The implication that the future of the country is subject to statements in a former president's will (for lack of a better term) thereby superseding the authority of their successor is an escalation that I'm not sure even most kings and emperors dreamed of.

For the benefit of the Americans, could you rescale this to football fields?

This makes me hopeful. Maybe naively so, but hopeful. This sounds like deranged and desperate appeal to the extreme and numerically small base. Let them alienate the middle. We don't need to appease the middle.

"I don't want to tell an 8yo kid they have to sleep on the street because we want people to feel better about their car ... Do you want to tell them that?" "No sir. No I sure don't"

"even without scientific evidence that they work" ... really? I can appreciate, but not respect, not wanting to say "the president who can levy harsh penalties is lying" but have some editorial guts when it comes to (checks notes) straw manufacturers.

Today in "not communism".

From the Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 to this current administration, the defining lesson of the "American experiment" seems to be that people will appease anyone who gives them permission to treat others inhumanely

I had a colleague excitedly say that with LLMs they "work 2x as hard and produce 10x as much" and my brother in christ working harder is just not the sales pitch you think it is.

Reviewing papers for free is miserable and thankless. But sometimes you get to learn about cool new science before other people do. The LLM-ification of text recently is really swinging the balance to the former than the latter.

4th of July at the O’Hare Hilton. Brought to you by Midwest thunderstorms.

South Asia is the best place for breakfast. I’ll die on that hill.

18% of US tax revenue is spent on Defense -- salaries, machines and ordinance that (on average at least) only get used in practice (standing capacity ~85% of budget) for conflict, not conflict itself. Tax $ for US salaries and business ... which sounds like we're already pretty socialist.

This is giving me Red Dawn flashbacks.

I can't believe we're not even halfway through this presidency.

I'm writing a talk and I'm intentionally going old-school white background and plain black text so that you know a LLM didn't write it

I wonder what would happen if I tried this argument in my next NIH grant?

This seems like it deserves a more critical headline.

"It’s challenging to find the two nutrients in a single food, experts say." ... but you can find them both in rare food items like bread ... and beans ... and nuts ...

A thoughtful take on the role of AI (in the broad sense) in the scientific process.

It’s appropriate that this kind of own goal is happening during the World Cup.

JD Vance: "I have seen some progressive criticisms of me saying, 'What experience does the VP have with hostile, high-stakes negotiations?' And I would point out that just two days ago I spent over an hour on The View. Joy Behar is way tougher than the Iranians."

Rasgon Lab Postdocs are FINALLY formally available. Apply here! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

I have a memo that says that if I meet Scarlett Johansson, and she agrees, …

This needs to be entered into evidence in the first legal challenge of social media age restrictions. It is criminal to keep this from children.

I wonder what fraction of global tea production is just accumulating in kitchen shelves.

The timing of the ceasefire deal on Trump's birthday sounds like an awfully expensive coincidence.

The quotes in here are quite the rollercoaster. If you make it to the end, it doesn't disappoint.

Since it is Obama Appreciation Day

I was expecting a lot more America 250 hype at Dulles.

On my way back from the annual meeting in Jakarta of the Measles Analytics Hub. It was truly humbling and invigorating to see the efforts from ministry and WHO country and regional offices from around the world committed measles and rubella elimination. www.measles-analytics.org

9AM in the ANA lounge in Tokyo-Haneda. So I'm only *tasting* the Japanese single malts.

It is worth noting that, in absolute terms, my wealth, your wealth, and Elon Musk's wealth all changed by roughly the same amount yesterday.

About to start 3 days of meetings in Jakarta with measles researchers and national international partner organizations from around the world on the co-creation of modeling and data analytic products to support measles control and elimination. Modeled after this journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Breakfast view in Jakarta. Here for Measles Analytics Hub annual meeting, not the food … the food is just a completely coincidental benefit.

@ciddpsu.bsky.social grad student Christina Harden representing at @eeid2026.bsky.social

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Just a thought. But maybe, just maybe, the Democratic Party could buy a ton of ad time on the same networks that market Omega XL, Inogen, and Lifelock to seniors and just run pictures of the desecration of the White House lawn over, and over, and over.

Karen can't handle it when someone from boarding group 3 gets in line before boarding group 2 is checked in. But sure, divert her flight from Newark to Columbus ... that'll go swimmingly.

History will record the revolutionary stance taken by Milli Vanilli as a turning point.

My local bagel guy said to me today "Isn't that RFK guy super into vaccines?". Needless to say, I did not get out of the bagel store quickly.

The new Ferrari Luce could go down in auto history as trailblazing in two areas: 1. ending the dangerous run of touchscreens in cars and setting the aesthetic and UI standard for tactile controls of flat screen displays 2. defining automotive beauty from the perspective of the driver, not the curb

I have a figure on my screen that I've been waiting 15 years to make. I really hope I get to show everybody.

It's a minor point, but to the extent that redistricting is ever allowed, it should be required to be completed in the calendar year preceding the election. Without setting a timescale parties could initiate right before an election creating a legal fight and uncertainty that will lower turnout.

This functionally gives HHS, and thereby the President, blanket authority to prevent any immigration from any country that has any pathogen we don't like.

I've given talks about surveillance & outbreak response for years predicated premise that the fire department spends 90% of its time NOT putting out fires. They direct traffic & wash their trucks. And we pay them to do it so that they will be there to respond quickly when the f__king fire happens.

I'm always struck that being mean requires almost no thought or creativity. It's just a trivial competition to out-do the last mean thing. It's infantile, but incremental, and we are all the frog in the pot of gradually heating water.

When I do a pretty conservative accounting, over 10 years, I have brought in $2.8 in grant dollars for every $1 in salary plus benefits that I have received (75% appointment). Nobody could do science at these losses.

The first rule of Silicon Valley is "if you find yourself in a hole, dig faster"

If you think this is bad, wait til we lose a war to Cuba.

For some context on the diagnostic situation in DRC, a lovely piece by @allisonmartell.bsky.social from 2021 on the challenges with the GeneXpert platform during COVID. DRC has the machines & experts to run them. But they are kits, like Keurig, and "pods" don't exist for rare things like Bundibugyo.