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Hey just a reminder to faculty that it's always good to keep a spare tool set in the office, you never know what kind of small repairs you need to do on your own and a little tool set like this one from Home Depot can really be helpful!

It’s time for the Milk Hotel to choose a side

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-p...

The state of things

Apart from everything else, this is just a masterful book cover design

It’s official. My university who told me for all of the years I have been a faculty person they it valued diversity all of a sudden decided it no longer does without even attempting to resist a legally questionable executive order. www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Today in a meeting instead of saying "dating apps are losing users" I accidentally said "dating apps are using losers" and you know what, both are true

From reddit: a letter from a postdoc who survived the Bolsonaro years. This is helpful framing for how to science in this administration. 🧪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/s/...

saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu

Here's one: Have you no shame?

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

my research funding is gone, my paycheck has dried up, and i've had to resort to to cannibalising my newborn child to fend off starvation, but i am still thankful to Elon Musk. he has given me selection pressure, which will let me evolve super intelligence and strength

Brian Wansink's whole gig getting blown up by him admitting to p-hacking in a smug blog post is just an all time great self-own. Well worth reading about if you don't know the story. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/step...

For sale, arc of universe, never bent

I note that “eugenics”, “IQ”, and “master race” are still safe

No thoughts just codex rotundus

Me in 2022: Well, he's South African so at least he can never be president Me in 2025:

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

i feel like there's been a miscommunication. i voted for Trump to cut the government funding for useless research, but instead he cut my research

Small business idea: chocolate shop called “eat, praline, love”

Love to be entering a new Dark Ages

My “there is no theory crisis in psychological science” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

Cheating on an exam by memorizing everything the professor taught in advance so I can easily answer all the questions

Centre Jeanne Hachette, Ivry sur Seine, France (next to Paris) r/brutalism

David Hume (1748)

They mispredicted how bent his elbow would be

(elon unveiling his new martian flag design) well as you uh can, you know, see. there's red which of course uh is the mars color. duh ha ha. and then here a white circle, and this is um representing the bright future for the ahh, human race. and then uh you have so, this is a hindu symbol,

Combatting stress by just staring at this photo for the next 24 hours

Finally, the NYT is publishing op-eds with respectable research www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...

A perfect comic panel.

since moving to france i have thought about this sight gag at least once a day

Happy New Year from Dorothy Parker (and me).

Buying this jacket so I can foil big city pickpockets

conference season is upon us

MISSED CONNECTION: I was the guy who posed nude for your class. You were the math professor who called campus security

at first they came for the children, and I said nothing. then they came for the CEOs, and I was like “holy fuck I need to write about this for the atlantic"

Sweet business school swag

Some news: I’m writing a book. My book deal was announced in Publishers Marketplace today as one of their featured deals! Excited to have a catch-all excuse for not doing stuff for the next ~18 months