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UW biology prof. I study how information flows in biology, science, and society. Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk I don't like fascists. he/him
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Cutting federal funding to cancer research to pay for an endless line of tanks filing past the Washington monument.

submitted 4 hours ago • 24 comments

1. OpenAI wants to transform college education "by embedding its artificial intelligence tools in every facet of campus."

submitted 4 hours ago • 15 comments

Congratulations to one of the best students I’ve had in my 24 years of teaching at the University of Washington.

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

"Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems." Pure vandalism. This could never happen in a country with functioning checks and balances.

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

Wonderful, wonderful news. (Gift link). One down. 277 to go.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I'm only one season in, but in my mind this is unquestionably the greatest television series ever made.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

We interrupt our regularly scheduled shitshow for a bit of delightful bird behavior.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

They're what now?

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Hey anyone want to be part of a BlueSky truth squad next week when Jay Bhattacharya testifies before Congress? Would mean live-skeeting the hearings. DM if interested so we can coordinate. #NIH #Science #MedSky #EpiSky

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

been posting bangers all day but can't compete with [gestures all around] this....

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 2 days ago • 644 comments

“I didn’t fail. YOU failed! My answers were perfect for the questions you asked. Clearly, none of you have the expertise needed to properly engage in the interrogative dialogue of a PhD examination!” Campus security tightened his grip on my arm as the last of the faculty slipped from the room.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Following up on my thread from before, here's Stuart Buck, whose been meeting with HHS, arguing we should a) cut indirect costs b) move funds outside of the academy c) Empower *this* NIH to hunt frauds and such etc... You know, Gold-Standard science stuff. paragoninstitute.org/public-healt...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Racist POS.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Even ChatGPT o.3 hallucinates papers when asked to do this. Submitting a narrative CV that includes papers that you didn't write and don't exist strikes me as a serious, actionable instance of academic misconduct. TERRIBLE ADVICE from Andrew's office of research services.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

This is your health on MAGA.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments