Reading a book on the Thirty Years War. The armies are like, half the size they started out as by the time they reach the field. Wallenstein, Adolphus or Tilly would have viewed modern vaccines as a legitimate god-given miracle.
The gutting of state funding for state universities is something academia needs to never stop talking about.
Reading military history is an exercise in reading about outbreaks, and whole campaigns and wars being undone by disease.
This is insane.
Wish I was.
That's why it took me a couple days to write it ;)
I've written an email to the president of SER. I'd encourage others to do likewise.
This is me and the em-dash
Armies are famously not things that march on their stomachs.
Personally I appreciate Brontosaurus for the "That's not a species, oh wait it might be..." comeback story.
Drove it so much growing up in CO, never enjoyed it, but the pass was worse unless it was a really nice day.
Absolutely stunned that the Society for Epidemiologic Research chose John Ioannidis to deliver the conference keynote in the Year of Our Lord 2026.
Imagine thinking not even "Do more with less" but "Do the same with less" was some sort of untenable position to ask of people.
This is going to leave a generational scar.
Senior colleagues - please pay attention to this.
Junior colleagues - I know it's *wild* out there, but please do what you can to help us tell the story of how you would have been funded if not for The Goings On.
"It's a shame that the Pope has made the Catholic Church political."
*vibrates in rage at previously unmeasurable frequencies as both an ex-Catholic and as someone who loves the history of the Thirty Years War*
"...place the aid programs under UN control so they cannot be used as tools of political influence"
I have some very bad news for you.
A dropdown of state names where the various "New" and "North" states are ordered by their second name (e.g. North Carolina comes before New York)
Working on updating my Biosketch, and it's a small thing, but what the hell is this dropdown?
"Join us for a lively panel on structural stability, featuring two professional arsonists, a firefighter, and an insurance adjuster."
Just finished working on a "Corrupted Blood in retrospect" paper :)
Watching a bunch of AI department layoffs and wondering if higher ed is speedrunning it's usual "This is the job of the future! We need to cut programs to make a new major!" to "We're quietly sweeping that back under the rug and finding an Associate Dean something else to keep busy" pipeline.
“COVID can’t be that serious, it’s not like there are bodies in the street.”
Tragic. Please pass this along to US Chairs and Deans, and consider it when you sit on promotion committees. This, combined with the review backlog, is dire - especially for our early career researchers.
I love the rotation system we have here at WSU, but between that and admissions, it's always sort of a funny time of year for planning.
"Roll a d3 for the number of graduate students in your lab next semester."
I feel like y'all have a fundraising opportunity...
Honestly this video is horrifying *before* you think about how these creators have the gall to spout this nonsense and then claim to have a Ghibli aesthetic.
But after you realize that, it’s downright repulsive.
“Oh you should be online to try to provide value to your political side” fuck that that’s nerd shit you should be online because you’re unwell and need to tell people about weird animals you saw
Thanks Fer
The best dog in the world napping on a teal dog bed.
2025 continues to be the worst fucking year. Everyone hug your pets and give them an extra treat for me please.
