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"Duplicitous with AI" is such an inadvertently perfect phrase.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Omg. Just listen to this kid.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Hold on to the good things, like tonight's Jason Isbell show are Ithaca's State Theater.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Hold on to the food things, like tonight's Jason Isbell show in Ithaca.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Sigh. Why didn't they name the file "FINAL-FINAL.xlsx"?

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Delighted to announce that I'm running a Tensegrity Robotics Workshop at @ieeeras.bsky.social #RoboSoft2025 in Lausanne, Switzerland in April: tensegrity-robotics.github.io/workshop

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

submitted 21 days ago • 941 comments

My dept was awarded a 6-year Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) grant in 2023. My chair just got word that it will be terminated in a month.

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

HHMI is a private organization and.. 🙃

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

What’s next, HHMI? You guys going to pull the Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program? @hhmi.bsky.social

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

No more HHMI grants for inclusive excellence in STEM, and in-progress work has been terminated. Another capitulation to the segregationists.

submitted 22 days ago • 9 comments

HHMI just cancelled our grant. We were in the second year of developing programs to retain students from all backgrounds in STEM. All that work, all that energy…..I am profoundly disappointed. Well-funded HHMI labs, what do you think of dismantling funding for these training programs?

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Are you an HHMI-funded researcher affected by the cancellation today of IC3 (Inclusive Excellence 3)? Find me at [email protected] or on Signal: meredithwadman.13

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives

submitted 22 days ago • 40 comments

If anyone has the resources to resist, its HHMI. Ending this program with no notice and literally scrubbing evidence it ever existed from the website is shocking and dosappointing

submitted 23 days ago • 16 comments

Extremely disappointed to see HHMI decide to kill their Inclusive Excellence program, including terminating the current IE3 awards to over a hundred institutions effective this year in the middle of a 6-year grant. I was hoping HHMI (and other private funders) would continue to lead the way.

submitted 23 days ago • 18 comments

My prediction is that Elmo will be Tritsky'ed within 4 months.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Counting down the days until the entire Federal Government is ransom-wared.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Not great news for someone who studies Quality Diversity Algorithms.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Geez Nature, can't you de-paywall this one article? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking of starting a poutine smuggling ring. HMU if interested.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Scientists -- I'm looking to talk to researchers about how all this uncertainty around paused grant reviews and a potentially massive freeze on federal funding is affecting you and your research plans. DM, email or reach out on signal.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

Yuck. How long has Nature been pushing this AI generated content? www.nature.com/research-int...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Digital assistant fun: "hey Siri, play TV on the Radio on Apple Music"

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

We won't have fully self driving taxis until they have the autonomy of a Roman taxi driver.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Today in columns you thought were written by a bicycle commuter but, in fact, were not. Still a lovely piece. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Remember if you start listening to "The Ice of Boston" by The Dismemberment Plan at 11:57:52 tonight then you get to hear Travis Morrison yell "I'm fine Mom, How's Washington?" at the stroke of midnight. For best results you will have poured a third bottle of bubbly over your head first.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Just fyi, there’s someone impersonating me here. Their handle is @astrokatieecom.bsky.social ; please report them for impersonation!

submitted 79 days ago • 111 comments