Modular grant level was set nearly 30 years ago, in 1998. A single modular R01 cannot support a research lab with mammal models, the LARC expenses alone will deplete the budget.

BWJones@bwjones.bsky.social · 4h ago

I don't think anyone has any idea of how thin the margins are in science. To have funding agencies or private foundations come back on a proposal and ask you to cut 10-20%, or more from a project simply means the work cannot be done. Modular grants have not been adjusted for inflation in >20yrs.

How to do it:

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h ago

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The thing about Odyssey discourse is that we allowed the professors to break containment. The whole purpose of the university system was to find a humane way to segregate them from mainstream society.

i am shocked - shocked! - to find blatant clickbait in The Verge

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

And shame on @aau.edu for assisting the administration in the crafting of this letter. It is craven, complicit, and cowardly. 2/

Time to add another formerly respected institution to the garbage pile, this time @aau.edu, which just worked with the Trump admin to endorse resegregation in high education, embedding MAGA fraudsters as faculty, and banning student expression. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

And Kavanaugh swore that Roe v Wade is settled law. They say what they need to say to get confirmed.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d ago

BREAKING: Todd Blanche just issued a formal order that appears to terminate Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund and limit the scope of the IRS audit immunity deal applying to Trump and his family.

I'm a full Professor of Immunology and fully vaccinated. I didn't get vaccinated out of obedience, but after decades of studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Calling that "lack of critical thinking" is not an argument. It's ideology masked as pretend intellect.

Moment Of Silence Followed By Hot Dog Race

Reminder: there is no bottom.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK told Dana Bash that Lyme disease “almost certainly” came from gain of function research. Which is utterly false. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

This fucking guy.

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It’s becoming an increasingly unavoidable conclusion that a portion of mostly establishment Democrat electeds/pundits/consultants don’t like Democratic voters much and would much prefer to have Republican voters instead, and view their voters’ insistence on being represented as an annoying betrayal.

What about gas station suppositories? Is that a thing?...or not yet?

EU folks interested in political stability and sovereignty are going to have to block US social media and media companies, because they are how the United States and other fascist nations wage hybrid warfare.

So basically an adversary could attack any blue state and Trump wont care because he doesn't see himself as the President of the "United States" Without a doubt the most worst president we've ever had. Anti-republic, anti-democratic, anti-constitutional just devoid of basic dignity

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."

Every left of center person needs to internalize the fact that most legacy outlets are now captured by fascist billionaires. These institutions are coasting off their previous goodwill and will reporting. But they are now propaganda outlets whose primary goal is to aid the Republican Party.

A young left-leaning Democrat from the Midwest with a Muslim-sounding middle name wins a surprise Senate primary and talks about universal health care and opposing "a dumb war?" That can never happen.

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He’s got the look of a TSA beagle who just hit on something foul.

If you’re not an expert and your uninformed personal opinion disagrees with expert consensus on a technical topic: Please consider that “the experts who’ve spent years studying this know something I don’t” is far more likely than “I alone discovered something that all the world’s experts missed.”

Josh Hawley self-owned in his questioning and then doubled down.

The focus on Fauci was always designed to help the GOP and Trump avoid taking the blame from the human and economic impacts of the pandemic. Blame China. Blame the scientists. Blame anyone but the President of the U.S.

there's 5 main reasons they want you to think AI is now self-aware and "goes rogue" 1. product marketing misrepresentation 2. props up insane valuations for a sector not making money 3. scares lawmakers into trash legislation 4. distracts from technofascism 5. distances execs from accountability

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Happy 86th, Bugs Bunny! 🥕 He made his first official appearance in Tex Avery's A WILD HARE, released on this date in 1940. #FilmSky #LooneyTunes #BugsBunny

In days of yore, the bears of Yosemite, Vogelsang, would climb above the branches where hikers hung their food. From there, some 20-25 ft above the ground, the bears jumped towards the bag, grasping it on the way down.

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · last wk.

It is my firmly held belief that if humans didn’t think pandas were adorable they’d long ago have gone extinct.

Worth remembering that Talarico raised so much money he just gave some away to other Texas candidates and Mamdani raised so much money during the primary that he told people to donate to Adrienne Adams. People aren't giving up on Ds. They just don't like the DNC. The DNC should think about that!

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · last wk.

can my comparative politics folks come up with any other example of the opposition party being $2m in debt when the incumbent government is ~20 points underwater on approval?

1. A short thread on the Trump / Kratsios "Golden Age of Science" report, the claim that scientific research has become less disruptive over time, and a paper about NIH's inadequate funding of novel science written by none other than the current director of the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya.