“Congress did fund NIH. That is true. The President signed the appropriation. The money exists.
But the grants are not necessarily moving.”
Great piece from Liz Ginexi detailing why.
Add to this all of this new screening is happening with 20% less staff.
open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Are you a new(ish) math professor? Know someone who is? MAA Project NExT is a fantastic way to jumpstart a career in higher ed math. Applications are due today!
maa.org/maa-project-...
This looks awesome.
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.
King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
Text: HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP STATEMENT ON DONALD TRUMP'S THREAT TO KILL A WHOLE CIVILIZATION "Donald Trump is completely unhinged. His statement threatening to eradicate an entire civilization shocks the conscience and requires a decisive congressional response. The House must come back into session immediately and vote to end this reckless war of choice in the Middle East before Donald Trump plunges our country into World War III. "For years, Republicans have enabled and excused Donald Trump's deeply dangerous and extreme behavior. Enough is enough. Our brave men and women in uniform have been put into harm's way in the Middle East. Over a dozen have already been killed and hundreds injured. Gas prices are skyrocketing, the cost of living in America is out of control and billions of taxpayer dollars are being wasted on a reckless war of choice. "It's time for House Republicans to put patriotic duty over party loyalty and join Democrats in stopping this madness.' HOUSE DEMOCRATS
House Democrats are demanding Congress return to session NOW to stop Trump's lunacy. 12+ U.S. troops dead. Hundreds injured. Billions wasted. And Trump is threatening to eradicate a whole civilization. Call Republicans at the Congressional Switchboard: 1-202-224-3121.
A beaver floating in the water and chewing on a small twig. Her sharp claws can be seen as she holds the twig.
Certainly there are issues of far greater importance in the world today, but if you need a brief distraction, worth noting that today is International Beaver Day. #wildlife #beaver
Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.
That's home. That's us.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
A screenshot showing: Introduction These are notes for my class on probability models. In these notes, I walk through the concepts and computation that support modern probability modeling in political science using both maximum likelihood and Bayesian approaches. The Goal There are many excellent books on probability models. But I felt the need to write my own. Why? I saw three problems. First, some classes assign a huge textbook. It might be possible for the strongest and most motivated students to become familiar with the range of topics covered in these textbook, but impossible to master. Instead, these textbooks seem like references, something you’re supposed to constantly be referring back to throughout your career. I know this because many of these books have instructors’ guides that suggest what should be covered in a single semester, what should be skipped, and how one might jump around. Instead, I want a book that students can work through beginning to end and master each idea. Second, some classes assign a variety of sections from several books and a collection of articles. But then the story told in the readings isn’t coherent. The styles are changing, the author’s tastes are changing, and the notation is changing. Switching among authors can feel like whiplash when learning a difficult subject. Instead, I want a book that tells a continuous story with consistent style, tastes, and notation. Third, some classes assign readings that support the lecture material, without exact alignment between the two. For better or worse, the content covered by the instructor in class feels like the most important material. Thus, I want a book that exactly aligns with the material I cover in class.
You guys @carlislerainey.bsky.social has a free textbook online and it seems really useful pos5747.github.io/notes/
Have you ever applied to an NSF grant? Then do this.
A line graph of the number of NSF awards in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves and increasing only very slowly.
NSF Update through March 13, 2026
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While working full-time & raising a child, Grace Wahba earned advanced degrees, completing her PhD at Stanford and becoming the first female faculty member in statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. #womenshistorymonth #statwomen magazine.amstat.org/blog/2026/03... #statssky
Ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to answer 275 emails per day and argue with administrators. That’s why I chose a career in academia.
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
it used to be that you only had to catch up on the horrors two or three times a day but then they said oh no no no that’s not enough horrors
Nothing I love more than a scathing, borderline-petty academic book review. Truly the best tradition in the genre.
Has anyone written about how "leadership" is sometimes used in weird ways (sometimes related to right-wing partisanship) in evangelical spaces? Scott McKnight touched on this a little in Church Called Tov.
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
Fascinating thread:
you should not share a post that's a screenshot without a link to a news item. you should not share a post that's a video or picture without some kind of sourcing. we're in a new bad era and these are now basic practices.
... also photogs and journos gotta eat so share their work.
Happening now: a large group of mostly clergy — primarily local faith leaders, some not — are staging an anti-ICE protest at the Minneapolis airport.
Graphic announcing AMS-Simons research enhancement grants awarded to PUI faculty with molecular network design on blue background.
Applications for the AMS-Simons Research Enhancement Grants for Primarily Undergraduate Institution Faculty are now open. Learn more and apply today: www.ams.org/grants-awards/ams-simons...
My niece is a pastor at a church about 10 blocks away from the Minneapolis shooting and was one of the first clergy on scene. She asks for prayers.
And we're live, Lecture A1 is online. Introduction to Bayesian workflow, generative models, estimands, estimators, estimates, error checking, beginnings of probability theory and Bayesian updating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbY...
Alone in a Montana hotel room, Yvonne entered a full-on spiritual crisis. She was already upset by the church closing in-person services and moving all activities online. The negative reactions to her COVID protests by church leaders deepened her discontent and questioning. That night she searched for "the truth" in YouTube videos on QAnon. She reflects now on that time: I was very active in our church and was a youth staff volunteer. When the church closed, again that same spirit of wake-up came through and started having me question everything. We were doing youth group online via Zoom, and we were also attending church through live videos—all of which felt so wrong on a soul level. I didn't understand how the church could close. God isn't scared of a disease. I knew now more than ever the churches should be open and available, not closing their doors. The church closing was my biggest red flag and a monumental decision that really exposed to me to who was controlling the church. I saw that the God I had been searching for my entire life really wasn't the God I had learned about in the church. Yvonne started messaging back and forth with church leaders, mostly by recording videos of herself that she posted to YouTube. She started sending them links to the videos that had her questioning her Christian faith. Her response to the concerns from church leaders was to watch even more videos about Anon and spirituality that countered Christian teachings. Looking back now, she sees that as a pivotal moment in her spiritual Journey and even expresses a measure of gratitude. "That's when the Creator showed up in a big way and really started to dismantle my belief system as quickly and gently as It could without completely ruining me. I see that now," she wrote in a Facebook post directed to church leaders. "Thank you," she
It is really hard to overstate the effects of COVID-related church restrictions and closures, both in terms of politicizing once-political churches and pushing countless Americans into the depths of a radical, conspiracy theory rabbit hole.
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