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If you like astronomy, there is Mt Wilson, Palomar, JPL. If you like ice age fossils, LA Brea Tar Pits.
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Saw a presentation from software developers about using AI for coding. Many said that beginner developers should not using AI to learn how to code because they need to learn the basics instead of copying whatever AI tells them.
www.oreilly.com/CodingwithAI...
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It elicits different range of responses. I went there once since, never going again, would not recommend it to others. Talk to two people last week who also disliked it.
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Can't completely blame Wharton. Professor William T Kelly told people that “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.”
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If Police gets your DNA, they can track you, all your current relatives, and all future descendants. I advertiser gets your DNA, you will get targeted ads based on your physical characteristics and health. If genetics company gets your DNA, they can create synthetic copies of your genes.
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Thanks for putting the lessons online!
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Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_...
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Wikipedia human cases of H5N1: "Between 2003 and January 2025, the World Health Organization has recorded 971 cases of confirmed H5N1 influenza, leading to 467 deaths. The true fatality rate may be lower because some cases with mild symptoms may not have been identified as H5N1." 46% mortality rate
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"Professor Dave Explains" posted 3 videos. Sabine Hossenfelder Can’t Stop Acting Like a Complete Fraud www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJjP...
No, Sabine, Science is Not Failing www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P_t... Sabine Hossenfelder Can’t Stop Acting Like a Complete Fraud www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJjP...
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I also noticed a change in her videos. In April 2024 she posted a video where she announced she had left academic research system and will focus on scicomm on YouTube. If your income depends mainly on YT views and sponsors, then that will affect the content - this is common issue for YT creators.
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If scientists want the general public to care about the firings, scientists need to explain what effect these firings will have on lives of everyday people who don't have a science career.
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I hope you can use your youtube channel to inform people about the cuts to science and medicine, and the long term implications of those cuts. There are a lot of people who don't know what is going on.
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Gutting NOAA and climate change research also makes the airline industry less safe. Many plane accidents are caused by bad weather. Slashing agencies that make weather alerts and look at long term climate patterns is bad for airline safety.
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Thanks for the reply. In order to make the general public care about the cuts, it needs to be clearly communicated what effects the cuts will have on people's everyday lives. If people can't accurate earthquake alerts, that endangers a lot of people.
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Does that include earthquake alerts?
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@repkamlagerdove.bsky.social has been active on social media giving brief synopsis of the illegal activities.
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Alzheimer's 5K projects, loss of $660 million. ALS 400 projects, loss of $51 million. Dementia 4000 projects, loss of $490 million. The loss amounts are rough estimate if the project had 15% cap was imposed when the project was funded.
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RePORTER has a PROJECT_TERMS field which allows people to search the records by keywords. I did a rough analysis of US projects. In 2024, 13K projects with PROJECT_TERMS "cancer" with $6 billion in funding. If you apply 15% cap, that's a loss of a $1 billion over the lifetime of those projects.
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Did you look at the information from NIH RePORTER? RePORTER has a list of active NIH projects. NIH funded 64K projects and had 79K active projects in the US in 2024. Some ongoing projects started in the 1970s. reporter.nih.gov/exporter
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Talk to the rest of the group to let them know what is going. Also call your Congressperson. AOC said that the increase in calls is making some them pay attention. Rare disorders have to be government funded because private sector isn't going to pay $$$ to find treatment for so few people.
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I read people posts that the cuts will hurt hospitals and medical schools. I did a quick calculation and $3.8 billion will be lost for hospitals and medical schools. Do you think adding a table for that topic will help people see the everyday in impact of the cuts?
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Thanks for doing all the work. Do you need to exclude awards with no direct costs? I think it would be good to show all the projects that the NIH funds. Should Adjusted Funding formula be changed? If old indirect rate is < 15% leave as is, else use the formula you provided.
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On Friday, they announced big cuts to all existing and future NIH funded projects. Lots of NIH programs will need to reduce costs by laying off people and reducing or stopping services. The amount cut will vary from program to program.
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UAB hospital system collapse sounds like a big deal. I did a quick search, and local media have done stories about the closures of rural and small hospital in Alabama. Do you think reporters from the area would do a story about the cuts to UAB and what impact that would have on the entire state?
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Any idea some awards have zero or negative direct costs?
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If you want to be more accurate, then you can look at the reports listed on reporter.nih.gov/exporter. They have DIRECT_COST_AMT, INDIRECT_COST_AMT, TOTAL_COST for each award. It gets confusing because sometimes there are negative, 0, 1 values, or total cost does not equal direct + indirect.
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I'm not in academia. Can you go over how you calculated the direct and indirect costs? I looked at the NIH data for each award, and their numbers don't match your numbers. I looked at UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE. The total funding matches, but indirect and direct costs are different.
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Thanks for the advice. I'm not in academia, so I don't know how to calculate funding. Here's a screenshot of VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY three awards. The first award has DIRECT COST $106K, indirect cost $36K, funding $1. How do I calculate how much VSU will lose?
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I picked an example with a really high indirect cost. Given the 15% cap, how did you calculate the now total grant? I need a math formula to plug into R.
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I think the general public and local press would be more interested in how much money each state, congressional district, city is losing.
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In 2024, VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY was awarded direct cost 171939, indirect cost 60956, total funding 89962, indirect percent 68. How do I calculate how much money they lose with the 15% cap?
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If I have the total NIH indirect cost by state and congressional district for 2024, how do I estimate how much money each state and district will lose?
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If I have the total NIH indirect cost by state for 2024, how do I estimate how much money each state will lose?
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If I have the total NIH indirect cost by state, how do I estimate how much money each state will lose?
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If we have the total NIH indirect cost by state for 2024, is there a way to estimate how much money each state will lose?
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Can you name the states and cities? Create charts and maps to visualize the data?
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I read about LIST's partnership with Vaonis. Would you be open to working with other smart telescope companies? Dwarf Lab is currently the only smart telescope that has an API that lets developers create software to control the telescope.
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Since notification filtering is a much requested feature, would your team consider providing screenshots of the new UI in Bluesky posts or in PR comments so Bluesky users can see the changes before the PR gets merged?
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Have you talked to sleep researchers, historians, and astronomers about light pollution?
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Is there with repo for the code?
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How do scientists get an estimated magnitude for past earthquakes?
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Hi, I'm working on a labeler that will use third party sites such as ORCID to add a verified label. Mind if I message you to share some ideas?
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Does Bluesky dev team have dedicated UI/UX people who do design, mockups, user testing?
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Use this link, set the handle=<value> bsky.social/xrpc/com.atp...
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I noticed that your entry for Salvador Macip i Maresma has a warning about missing qualifier Bluesky DID. www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q942873 CEO Jay Graber has Bluesky DID for Bluesky handle www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117997...
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Umm, the "information" sounds so wrong. For those who want to learn a neat tidbit about Mars, @lrebull.bsky.social posted about the first image taken of Mars in 1965. bsky.app/profile/lreb...
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Does Bluesky dev team have dedicated UI/UX people who do design, mockups, user testing? Or are the front end React Native devs also responsible for UI/UX?