Error correct and new analysis
I had posted a short thread about progress on NIH non-competitive renewals awards through early April and was a bit surprised that NIH seemed to be doing as well as the data indicated.
I found a small bug in my code affecting months in calendar 2026.
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Rory yes!
Rory no!
It’s brutal in academia right now. A lot is out of our control, but it doesn’t cost anything to remember that there are humans behind papers and grants…reviewers, program officials and funders can be more empathetic in the face of unprecedented chaos in the US scientific enterprise.
Now that's not what you want to see in your TC room
🥳 🎉 New preprint from the lab is out!
It's time to officially introduce the world to the Nucleolar Integrity and Stress Microprotein (NISM)!
Check out the preprint in the link below
It’s the ribosome’s world and we’re just living in it
$300 Million in jet planes lost to a fuckup.
That’s 83 five year NIH R01 grants burned in minutes due to error, aka poor execution of this unnecessary war which serves only to make the world more dangerous.
That's right. Worse than Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...
🥳 🎉 New preprint from the lab is out!
It's time to officially introduce the world to the Nucleolar Integrity and Stress Microprotein (NISM)!
Check out the preprint in the link below
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
congrats!
Pleased to share the final version of this behemoth of a paper, now finally published. I guess I can retire now?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
More functional data, many thousands of words removed, and a few other updates from last year's preprint.
Ooooo
Labneh is a constant stock in my fridge! Always arab brands. 🙂 never heard of the mexican fusion though!
I had no idea thats a thing! Def need to find that now
What does a Mexican-Arab guy bring to the super bowl party? Homemade guacamole and hummus, of course.😄
Bawling my eyes out at this. THIS is why we need art and culture. THIS is why language and literacy is so important. It’s all there, to be gleaned. As he says, 400 years ago! Twas ever thus.
A line plot with the numbers of NSF awards for fiscal years 2021-2026. The curve for fiscal year 2026 is quite a bit lower than those for 2021-2025 while the curve for fiscal year 2026 (in red) is much lower than all through the same date.
But, as they say, there is no time like the present
[OK, maybe the 1930s if you want to nitpick]
But, with some data wrangling, my first NSF Funding Curves!
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
A drawing of an aluminum fluoride glyphosate complex, that makes no sense whatsoever.
BEHOLD! The glyphosate-aluminum-fluoride complex! Found here:
gmoscience.org/2026/01/26/t...
First they came for the brown people, and I said nothing
Then they came for the white people and I said now hang on a minute gang this is pretty fucked up
And am utterly sickened and heartbroken by the state of our country.
Members of my family have resorted to carrying their passports with them everywhere. I do, too. If you don’t understand why, or think we’re paranoid, or have never once thought to do the same, consider yourself lucky. I am so sick and tired of worrying about proving we belong here.
i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
