I have long thought that academic writing would benefit from being more direct. In support of my argument, I present the introduction to this review.
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I have long thought that academic writing would benefit from being more direct. In support of my argument, I present the introduction to this review.
Now I'm kind of curious about what your most unpopular opinion is.
An excellent point. I had forwarded this to my chairs and other departmental colleague earlier today. At your suggestion, I have now also sent it to my deans and vice chancellor for research.
I know I should not be, but I am surprised every time I see irrefutable evidence of what a weird, edge-case outlier I am.
And a second plot, averaged across all institutes.
An informative plot regarding the collapse of NIH funding. I almost hate to say it, but I am glad my work falls under NIBIB's mandate.
I enjoy all of these posts you make, Roger, but this is a particularly good one. I was unaware of this amazing scientist.
Quelle surprise!
Top shelf Demolition Man reference.
Reason #614 why I love Melbourne. A pop-up tiramisu stand has magically appeared across the street from our apartment building.
Great. Trying to figure what that joke was is going to keep me up at nights.
Caligula, in contrast, merely threatened to make his horse a consul; he didn't actually do it.
I, for one, would like to see them take over the NIH.
A sadly accurate synopsis of the current state of America. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
Can't say I blame the study section members. Zoom meetings suck, and what's being done to the NIH is disheartening.
Counter argument: recently I've received scores of 5 on individual review criteria _with no listed weaknesses_. In my day (i.e., < 2 years ago, when I rotated off my most recent study section stint), there's no way in hell a SRO would let that pass. Quality is falling. I will die on that hill.
Lowest ranking _so far_.
I.e., "if the standard deviation in a PI's scores weren't so high as to raise serious questions regarding the rigor of the process." Agreed. Not that I think there's a better process. But I also hold with the general consensus that recent changes at the NIH have degraded rigor even more.
I have trouble believing anyone gets consistent scores. I've had. scores go from ND to 2nd percentile with trivial revisions, which clearly means I got unlucky the first time and lucky the second.
To be fair Brazil and South Korea cracked down on Yoon and Bolsonaro *precisely because* they have been dictatorships in living memory, and the UK monarchy let itself be investigated like this *because* other monarchies collapsed. Assuming your institutions are unimpregnable per se... not so smart
The Lars Homestead filming location of Star Wars
The Mos Espa filming location from Star Wars
Paying homage at Luke and Anikin Skywalker's old haunts during our few-week wander around N Africa this month.
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
Thank you for this, Brandon. I would add they should coordinate more broadly, which seems to have not happened (at least not as far as I am aware, and I have been asking about this "aggressively and coordinately")
Sometime late in the last century, while having a phone conversation with a friend and colleague, I a vision struck me. Today I'm happy to report that, nearly 28 years later, that vision is one step closer to clinical reality.
"where we get to see Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Apple,"
Tim Apple- I see what you did there!
Yet another escalation.
Dang! I read that to my wife, and now she wants to meet you.
"Pigovian tax." Today I learned a new phrase. Thank you.
