zealws.bsky.social
Biology student, software engineer, math and science nerd. He/him
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I have nothing but respect for the NIH at this point. It's really disappointing to see it become so villainized within political discourse.
I don't blame the victims of the politicized shift in funding for my own misfortunes with applications.
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Windle Poons turned around, observing the vaguely human-shaped hole in the wall of the heavily guarded gold vault. It was believed that no living person could carry more than a few gold bars due to their weight. Unfortunately for the US Treasury, Poons used a different definition of "living."
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Chart source on the CDC's measles data page. Also has a table with estimates for each state.
www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
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Finally, an executive order we can all get behind!
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What was the previous indirect cost rate?
Was it capped by the NIH/NSF previously?
Is there info about the indirect cost rate at various universities or other institutions?
Sorry if those are dumb questions. I'm trying to understand the context surrounding the decision, but not my area of expertise
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I'm still dedicated to the long term goal, but it's made it much harder to weigh the risks/benefits. I'm trying to find work in research in the meantime, so I'd be in a better position to apply next year, but even that looks more risky than it did last year.
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Whoa, I drive on Livingston Ave (I live in Franklin co, Ohio) every single day. Nice to know where the name came from!
Thanks for the history, that's really interesting! ☺️
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We must have traded it to Canada so we could make Poutine a national dish. Probably a better agenda than whatever the federal government is doing at the moment.
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If you could embed a stick figure in the water, you might be able to watch it get stretched apart as it crosses the boundary. I don't know the best way of embedding a figure in water. Maybe sharpie that's been detached from the surface? Or grains of pepper?
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Analogs to Black Holes that have event horizons can be created with fluids like water.
This lets physicists test a lot of the effects of event horizons on observation and propagation of events. E.g.
wavelab.spaces.wooster.edu/research/bla...
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As a native English speaker I didn't even know this was a rule, it was completely intuitive, until a friend who learned English as a second language explained it to me.
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Kinda the inverse of what you're asking, but an aspect of English that native speakers aren't usually taught but non-natives have to be taught explicitly is adjective ordering.
The "big red house" vs "the red big house".
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For a moment I thought "Someone You Can Build a Nest In" was a cleverly named pop-sci book about parasites.
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The modern photos of the sculpture garden have the same pedestals (sculptures have changed) and the bridge over the water matches too.
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It looks like the sculpture garden at MoMA.
maps.app.goo.gl/qccVcJAKqk3B...
The building in the background is probably the Grace Rainey Rogers Annex which was demolished in '78.
www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/museum-...
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"systemic" as in "the system is racist".
Police and local authorities participated in the riot. There was even a coordinated aerial bombing of the black neighborhood. The powers that should have acted to prevent, dissuade and then enact justice upon the rioters were themselves the rioters.
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I'd like that data to be normalized to the volume of posts in each language. It could be that 90% of the misinfo was in English and the moderation was equitable. I don't think that's the case at all, but it'd be nice to rule that out. Not likely to know for sure since the data was leaked, though.
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I read Transformer after Nick Lane's interview, and recently bought a copy of @chrisadami.bsky.social's The Evolution of Biological Information which I hope to read soon. I also read The Big Picture because of your podcast/science outreach. 🙂
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Is the main difference between electron microscopy and tomography the rotation of the subject? Is there something else going on?
I understand how the rotation used in tomography allows you to build a 3d model, just trying to understand the specifics for cryo-ET. Thanks!
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I just donated to help ensure that everyone can keep access to Wikipedia, and I hope others do the same!
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With a sufficiently strong and well targeted gift cannon, he wouldn't need to exit the water for half the world's population.
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Where's the petition for Santa to switch to domesticated penguins to pull his sleigh?
40% of the world's population lives within 100km of a coast line, and with river access I'd bet that number exceeds 50%.
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Later he corrected his birthday to a more accurate day in January 1920. In September 1945, he was drafted. If he had used the birthday his mother had originally used, he would have been 26 and not eligible for the draft. He wound up not serving for other reasons.
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Fun fact: Isaac Asimov was born in 1919-1920 during the Russian Revolution which was also the Julian/Gregorian switch in Russia so he didn't know his exact birthdate. His mother said he was born in September 1919 so she could get him into school early.
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Congress: we don't do criminal justice, that's the judiciary's job.
Judiciary: we don't touch politicians, that's the legislature's job.
They're both contriving to hide any consequences in some legal/political gray area that's neither of their responsibilities.
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For a bunch of tech investors to be all-in on carbon capture, it really seems like green washing.
Certainly it's not zero-sum though. I'm in favor of pushing the carbon-capture tech, but not if it's a distraction from better avenues.