I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
it’s not hyperbole, JKR literally said support for HP is support for her transphobia
and she uses the money she makes from it to TRY TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY
if you watch that show please don’t ever speak to me again
trans lives are more important than your fandom of a terrible human’s IP
As a child, @phosphotig.bsky.social dreamed of being an astronaut, but her curiosity led her to scientific research. Now, she leads her own lab at UNC-Chapel Hill, & studies oxidative stress to find better therapies for triple-negative breast cancer. #WomensHistoryMonth
www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...
Project Hail Mary was just as good as I hoped it would be. However, content warning for biologists -- at one point there is an unbalanced centrifuge. I just closed my eyes until it was over.
The NIH moving to only allowing 6 total applications per year will have a disproportionate effect on marginalized scientists.
"P-Hacking with one prompt" by Shigeto Kawahara.
TL/DR: Ask LLMs to find a significant effect, and they will oblige.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Once again, I implore media outlets to stop saying these are CDC decisions.
These are changes being made unilaterally by RFK Jr. against the expert advice of CDC scientists.
I note that RFK Jr. no longer recommends flu vaccine for kids in the midst of a horrible influenza year.
Wow
I agree with EVERY SINGLE ONE of these rules. I came to most of them on my own because I never had any mentorship for my mentorship. And despite being published in PLOS Comp Bio, they apply to EVERY undergraduate and masters student project.
Marching and protesting is great but real action is even better. If you can afford it, find and donate to a local food pantry in your area. The families that depend on SNAP benefits could really use the support over coming weeks to months.❤️🫂
give.feedingamerica.org/SnP--N8F9EuA...
Hey guys... this is serious please go and opt out NOW!
These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.
My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.
We found 437 of them.
Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
Please give feedback. I know I'm considering the new NIH mandate that open access has to be immediately available, meaning that grantees are footing open access bills at journals to meet the mandate. That can mean $5-$12K a paper of taxpayers money.
No, no, this is all wrong. The quote is actually supposed to be "let them eat cake".
Apropos of nothing, Happy Bastille day to all those who celebrate.
There are currently more kids in Texas with measles than there are transgender collegiate athletes in all of America.
Guess which one they want you to focus on.
$123,536,510 of federally appropriated funding has been stolen from Virginia schools
On just one Friday the Supreme Court brought my citizenship into question and the Trump administration gutted my employer and possibly threaten my career. I could only write about one of those things. newrepublic.com/article/1973...
In the fallout of James Ryan resigning from UVA, @sivav.bsky.social provides a clear argument of what higher ed is facing & why capitulation will not save you. newrepublic.com/article/1973...
thank you, @sivav.bsky.social, for putting a lot of what I’m furious about in plain language. newrepublic.com/article/1973...
PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr.
Scientific American has published a guide to the EVIDENCE-BASED vaccine recommendations in place BEFORE ACIP members were removed by the administration.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
So happy to see this work is out and I hope it helps people find their best lab fit!
Charlottesville is turning into an e-bike city!
Great article from @nathanalderman.bsky.social on the @cvillecityhall.bsky.social e-bike voucher program, which is one piece of the city’s efforts to create a better transportation system.
c-ville.com/citys-e-bike...
Almost all Nobel Prizes are awarded for work that is exploratory, or absolutely basic science with no obvious commercial or medical benefit.
You cannot predict where advancements come from, so you have to invest in science and scientists.
Targeted (corporate) science investment will never do this.
Grant freezes versus terminations feel different, but they have the same practical effect.
We should start treating freezes as terminations, both of which can be undone by HHS / NIH whenever they want—or by court order if they refuse. They’re all illegal.
say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
This is devastating for American science, health, technology, and the economy.
We updated the reporting form today to clarify that we're also collecting info on "stop-work orders, unexpected non-renewals, or effective termination through updated notice of award." grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...
We’ve become so desensitized to corruption that the Attorney General who spent years lobbying on behalf of Qatar approved a private jet gift from Qatar and it’s not even in the top 10 scandals of the week.
“The results revealed that researchers who received renewals without a funding gap were less likely to switch research topics and investigate a wide array of subjects than were those in the control group, and they produced papers featuring newer or more unconventional combinations of ideas”