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This is a good thread. NIH, NSF, etc. get their funding and priorities from Congress. That is inherently political. In the best version, those priorities are things the public wants - like "less cancer" - and scientists use their expertise to achieve them. These regulations will end that

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ManyLabs but make it Labradors

Goodbye MRIs

Merge two movies: Point Breakin' 2: Electric Boogie Board

If you were icked when Rogue made beer with yeast from the brewmaster’s beard…

The R scaling law: As the amount of time you spend reading old documentation gets longer, the number of lines of code you need to solve your weird problem approaches 1

If I swipe my ORCA card can I make them drive me to the next station?

Model comparison aka AICmogging

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And even if they weren't, US spending on academic R&D is more than 3x as much as the second-highest spender. The entire EU combined only spends ~25% more than the US despite having more than double the population. Nobody's swooping in to pick up the tab ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb2023...

I should not have to know this much about any man from Maine

Ho lee shit (TIL)

Soccer team can’t score? Nil issue

Love it when voters overwhelmingly approve things and they never happen

Do you think Argentina’s like “come on guys not this shit again”?

ja fragt euch mal

I can't believe they did this for real youtu.be/jAdG-iTilWU

Once upon a time I'd've assumed the "Bikes Will Not Replace Us" guy was a plant, but it's 2026, so

Many people think they know what drowning looks like. But if you have not learned from some authoritative source (like this article) what drowning looks like -- then you do not know what drowning looks like

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

I regret to inform you that this website is having one of the zombie discourses again

You can really see Mamdani's sauce in the transition through "it's a good quote"

My first programming experience was on an IBM-compatible 8086 PC clone that if you booted without DOS in the floppy drive would go into a BASIC interpreter. And if you understood any of those words, congratulations, you’re old

What cherrypicked correlation would you try to pass off as causal if your goal was to get maximum Bluesky engagement? This one's pretty good but I bet you can do better www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

This is engagement catnip (complimentary)

(me pulling a ticket stub from an outing 2 weeks ago out of my coat pocket and looking at the recycling bin) But what if I start a scrapbook

slightly increase a band The Rolling Small Boulder the Size of a Large Boulder

Nominations are open for the definitive Gen X song, here’s my first submission

Sunbeams breaking through clouds over the Puget Sound

Classical economics: 98% of the data is easily explained by one theory Behavioral economics: 2% of the data is easily explained by sixteen theories

all my friends in higher education love to complain about having to use the awful grading software, but now that someone's doing something about it you're just complaining about NOT being able to use it? some people are never happy

Polygraphs are not valid so this is just gonna be stochastic firing

Celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day a little early this year @briannosek.bsky.social? #rrrrrrr

Boosting for visibility. From down the thread: "If you know someone who has expertise in this area and can help me figure out the academic consensus on trauma biology and treatment, let me know!"

Reminder isfourseasonstotallandscapingstillfunny.com

Confetti at Randy Johnson Number Retirement Unveiling Just Feathers: tinyurl.com/244keymh

Saint Anthony Preaches to the Fish, Girolamo Tessari, 16th c, 📸 by @lindseywasson

The plural of RBI should be RsBI

My "is a cognitive test an IQ test" cognitive test question has people asking a lot of questions that are in the answer key of my cognitive test

Jerry / Jamelle / Derek

R, python, Tableau

San Francisco/Oakland/Marin

YOU: There are no large effect sizes in behavioral science ME:

Opening Bluesky before my morning coffee

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.