NBC story on NIH Institute Director vacancies... www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... It is bad enough that national news networks (well, not CBS) are covering this story,,,

As always, the most courageous in the room are young people so thank you to student journalists at Columbia for being the only outlet to cover Greene’s self-made fall from grace. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/02...

I guess this one? If so, and if you know them. you might email and suggest defending the Epstein class is not OK

Great contribution!! 🙏

Yes! What if we treated extremely normal human variation as something other than a "disorder"??? www.positive.news/society/yout...

Breakfast: Mallorcas. Ham, egg, and Swiss cheese.

NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11

My weekly update on NIH funding. This is for all projects. The breakdown for competing and non-competing awards will follow. 1/4

Ahead of today's hearing with NIH Director Bhattacharya, @sanders.senate.gov released a report on cuts to critical healthcare research. New NIH awards in key health areas were down 16% last year, cutting off innovation for new cures. Read the whole report: www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

The full quote in a year+ where NIH has removed experts and terminated grants that impact research & clinical care, i.e., the buck does not stop with Bhattacharya: "I do not believe patients' care was disrupted. If there were disruptions, it's the responsibility of the researchers, not the NIH".

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NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

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Important to have hobbies …

Huh?

A number of our students got the following comment back on a rejection for the NSF GFRP. They are in an eligible STEM field. Is this something people in other places are getting too? Is it a quirk or targeted?

This happened 40 years ago today.

The public health disaster in the US continues unabated. Data not collected is permanently lost. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Oddly specific hallucinations: www.bbc.com/future/artic...

No pun intended, but this was written to baptize the audience into C.

🚨- New Preprint from Serghei Mangul and colleagues: Leveraging a hybrid cross-disciplinary training model to accelerate global bioinformatics capacity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

GPS was a team goal. JHU/APL played midfield, shaping the physics and the field. And the one and only, Gladys West was the playmaker: her mathematics delivered the assist that made the goal possible. Science isn’t a solo act, it’s the result of every outstanding, independent participation.

Afternoon snack: homemade, naturally leavened Pandoro and latte.

Dinner: 红烧肉。(Red braised pork belly)

Did you see this?? open.substack.com/pub/cell/p/p...

Instead of, whatever this is, why can’t we be watching a three-hour documentary on Parafilm?

We're delighted to welcome 5 newly-certified Lesson Developer Trainers to join a group teaching Collaborative Lesson Development Training (CLDT)! They are Thomas Cason @esallychang.bsky.social Johan Hidding @nathanielporter.bsky.social and @jannettas.bsky.social! 👉 carpentries.org/blog/2026/01...

I have been modeling the impact of multi-year funding. Based on fairly reasonable assumptions, 50% multi-year funding, the number of new and competing awards is anticipated to drop to approximately 6000 compared to 10,000 had there been no multi-year funding above the historical background rate.

ALERT: Congress may flat-fund science, but Vought, Bhattacharya, Memoli & RFK still have a bag of dirty tricks: impoundment, multi-year funding, termination of programs, appointment of cronies to leadership, changes in scientific review to ratfuck research in America. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...

Sicilian Bronte pistachio panettone.

Dinner: Kan kan pork chop. Dessert: Coconut flan.

Breakfast: Naturally leavened panettone. A new personal best for flavor, texture, and lightness.

Pretty cool www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sleep well my children …

Joining a research project mid-cycle like:

I’ve been wondering for the last year when we’d get to the library destruction phase and here we are. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

This year on Bluesky I wrote 200 posts and 683 replies. I received 3,118 likes, whereas 223 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "not" and 🤣! www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

I’ve known very few geniuses, and maybe a few folks at their moment of genius. This choice triggers me as genuinely signifying someone who spent at least a little time at the limit of what’s possible for a human mind.

This settlement is the best case scenario for these applications at this point. Pushing back matters but real damage still done by illegal actions by the current NIH leadership. Thanks to everyone who helped make this settlement happen!

a neat (and scary) survey into AI "companions" and kids www.aura.com/reports/stat... "nearly half of the time kids and teens use AI, it is for companionship, and when they do, the themes of discussion are primarily sexual, romantic, and violent."

That’s a wrap on 2025 flights.

I'm just grateful to be alive at the same time as these Berliners.

这只猫以肥肉和猪油面包为主食。

Picard honesty tip: Don't let anyone else tell you how many lights you see.

Love the plane-side Porsche pickup @Delta #DeltaAirLines #SkyMiles #DiamondMedallion #MillionMiler

Good! An early insight of human centered design is that it was possible to reduce airplane crashes by introducing tactile switches and toggle that did not create confusion or require people to take their eyes away from their core tasks donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-origin...

More on the continuing purges at #NIH. Now 13 out of 27 institute directors have been gotten rid of. This is not normal. @jonathanwosen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/n...

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential