hamatsa50.bsky.social
Recovering academic / microbial ecologist / nascent philosopher
Fluent in both academic & national lab-speak
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Important to note intl’s are skewed towards grad students (who in STEM fields may not be paying tuition (as TAs or RAs))
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Ummm ....
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I felt we are living in a particularly relevant time to re-read Orwell’s 1984.
Google AI provides a great example of doublethink
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Ummm …. he’s a Chicagoan (well, technically from Dolton but just a block away from Riverdale neighborhood)
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TBH, I don't care whether he is a Cubs or Sox fan, just as long as they didn't elect Cheesehead Raymond Burke
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Tired: trad vs rad Catholics
Wired: is Pope a Cubs or Sox fan?
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In the traditional Latin Mass:
“Eamus Catuli”
But this from Tribune -- makes more sense as he grew up in Dolton:
According to his brother, the new pope was a Sox fan growing up. “He was never, ever a Cubs fan,” he told WGN News.” So I don’t know where that came from. He was always a Sox fan.”
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#Resisting the conspiracy of silence
Grant Watch is a project to track the termination of grants of scientific research agencies under Trump
We currently are tracking terminations of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
grant-watch.us
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OTOH “financial discipline” is a phrase you never hear re the football program
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I disagree with:
"U.S. is not exceedingly violent or criminal compared with peer nations" -- homicide rate 5X what I consider our peers.
Also, as nerdy scientist, "at least 99.99% of guns and 99.95% of gun owners were not directly involved in fatalities" - true if there are a gazillion guns
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I mean, if he was going on about *terroir* theory, I'd have his back
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Who is being described here?
... never to admit a fault or wrong; never to accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time; blame that enemy for everything that goes wrong; take advantage of every opportunity to raise a political whirlwind.
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He had been swimming against the tide til recently
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Welp, an old one -- what constitutes a bacterial 'species' is well-understood
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Absolutely -- I did a more general survey of the diversity-stability debate in macrobe ecology -- as I recall there were dozens of different takes on the meaning of stability
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See
O’Malley MA (2008). ‘Everything is everywhere: but the environment selects’: Ubiquitous distribution and ecological determinism in microbial biogeography. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 39(3): 314–325.
for some history of this idea
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OK, but this also begs the question of what you mean by "better"
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Cascadia: Go big or go home
[although I'd avoid E WA and OR]
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Yeah, vacillating between Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers (Duck Soup)
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Welp, the USAID cuts mean they’re not ‘trying’ — they have!
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Welp, Solchi 2014 Winter Olympics and 2018 World Cup in Russia + ~6K workers died in Qatar preparing for World Cup.
State terrorism is hardly a deterrent to FIFA or IOC
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Thx so much. Been on 2 week cruise from Cape Horn to Valparaiso. Mostly seen v isolated communities + wilderness. Didn’t realize we’ll have a few h before going to airport
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Agree not enough data but …
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Red Leicester due to be banned in USA cuz it’s Marxist
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💯
When I saw this an hour ago, immediately thought of your work in Our Team re Larry Doby
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Enjoyed the article. IFAB needs to hire logicians to clean up the laws.
Law 14:
“The ball is in play when it is kicked and clearly moves.”
Another touch = infringement “after the penalty kick has been *taken*”
So the phantom touch did not put ball in play — he only touched it once in play
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Wow, very different strategy than where I was at. For ~140 grad students there were about 10 grad-only courses and 35-ish dual level advanced undergrad/grad courses
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Update
US pauses water-sharing negotiations with Canada over Columbia River
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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I have serious doubts whether it is “worth it” in any of tangible ways put forward by advocates.
Plus
“the rest of the enterprise” really means students’ tuition and fees (unless there is hospital generating surplus $)
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Yup, as a youngster I knew Paul Kolenbrander who had done lots of fascinating work re adhesion and oral microbes
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One of the goofiest things about this is that Trump considers himself this brilliant businessman -- but nothing spooks investors like the uncertainty when he changes his proclamations from one day to the next