my mentors & collaborators, the postbacs who worked so hard on each experiment, and the reviewers. If you love the amygdala, give it a read.
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We need to cooperate, not just collaborate

I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name

OAI: say no more

Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.

The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.

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BoneDance - "No Moon" YouTube video by waynehump1

I like this one, too. One day while taking the Neural Systems and behavior course, I was sitting in a dark room pulling electrodes and singing this to myself. At one point someone came in when I had just finished this song to wonder about the radio. Nope. Just me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2cu...

BoneDance - "Shed" YouTube video by waynehump1

One of the last songs we wrote with a very silly video our guitar player put together ages ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2G...

I'm raking through the 3rd edition of the Handbook again, sad to be removing references to the Institute for Education Science, changing "DOD" to "military".

So I'm going to indulge in Throwback Thursday, BoneDance, my band from the late 90s, early 2000s.

On minor quibble: they don't hallucinate.

What they do is produce outputs that might or might not relate to real world situations. "hallucination" would require at least an attempt to match the real world and also implies a degree of consciousness neither of which happen with LLMs.

Stopped at a minimarket in the 80s, my pre-goth glamour punk era, the guys drinking beer in paper bags made comments. On my way back to the car, one of them sang out

You got to know when to hold 'em

Of course I stopped and answered, Know when to fold 'em

We swapped lines, harmonizing at the end.

“The attacks on science also created a new talent pool for Silicon Valley to exploit: newly displaced STEM researchers. “

Care in the Academy Care, Compassion, and Community

Care in the Academy is now OFF substack, and exclusively available on Ghost. You can check out our past posts at the link below - new stuff coming soon! care-in-the-academy.ghost.io

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3rd edition done. Needs formatting and checking of the chapter references since I added a new chapter at the beginning on seeing your research enterprise as an enterprise (some of our research leadership content). Anybody need a grant writing handbook?

people just don't like to be reminded that much of what makes up the internet is funny black teenagers, and that a lot of the language they use comes directly from them (it's giving, that part, clocked it, the tea, etc etc)

“Universities are about engaging deeply with the subject matter. The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying & dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”

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What the death of Direct File tells us about state capacity We CAN have nice things - if we want them

New, from me: American taxpayers will spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars — not to pay their taxes, but to report them to the government.
Thank Trump, who killed Direct File, a free tax high-quality reporting tool that IRS had built. 🧵
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Traditional: "The mammalian cortex is composed of 17 billion neurons and we're not even sure of how many types there are"

Revised: "The mammalian cortex is five neurons and they're all roomates"

I love it when I see a preprint that really shakes up my view of how the brain works.

Any government that isn't right now accelerating plans to transition to 100% clean, renewable energy is either:

a. Incompetent
b. In the pockets of people who'd rather they didn't
c. a & b

💯. I grew up with it in Orlando, of all places (Mom from PA). Always stocked up on it at the Graul’s in Annapolis. Now my son graduated, so we don’t have another reason to stop there.

FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.

Signal already has a setting that blocks message content from displaying in push notifications; the case highlights why such a feature might be important for some users to turn on. www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

My step-dad died of pancreatic cancer. It was brutal and I’d do anything to prevent another family from having to go through it. Livid.