Leave It To Beaver is probably the most common reference point for this and in the pilot they make it clear she's from Kentucky horse money. She has a trust fund. And in a time when the average white man earned 5K a year, he earned over 20K a year. That's around 200K in today's numbers.
A short Bluetorial on plots of NIH application success rates as a function of percentile.
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Since this got some interested, I just reproduced a similar test I did with Gemini, in Claude.
You can *really* see how grovelling and apologetic the text generation is designed to be, and what type of impact that might have on a user
claude.ai/share/978a82...
okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.
Well. I can't remember the last time I liked a UK Eurovision entry, but this *gets* it in a way I thought we'd lost. Thunderingly British, including oodles of self-deprecation, and yet a love letter to the rest of the world, especially Europe. Brexiters will hate this.... youtu.be/niMKvJ-Itq8?...
Banner reading Pioneers of Punk, Trouble with a capital T. There is a drawing of a skinny shirtless punk with a mohawk, side view, bending over holding a bass with an anarchy A taped on it.
Well, this is my weekend.
The way we live now.
I haven't subscribed to a standalone "AI" service but in at least three cases (Google, Microsoft, Adobe) "AI" was shoved into an already existing subscription whether I wanted it there or not, including, in the case of Google, the subscription I had because I didn't want to pay for the "AI" option.
A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)
Directorates to follow
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Success in this business brings a certain freedom that comes with responsibility to support each other, to lift others up when we can, to keep the door open for the next kid, the next lost boy who's looking for a place to belong. I'm indeed a lucky guy. Lucky to have found my people, lucky to have work that challenges me, lucky to still be doing it. And I don't take that for granted.
My quote of the day
Harrison Ford
SAG-AFTRA awards, March 1, 2026
Again: Not hyperbole, misinterpretation, or a joke that Christian Dominionism is a strain of apocalyptic accelerationism which VERY LITERALLY SEEKS to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world, & the people who believe this have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power
Both can be true
Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
Writing is thinking.
Good observations from @drugmonkey.bsky.social about early stage investigators (or at least Director Bhattacharya's comments on a podcast about them).
drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/02/26/n...
If you write your grant like you write your paper, with tepid and cautious language that is always hedging its bets - you're not going to get anyone excited. If you don't believe in what you're doing, then why should anyone else? (and same outcome if you don't spell that belief out on the page)
just got my summary statement 😭😭
and as I gear up to write a MIRA (re)submission, I'm trying to INTERNALIZE this thread:
more declarative statements, less hedging
more leading w/ conclusions, less leading w/ data
more broad and expansive language, less narrow language
maybe it'll work? 🤷🏽♀️
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#BOTD
That said, "believe" is one of the words I recommend not using in a grant proposal. You came to a reasoned conclusion. Argue for it.
This. This right here and the whole short 🧵
What do Congress's top appropriators say?
“This is a drastic departure from historical practice,” @delauro.house.gov told @nature.com.
DeLauro and @murray.senate.gov demanded that OMB release funds, as is required by law.
(The top Republicans, Rep Tom Cole & Sen Susan Collins didn't respond.)
Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
Image with a black background. A pink triangle tip pointed up is in the middle. Underneath in white all caps letters is "SILENCE=DEATH"
The TLDR for the pink triangle though is that the AIDS activists popularized the pink triangle through their Silence = Death poster
I don't know anything about sailing but I love a good information-wants-to-be-free story
"...essentially shifted NSF away from its role as an independent agency that funds all fields outside clinical medicine using input from the research community into a vehicle for administration priorities."
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It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow
It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker
This was never about woman's sports
Axel. Quelle surprise
