My TL isn’t helping my mood, so here’s some scenery (Smith Rock State Park, OR).

A diagram showing that 24 annually funded grants becomes only 15 funded grants if 50% of the funds for competitive grants are used for multi-year funding.

I was preparing for a talk I gave last evening to a lay audience and came up with this graphic to explain multi-year funding and why it leads to fewer competitive awards and funding investigators and projects.

6/8

I once tabulated experiences from my lab and collaborative papers. Some journals definitely took more time and effort. But the selection seemed more to be on how badly the senior author wanted that badge than on how much the paper moved the science - or how well it held up after. YMMV.

Suspicious of what? Personally I do not find desirable journals that want 27 supplemental figures that neither enhance the rigor nor move the story.

I remember normal. Normal was awesome. I wish I could swim in a big pool of normal right now.

120th?

They keep breaking the rules, man. Haven’t bacteria even read like one textbook?

“Here I come to save the day.”
Andy 19:75

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It’s Jackie Robinson Day and “42” is still great.

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“Duh!” economists warn.

Sending a fren for good luck

New preprint from our team: complex microbial consortia improved lettuce and spinach performance under 30% reduced irrigation, including better yield, less wilting, improved root growth, and reduced harvest delay.

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“You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.”
James Thurber

and you are weak on commandments 2, 4, 6-10, and all 8 beatitudes.

To really test his newfound powers, JD Vance should instantly announce that he has been a lifelong fan of and heartily endorses the LA Dodgers

Hungary for democracy.

Do not share with university administration.

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

Just the dumbest timeline

I know you rack up a lot of miles, but

I'm moonscrolling

Fig is an under-appreciated fruit and delicious on pizza.

That may be part. But too many flavors of pathology to cover in a skeet. I always liked the framing attributed to Botstein, “is it new and is it true?” Which works for both reading and reviewing.