American science is shrinking.
A Post analysis found that, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. https://wapo.st/3OgoHKV
hope is that over the next twenty years we shift the opinion around the ivy league. it’s not the best and brightest. it’s a daycare camp for the richest and most dysfunctional children in america.
real scholars go to michigan. they go to ucla and north carolina. they go georgia tech.
Every college and university is trending in the same direction in ways students largely hate and pretending it is necessary to be ‘competitive.’
bless Scaachi
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There's also a kind of intentional myopia in focusing just on higher ed when diagnosing "declining trust." Only one of these explanations also has something to say about why there's simultaneously declining trust in elections, public health authorities, etc, in the same spaces over the same period
The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender.
Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information.
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This is very very big. Like a big deal and massive cuts. These can’t even be seen as budgetary since you don’t get much savings in the context of trillions budget. They want the US out of R&D out of science research.
I highly recommend putting this NASA #Artemis II mission livestream on and just leaving it playing as you go about your weekend. Live views of the spacecraft, occasional visualizations of the current config, views of the control room, space-ground radio audio. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...
When I see Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren endorse Graham Platner, it doesn’t make me trust Platner, it makes me lose respect for Sanders and Warren.
As I sit through a night shift in the ED and watch the barrage of news alerts related to wars around the world come in, I certainly felt this part in my soul: "We are all dragging ourselves along, trying to keep up with whatever version of normalcy has been reconstructed each day."
Okay, the article is real, thanks @marisakabas.bsky.social. May 27, 2008:
“U.S. Marine Corps machinegunner Sgt. Graham Platner says he wears his Blackwater baseball cap just to get a rise out of those who remember the controversial contractor for its heavy-handed tactics”
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“Even if the reconciliation effort falls short, ICE and CBP can operate on what remains of the nearly $140 billion windfall they received under last year’s megabill — far more than the total of $28 billion the two agencies were previously set to receive for the current fiscal year.”
awesome.
this is truly excellent and important work
Climate driven extremes aren’t coming, they’re here…
Trans women are women! To be absolutely clear!
Everything is so stupid and there will come a day when folks look back on the persecution of trans folks with the same moral disgust as other crimes against humanity.
No one needs protection from trans women. We all need protection, tho, from violent hateful bigots.
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No.
TSA workers' union leader blasts ICE for making airport wait times worse:
"They’re getting paid to do nothing. They’re not trained. It takes six months to train a TSA officer. They’ve received none of that. A tweet went out, and the next day they’re at the airport walking around sipping coffees."
NASA might have been the coolest organization on planet earth — a real life/larger than life organization that the smartest people in the world respected, kids dreamed their whole life of working for, & even Hollywood couldn’t make larger than it already was.
So of course Trump ruined it in a year.
All I'm going to say about Graham Platner is I feel like we should have learned our lesson from John Fetterman. Yet here we are.
The paper “shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, were disproportionately affected by terminations, even though they receive less funding from the NIH in general.”
My favorite hobby is spending $200 on groceries and then ordering takeout like a financially reckless raccoon.
"The story would be baffling, except that there’s an obvious explanation: Somebody close to Trump knew what he was about to do, and exploited that inside information to make huge, instant profits."
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lol
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible
Tweet: Breaking: the pentagon is trying to get more than $200 billion from congress for the Iran war.
That’s 82 years of Amtrak funding, but we don’t have money for trains!
lots of jarring statistics and heartbreaking stories I could share from this story, but this particular anecdote made me tear up when @jonathanwosen.bsky.social first shared this story with me
For more details from our survey of ~1000 nih-funded researchers, read the report below
If the people writing policy have “care privilege,” what are they missing?
In this week's episode, Misty Heggeness uses “Swiftynomics” to expose what economics still refuses to see—and why it matters for how our economy actually works.
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