Just biked my kid to school as well. Cargo bikes are way faster than cars for school drop offs- plus, no battle for parking.

Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

Trump Administration Will Review Billions in Funding for Harvard The move follows the cancellation of roughly $400 million in funding for Columbia and the suspension of $175 million for the University of Pennsylvania.

Harvard in the crosshairs: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...

“Love Peace Science” sign

NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars

The National Institutes of Health plans to severely cut the percentage of its grant money that can be used for overhead costs rather than research.

Harvard Medical School - BIDMC - Broad Institute
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Have you read anything by Becky Chambers? I think you’d love her work. Happy to lend a book next time I see you or Dave.

Making Tea

True story!

xkcd.com/3022/

I’m proud to join more than 30 colleagues today in sharing our analysis of potential risks from “mirror life”. We summarize our findings in a @science.org article, and in greater detail in a 300pg technical report:

Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Report: purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036

Cervical cancer mortality in US women younger than 25 years significantly declined between 2016 and 2021, likely due to the widespread adoption of HPV vaccination.

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