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dangaristo.bsky.social
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The Occam/Chekhov/Chesterton Razor/Gun/Fence matrix. Summer’s off to a productive start.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Just in: NIH staff have been instructed to REINSTATE these ~900 grants to comply with the court order, per sources. This comes after staff were also directed to cease any further terminations. You can see the lists grants to be reinstated in my post below.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The 500 additional GRFPs NSF awarded were not very evenly distributed across fields, it seems. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

"[W]e are watching Silicon Valley struggle to imagine how normal humans might use this technology ... Can’t remember the name of a store that you’ve been to several times, or what your daughter’s goldfish looked like? If, for some reason, your brain stops functioning, Meta’s got you."

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes. This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

It's great that folks on here are not uncritically trusting everything that gets posted and are instead asking for a source, links, etc. —especially in the case when the news is, frankly, a bit unbelievable. ...but now this is in an actual news article 🙃 www.alxnow.com/2025/06/24/r...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

submitted 2 days ago • 112 comments

A lucid and lovely graphical breakdown.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: Judge denies NSF's 15% indirect rate plan. Like the DOE and NIH attempts, it too has now been rejected by courts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

submitted 8 days ago • 107 comments

An intense, shocking read, raising all kinds of questions. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

At a comms level, it seems the strategy basically worked as a means of persuasion. Cutting funding for medical research (77% oppose) is less popular than ending birthright citizenship (67% oppose).

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments