These openscience.nl grants are wonderful. Lavaan is a stand out in quality and impact. Open software supports so much research in academia and industry, but exists in some unincentivized gray zone. At the same time, so much software is poorly documented and tested. Fix with recognition and support

My Name Is Gregor Samsa, and This Time I Woke Up as a Grad Student at Cal State San Bernardino www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-...

Thinking of that time when my dad, himself a doctor, was thrown by a horse on a trail ride. Punctured his spleen, internal bleeding, got him to an ER just in time. He lived another 20 years. With two hours delay, probably wouldn't have. We rushed to *nearest* ER. Not comparison-shop for ER prices.

This is freaking incredible

Sol Lewitt + Caroline Shaw would like a word...

society would improve immediately if we just seized the assets of every person who wrote jeffrey epstein a birthday note

I wrote about how Earth's wobble causes our view of the skies to shift over time. Here's a paywall-free gift link. With @fparis.bsky.social and @iamrumz.bsky.social

Want to do a PhD with me and the Emotions in Context Lab? We’re looking for new grad students to join us next fall! Check out the lab website to learn what we’re working on now and in the near future: www.emotionsincontextlab.com/join/

Just learned that the entire division of blood disorders at the CDC was put on administrative leave or terminated effective immediately. The people who figured out HIV was infecting people through the blood supply. What could possibly go wrong?

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Elon Musk's favorite supposed data expert, who he's retweeted at least a dozen times, claims she can only process 60,000 rows of data before her "hard drive overheats"

The Association for Research in Personality is soliciting abstracts for the 2025 Biennial Meeting scheduled to take place June 26-28, 2025 in Evanston (suburb of Chicago), IL, USA!

Saw this news just after doing a post on Trump/Musk disastrous war on NOAA and NWS. fallows.substack.com/p/killing-pe...

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

*Hmm, no wonder those A16Z "technical briefing papers" sounded ever more surreal, Martian and Trumpian *Who needs the tech when you've got the coup #oligarchy www.citationneeded.news/issue-77/

Another link in the accident chain that will lead to the next airline crashes. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/c...

Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨 It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax. This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types. Check it out! grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal theonion.com/think-t...

Dune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues

Huge 0.468 GW solar PV farm opens in Texas Orsted also donates 953 acres of nearby grassland to the Nature Conservancy electrek.co/2024/11/22/o...

Do personality traits co-develop in family contexts? The short answer is a) not reliably for parents and children, but b) yes for parents and their spouses. I'm excited to share the pre-print of my first first-author paper with many more details: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Infinite Growth Forever: global-tetrahedron.com