Priyam Das

Keep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papers Retractions correct the scientific record, but they have stigma attached to them. Some in the research community want that to change.

Keep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papers www.nature.com/articles/d41... @elisabethbik.bsky.social

Hope you get it soon! I remember the waitlist being pretty long when it first came out but when I got my copy from the library last weekend there were several other copies on the shelf.

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Just started reading this book and I get the feeling that this poor woman was like the proverbial frog in the pot of boiling water. Her stories about the people and processes at Meta are fascinating.

A paid summer internship is available in Microsoft Research NYC for a *PhD student later in their degree*, with experience designing human questionnaires/experiments, collecting data on prolific, running statistical analysis, and writing papers. If you know exceptional candidates please ping me. 🙏

Help gather signatures for Connect Bay Area, the 5-county regional funding measure to save transit. Join us at one or several of the 60+ events happening this month.

Check out all upcoming events at: luma.com/connectbayarea

an exhausted orange cat, on a pillow, yawning widely

Give me my fucking hour back. I need it

The Pokémon Company Is Actively Recruiting PhD Holders With Backgrounds in Ecology to Work in Tokyo - IGN The Pokémon Company is actively recruiting PhD holders with backgrounds in ecology to work in Tokyo. This is perhaps the closest chance Pokémon fans have to channel their inner Professor Oak in real l...

ugh I picked the wrong field

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: https://scim.ag/4boPkq8

Making my own asar (lime pickle) for the first time

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Me at El Cerrito Plaza TOD construction site, smiling wearing BART and El Cerrito pins

El Cerrito Council and staff breaking ground with shovels at El Cerrito Plaza TOD construction site

Construction equipment at El Cerrito Plaza TOD construction site

Related shovels in dirt at El Cerrito Plaza TOD construction site

Today’s groundbreaking ceremony for El Cerrito Plaza BART TOD was exciting!

It will be transformative for our small city, with 743 homes, major bike/ped improvements, and hopefully a new library.

I’ve worked on this project for a decade and couldn’t be happier that it’s now under construction.

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

I have been flipping through all the channels and all the websites because I cannot believe this

If we're not in academia to create safe spaces, Black graduate students get pushed out. If they, by some miracle, finish their PhDs despite the hurdles, it's accompanied by trauma and health issues.

from the San Francisco Chronicle: "The Warriors left, the A's left, but it's kind of like we have someone to look up to and somebody that our kids can aspire to be," Steve Ha of Illuminairies told NBC Bay Area.

While I do feel some pity for Oakland for losing “major” sports teams, I think they came out on top in the end with an Olympic figure skating champion.

A heavy metal wheel crank laid against a wrought iron fence among various other free items

*sigh* great. There’s obviously some sort of device nearby I’m gonna need to use this on to compete a puzzle so I gotta lug it to the leftist coffee shop and bookstore with me

A meme of Alysa Liu based on Da Share Zone reading: JUST WALK OUT work social thing movies home class dentist figure skating too fancy weed store cops it your quick friend ships IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!!! Real winners quit You can leave!! Da Gold Zone

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

since I am not done Alysa Liu-posting, here she is making heart hands at the trans flag because she rules

regional transit connections map, lots of transit on it across the whole Bay

The Bay Area's new transit map is out and it comes with one incredibly exciting change: parks accessible by transit services!

Let's talk regional wayfinding to parks and destinations 🧵

I bought some Japanese hard candies (read: cough drops) for my coworkers but then I caught a cold as soon as I got back from PTO and this irony is not lost on me

The team event was INCREDIBLE! Olympic figure skating has been so so good so far

me irl

it will only intensify as soon as someone asks me about that football game this weekend like how could I have time for that when the olympics are on?!?

The US Olympics Team wearing duffle coats. Most of them are in white duffle coats. The person in the middle is wearing a navy duffle coat and carrying the US flag. They are wearing them over USA sweaters, white pants with elasticated cuffs, and tan suede hiking boots.

Black and white photo of some men in the British Royal Navy wearing duffle coats on a ship. They are looking out into the distance.

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery waeirng a duffle coat over a turtleneck sweater. He appears to be reviewing plans.

A Royal Navy officer using a sextant aboard a destroyer on convoy protection duties, 1942. He's wearing a tan duffle coat.

Dig the duffle coats on the US Team. The rope toggles harken back to the original military design when the Allies fought fascists. Manufacturers such as Gloverall switched to leather after the war to make the civilian versions feel more "upscale."

Paris doing an outdoor ceremony throughout the whole city/along the seine was SO cool

The winter olympics opening ceremony is my superbowl halftime show

map showing trailheads all across California by what kind of transit access they have

California's great outdoors is more transit accessible than you think -- I've added trailheads all across the state to Hiking by Transit, ready for your outdoor adventure!

Check it out: hikingbytransit.com

Image of BART map with service changes illustrated. Phase 1 - January 2027: Service Frequencies and Station Closures 63% reduction in train hours Reduced base schedule • 3-line base schedule each with 2 trains/hour • 240% more transfers (Percentage of trips requiring a transfer increases from 7% to 22%) Test retaining peak service: • Peak Green/Red/Yellow trains operate in peak hours/direction only No evening service • Close 9 PM (7 days) • Open 8 AM (Saturday and Sunday) Close 10 lowest ridership stations: Castro Valley, North Concord, Oakland International Airport, Orinda, Pittsburg Center, San Bruno, South Hayward, South San Francisco, Warm Springs, and West Dublin/Pleasanton

If the Connect Bay Area measure fails, BART would slash service by 63% in January 2027:

Reduced base schedule: 3 lines with 2 trains per hour, resulting in 240% more transfers

NO evening service, service ending at 9 pm

Close 10 lowest ridership stations...

Also I appreciate Mejia reminding Angelenos that we're on the hook if this all goes awry

Kudos to Mayor Mamdani.

This is what economic justice looks like.

And it's a reminder of how we can fight corporate greed at the state and local level. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/mamdani-ice-delivery-workers-settlement-backpay-uber-gig-workers-million/