Background: I'm the local expert on (academic) narrative CVs and have prepared dozens of people to write them. I have been realizing that this genre ought to prompt (or forces) a rethink of training culture. One change involves how you track what you do.

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

Holy shit

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

This. There is no longer any excuse for vaporware. …but this dovetails in an interesting way with the idea a grant has to be half completed in order to get funded.

Preprint your manuscripts folks. Way more impactful to cite a preprint (that the reviewer can look at if they so choose) than to say "manuscript submitted."

Hey book readers, @bookshop.org always has really good ebook deals. A fave on sale now for $3.99: The Housekeeper & the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, transl by Stephen Snyder. Also bangers on sale from A Leckie, NK Jemisin, A Tchaikovsky, MR Kowal, T Due, Scalzi, many others! bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

One thing I've always tried to make clear to other journalists is that I reserve my criticisms of legacy media's trans coverage for times when their coverage falls far short of the basic professional standards in our industry.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

We can't really say this enough... > Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate. www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...

Read through the quoted posts to read the essay and the TAs comments. This does not bode well for academia and is further evidence that professors are being attacked for doing their jobs, in this case requiring empirical evidence in an essay.

Normal and great 🫩 > Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private. www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors. $33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.

An ongoing concern of mine is not that GenAI will replace teachers but the technology will - as described in the article - deskill teachers "under the banner of efficiency" while also providing those in power with means to deprofessionalize teachers too.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen Talking Heads PDQ Bach Warren Zevon Patty Smith (finally) Bruce Cockburn

I have now seen both Bruce Springsteen and Patty Smith sing Because the Night live. Tonight I watched Patty Smith from the audience in The Anthem in DC, a fantastic venue. Springsteen was 40ish years ago and I was in the lighting truss above the stage in a spotlight seat. They both hit.

Waiting for Patty Smith.

The goal is to mimic the natural features of the shorelines — enough to attract some sea creatures to make the wall their new home. So far, it's working.

My first ever uncracked cheesecake! The VRBO hosts actually bought the pan and mixer for me. Exploring how to do Thanksgiving in a relatively minimal kitchen

Left “the house” on a dock in Savannah to go to DC for the holiday

Searching for patterns is not AI, it's machine learning. And no, they're not the same thing. spectrum.ieee.org/stop-calling...

You know those labs that keep harming students, again and again? Some reflections on why it's so hard to stop this from happening and where our responsibilities lie. scienceforeveryone.science/bad-mentors-... 🧪

some written or unwritten, universal, undisputed law

Anybody remember the Cell parody? Found this as I looked through stuff in storage.

Brenda Milner showed the world that memory isn’t one thing — the hippocampus supports our life stories, while other circuits let us keep learning skills. Her research on patient H.M. built the foundation of cognitive neuroscience. #WomenInScience #MemoryResearch #NeuroHistory

YESSS this is perfect!

NIH shake-up to grant decision-making draws concerns of political meddling | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

"The growth of AI has been called the “savior” of the gas industry. In Virginia alone, the data center capital of the world, a new state report found that AI demand could add a new 1.5 gigawatt gas plant every two years for 15 consecutive years" @ariellesamuel.bsky.social ---->

My guess is that the NIH Project Narrative, which is published as the Public Health Relevance Statement, will likely carry more weight than it has in the past.

we (@marekmcgann.bsky.social and I) have also written about this www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Large language mistake Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... great read from @benjaminjriley.bsky.social

Things I currently think you should be considering in your proposals. Although this thread will be NIH-centric, my guess is that some of this applies to NSF, etc. Much is synthesized from public information. Much of this is what we've advised all along, just with, um, more emphasis. Here we go:

I was asked about this today, but I think it also matters to take into account the recent change to streamlining, discussing only the top 25-30% of applications.That means scientific review makes the first cut. Short thread of observation/opinion.

Together with Cybertruck and Florida's coastal mansions, AI has now joined the elite ranks of the uninsurable. In the big debate over who is liable when the AI fucks up, the insurance companies boldly take the lead by shouting NOT US, and slamming the door.

Cooperation can serve us really well in these moments.

I was asked about this today, but I think it also matters to take into account the recent change to streamlining, discussing only the top 25-30% of applications.That means scientific review makes the first cut. Short thread of observation/opinion.

Cooperation can serve us really well in these moments.

Posting for no particular reason…. From the Archive: Comparing performance of within-payline and "select pay" pickup NIH grants at NIAID drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/c...

This is concerning. NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES). 1/2

Thread:

A new post on Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies from @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and me: "A Year of Refusal" refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...

DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it

All these tech companies like Meta knew this was a bubble and structured these SPVs to get the equity bump while keeping the risk off the balance sheets. When this scheme eventually implodes, people need to go to prison. We can't have this happen again without consequences.

BREAKING: Federal judge rejects DOJ's effort to subpoena the names and medical records of children who have received gender-affirming medical care from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I keep thinking about the fact that American citizens have been caught up in the fascist Trump dragnet. Considering that Twitter trolls helped propel Trump into power, we can argue that foreigners have helped get US citizens imprisoned by their own government.

cool pincer movement if you truly grasp: AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a quija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out 🧵 1/n

Goodbye NIH SBIR/STTR: “Legislative authority for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs expired on October 1, 2025.” grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

This thread asking for advice on learning a second language as an adult has a TON of recommendations, including strategies and alternative apps to use instead of — or together with — Duolingo. #LanguageLearning #LangSky #Linguistics

Good morning, Tucson. The ATG team is here for a day of team science training.