Shrewd analysis.

Allegri, Miserere Mei Deus - Choir of New College Oxford YouTube video by The Choir of New College Oxford

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White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy.

NEW: Citations in the MAHA Report have telltale signs of AI chatbot use -- we reviewed all 522 of the listed citations, and at least 37 of the footnotes appear multiple times in the citations with another 21 having dead links

w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social

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Honorare für freie Journalist*innen, die 17492929.

Anfrage für eine Panelmoderation. Fachspezifisch. Von einer Stiftung. Leider, leider habe man nicht so viel Budget. Man könne mir 250 € bieten.

Jetzt könnte ich sagen: Nagut. Besser als nix. Und ich könnte einfach ohne Vorbereitung da hin
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Stoppa SD och Ms slakt av SVT och SR Regeringen med stöd av SD har nu presenterat sin plan för att börja detaljstyra och skära ner på Public Service (SVT, SR och UR), de går längre än någon kunde ana. Får de igenom den så kommer SVT, SR...

Attacks on public service ... not only in the US :-(
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Good cover @economist.com

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

NASA celebrated this employee's story of resilience, then tried to scrub it from the internet. Then fired her.

A school teacher contacted her to ask about the missing page, which many teachers have used as part of their classroom STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) presentations. #edusky
purescience.news/article?id=4...

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/u...

A photo of a researcher in the norwegian fjords with the following text: Inès Ollivier will defend her PhD degree at the @unibergen.bsky.social on 16.5.2025 with the thesis "Impact of Surface Processes on the Antarctic Water Isotope Climate Signal".

Inès Ollivier will defend her PhD degree at the @unibergen.bsky.social on 16.5.2025 with the thesis "Impact of Surface Processes on the Antarctic Water Isotope Climate Signal".

This is one of the absolute best resources out there for science teachers to use to help students visualize and understand scientific processes. It was a godsend during the pandemic when in-person labs were not possible. And it's free for all to use. So disappointing. 🧪🎢 ⚛️ 🥽 🍎 #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF

An anniversary worth marking.

I'm sure we're going to see the very people who have trashed its legacy seek to appropriate WW2 today - so let's remember what was really fought for: peace, a more united Europe, a land fit for heroes (mark 2) and the defeat of fascism.

‘Toxic agenda’: Chris Hayes on the Republican ‘Sesame Street problem’ YouTube video by MSNBC

Wall street or Sesame Street
and Mr Rogers goes to Washington
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

- Intäkterna och kostnaderna är förutsägbara.
- Det finns ingen prispress från andra aktörer eftersom skolpengen baseras på kommunens kostnader.
- God rörelsekapitalprofil, låta kapitalinvesteringar och växande kassaflöden.

= Företagsekonomilingo för ETT JÄVLIGT BRA CASE!

Updates on NSF Priorities

Have you seen this? Along with DEI work, NSF is terminating research on disinformation and misinformation. Maybe knowledge really is power...

www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

An Inside Look at the NYC Subway’s Archaic Signal System (Gift Article) Vast swaths of the subway still rely on signal equipment from the Great Depression. A multibillion dollar plan, now at risk, hopes to bring the system into the 21st century

Ever wonder what "signal problems" means when your train is delayed? It likely has something to do with a machine the size of a grand piano, built during the Great Depression. We take a close look at the tired equipment running the subway, and what could replace it www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose…

"the war on measurement has an obvious potential motivation: making it harder for critics to gauge fallout resulting from Trump administration layoffs, deregulation or other shifts in policy…"

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I read about some scientist who told that as a child he was at a boring party next to Richard Feynman, who started to entertain him with questions like this, and about the argument that there are as many rational numbers as integers, etc,

Seth Rogen’s Trump Jokes Are Edited Out of Awards Broadcast While presenting an award at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony this month, Mr. Rogen said President Trump had “single-handedly destroyed all of American science.”

Seth Rogen said President Trump had “single-handedly destroyed all of American science” while presenting an award at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony — sometimes called the “Oscars of Science” — where Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg were in attendance. Rogen's comments were cut from the broadcast.

Searching for "disappear them" in Google Ngram viewer

I guess there will be a new peak in the use of "disappear" as a transitive verb:
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William Phillips: Nobel laureate talks about his passion for quantum physics – Physics World Laser-cooling expert looks to the future of quantum technologies

Nobel laureate Bill Phillips on his life in quantum physics and why he is looking forward to quantum technologies of the future 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/yLaG50VuLpu

Skärpta regler för vinster oroar friskolebranschen Friskolornas branschorganisation är rädd att reglerna ska stjälpa mindre friskolor med små marginaler.

Blir lite avis på konkurrenternas kommunikationskanaler men sånt är livet. Nu drar jag på föreläsningsturne om marknadsskolan. Örebro imorgon, Skövde på onsdag och Huddinge på torsdag. Men först Degerfors - Värnamo på Stora Valla!

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Trump cuts threaten a measurement lab critical for advanced chips and medical devices The Atomic Spectroscopy Group provides standardized measurements used across wide swaths of science and industry. The Trump administration plans to cut it.

The NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Group "maintains a database of atomic spectra. ... Every month, the database receives around 70,000 queries from around the world ... and it's cited in two research papers per day" www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n... #iTeachPhysics

Opinion | Read This if You’re on Trump’s National Security Team (Gift Article) Trust your staff, admit mistakes, don’t embarrass the president.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? (Gift Article) Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.

Why are seed bunkers needed ? Does science understanding matter? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

Thanks Roger for posting this. Of course it finds a number of papers and other text by me (and relations). Although in most cases it is the IOPPublishing or the AIP owning the copyright.

March 21, 2025 These days, I keep coming back to the quotation recorded by journalist Ron Suskind in a New York Times Magazine article in 2004.

March 21, 2025

Opinion | The free-living bureaucrat Michael Lewis on Heather Stone of the Food and Drug Administration.

Who is government?
Long story. Worth reading
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