just unbelievable ugliness, from a character who stumbled into the frame once and only once why anyone listened is beyond me

Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

I am fully in support of evil people getting completely dragged on the day of their death and let it be a lesson to the current cohort as to how they will be remembered.

This was my experience at CSHL. Made my skin crawl as grad student being ogled by a "Nobel laureate"

Still incredibly disappointing that Canada can look at the consequences of aid cuts by other countries earlier this year, and then not only put out a budget that slashes $2.7 billion from international assistance, but put that $2.7 billion in a column labelled "savings".

I never met Watson. But he gave a public seminar at my undergrad. Don't remember the talk but do remember the incredibly disturbing and degrading misogynistic comments he made at the female biology majors given the honor to meet him. A real piece of shit! World class.

A more inside baseball stupid legacy of Watson's is valorizing "the race" to get a scientific result. He loved this, couldn't shut up about it in speech or prose.

the story of this shutdown is that Trump and the Republicans have played the politics significantly worse than Chuck Schumer and folks that's a genuine accomplishment

The goddamn nerve of Jeff Bezos' newspaper to talk shit about raising the minimum wage at a moment when workers at Jeff Bezos' online superstore -- who are paid so little half of them in one study were on SNAP benefits -- are going hungry. The fucking arrogance.

"He wasn't always racist. He had good qualities." So what? Someone was going to figure out the structure of DNA, probably within a year. Most of those people weren't going to spend the second 50 years of their lives giving false legitimacy to bigots and creeping out everyone they met.

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

It's irritating that they describe the effects of his racism as limited to causing controversy within science and reputational consequences for himself rather than giving an immeasurable boost, false veneer of legitimacy, and idiot-friendly prestige to modern scientific racism and eugenics.

The reaction to this is fascinating. It's like a microcosm of all discussions around AI: lots of enthusiasm, lots of loathing (much of it reflexive), and some wise 'let's maybe try it and see' responses.

It was clear from testimony in AAUP v. Rubio that some very senior government officials have no idea at all what the First Amendment means. We're seeing that again here. These officials have an obligation to uphold constitutional rights but they don't know what the constitution says or means.

There are people who are never mentioned except in the context of their crimes against humanity. Musk will be one someday, but it should be today. Every article about SpaceX, Neuralink, Twitter that isn't really about why a mass murderer is in this position in our society is a failure.

Notably, none of the half a million dead profited him in any way. This wasn't a "my aggressive business move killed people but it was good business". This was just a "I'm rich and powerful now, let me go kill a bunch of poor brown people because no one will stop me."

Which one is more English?

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

There will be much said about Nancy Pelosi, the greatest Speaker in modern history (& yes, imperfect otherwise). For now, I'll simply note that, along with passing the ACA, she (& Biden) spent the last 4 years passing some of the most progressive legislation in 🇺🇸 history, with threadbare majorities.

The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

It's a real testament to the strength of her catalog that I would assemble a very different list, yet I can't fault this piece for any of the choices it makes.

The 🇨🇦 Standing Committee on Science and Research passed a modified resolution this afternoon that the requested ricouncil applicant and reviewer data can be aggregated and anonymized. Thanks to the many researchers who signed letters pointing out legitimate data privacy concerns. 👏👏

Thanks to the journalists who brought attention to this important issue--even during Budget Week--Hannah Alberga (I think not on here) and @picardonhealth.bsky.social!

The mobilization of the research community by Gaynor Watson-Creed and others has been successful, and Parliament has withdrawn its abusive data request. Via @widowweb.bsky.social on www.linkedin.com/posts/maydia...

Ellis attacks the characterization of rapid responders as "agitators": "Describing rapid response networks - neighborhood moms - as professional agitators shows just how out of touch these agents are," Ellis says.

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."

Not to replace substance with message but I genuinely do not think that the GOP establishment is prepared, nor capable, of regulating itself in a world where all high profile democrats are directly staring into a camera and telling Trump to go fuck himself.

Another example of "more than exemplary" use of force by a CBP agent in Chicago: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

In case you were wondering who is and who isn't expected to "sacrifice" in this economy.

Director Bhattacharya "Let's fund emerging investigators" Yeah, who's the idiot running NIH who allowed 15% or few fewer early stage investigators be funded in FY2025 compared to FY2024? (Estimate: The official numbers are not yet available (at least publicly)

Add child kidnaspping to the ICE Nuremburg file.

Trying to get a diagnosis for a rare disease can be incredibly hard & take years. Sometimes the only hope is in the research. Imagine what it must be like to read that your disease isn't worth funding because it doesn't affect enough people!

Dear CIHR Reviewers, pls keep in mind that knowledge users on grants see the reviews. If you tell us a protein/gene is not interesting/less important because it's rare, it reads as those patients aren't important.

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Going to time travel to 2003 and show this to people

I would love to know what university leaders say to politicians behind closed doors, because "asbestos is falling on our students' heads and we can't afford to change lightbulbs" doesn't seem to be what they are hearing.

“Canada is the best place to live, and top talent from around the world want to come here because they see opportunities and possibilities to contribute to cutting-edge research”... ...he says while allocating $1.7B to bribe people to move here and cutting grant funding. Unbelievable.

"To the mouse & any smaller animal gravity presents practically no dangers. You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft & on arriving at the bottom it gets a slight shock & walks away. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes." - JBS Haldane.

That's also a pretty good decription of the Public Intellectual [derogatory] career of their star witness, Steven Pinker.

“It looks like the committee is looking to prove something that they already believe, rather than look objectively at the data to see what it does say,” Watson-Creed said. Boy does it. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit

This night 2 setlist is amazing. It's gonna be 2(?) straight months of FOMO.

and there it is. the absolutely massive change in R01s funded multi-year. our perceptions that the new mandate, sorry strong suggestion, has had a dramatic effect on forward funding and therefore success rates is validated.

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

Hey @andpru.bsky.social how'd you get them to let you do this photo without a lab coat??