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I work in Higher Ed. History PhD; MSLS. Ex-librarylander/resrch admin; you get the idea. I post about baseball, birding, cats, & etc.
l still have hope despite everything & am endeavoring to be kind. Opinions strictly my own; she/her/hers. KY
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I am up to 44! I count by whether I've spent the night somewhere or not. By that measure, I'm still missing AZ/DE/HI/NV/NJ/RI. If you count by have I set foot there- not counting airports- I'd also get DE and RI.
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I have the same problem!
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I'll play. When did the iconic gold stemware start traveling to the parents' houses? I remember it's been on the tropical getaways, but I don't remember it traveling to parents' places before.
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Aw man, I'm sorry. I hope everyone feels better soon. I had to travel to my hometown last weekend for a funeral, and brought back some kind of viral crud or flu. (ours seems to be a 4 day thing).
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I am waiting for them to say "lutefisk."
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Remember, you personally might save a little time now on a task with chatgpt, but that time doesn't just vanish. It gets kicked down the road, often increasing in load, either to someone else who is already underpaid and overworked or back to you.
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I am so so sorry and sending hope that you'll be able to relocate safely.
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Russell Coleman apparently didn't feel like joining the suit so UK, U of L, etc are still screwed on this issue.
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I feel pretty sure I have entered fully into my Mrs Jennings era.
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Dollars to doughnuts that UAB and UAH are getting subawards from blue state unis, right? I can't think that you could excuse red state unis' subawards from the indirect cuts applied to blue state prime awards.
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And it looks like approximately $220 million of this is in my congressional district (and almost exclusively via UK).
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I did just get myself a big glass of water; I'm ready.
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I implore you to go to NIH Reporter, look up your state to see how much funding your congressional district gets, and call your representatives. Tell them that the 15% indirect cost rate will substantially reduce this amount and will have other, massive adverse impacts. reporter.nih.gov
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they owe you not the other way around time.com/4089171/mari...
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Especially w NIH, I can only imagine how important it is to be accurate and careful when handling health data. Mistakes will get made, researchers and universities pilloried for them because they don't have the people to do the work well, and it will be used as an excuse to further attack higher ed
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This will gut even the ability to submit grants or charge expenses. Every office of sponsored projects seems understaffed and this will only make it worse. Data analysts, support staff, facilities, reporting and accounting.
And you know what? That means mistakes will be made.
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At my former R1 employer, IIRC, most of the funding for research support staff came through the F&A collected on grants. So: the grant office, the IRB office, the IACUC office, the Proposal Development office, etc. As others have said, just about every facilities cost has F&A baked into it too.
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They sent us flowers too after beloved former kitty left us. I spend a fair amount at a local pet store too, but Chewy has a good chunk of our business for life also.
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It feels like a lot of people are thinking about their nice little lives at the moment, if they're even paying attention. I'm not being very eloquent here, but I can't get this scene out of my head (3/fin)
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Spoiler space part deux:
Even though they live in the collapsing Soviet Union, they have a comfortable flat and a cute kid, and a nice little life. Oleg goes back into danger and tells his wife: "What life will he have if people like me just stand by?" (2)
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I may have to do a trip for family stuff later this spring - and yeah, same. Normally I'd think about flying -it's about a 10 hour trip by car - but now that 10 hours vs 6 via air is feeling a lot dicier.
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Well, this doesn't make me sad that we just bought an electric Hyundai to replace our beloved Toyota Matrix that a DUI-charged driver totaled.
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A lot of my job involves processing research applications from international graduate students. They'd all prefer if I could get to _their_ thing first, but my hope is that I'm demonstrating in the big picture sense that everyone in this country is not terrible.
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Our co-op seems to have found a local farm that has a greenhouse and they're growing really good fresh strawberries! We're on our 2nd box of 3. Usually we wait until May to get good local berries, so it's an unexpected gift.
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🐇 🐇 🐇
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Happiest of birthdays to your mom, and I particularly like the blue flowers on the cake.
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Violet! I hope you're okay.
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MyChart graphics are MyCharting.
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I made an appointment to get the pneumonia and Hep B vaccines tomorrow at my local big chain drugstore. I think these are the last adult schedule vaccines I didn't already have current. (2 and fin)