Charles F. Caskey

Very sad loss

Yay, this is great to hear :-) I might use it more now haha

Is the issue that the internet seems to use it to describe eerie places? Liminal spaces can be scary (e.g., an old mall undergoing construction, a midlife crisis, etc.), but "liminal" doesn't describe that aspect

Without consulting a dictionary, I'm gonna type that I think this means being in a state of transition. I don't use it often due to being unsure of this, but I'm still praying I am in the 12% !!

Being on soft money has enabled some good opportunities, but the apparent floor for hard money positions does seem nice right now. I try not to think what my worst-case scenario is, but it's clearly not great. Still consider myself fortunate to be a researcher on the whole!

Making NCEs unpredictable seems like another way to bleed research dry. Between the uncertainty of awards being disbursed at the front and a sharp cliff rather than taper at the end, the best adjustment I can think is to make a time machine and convince myself to not take this career path

I've had these periodically for like 20 years. The onset is terrifying every time

Research animals are precious and we owe a lot to them. This isn't the bright spot you think it is, though. These animals are just going to be euthanized and animal research will continue in places that have less supervision.

Nice. Earlier this year, I created a tab called "Idle scroll" in my browser that links to things like the Public Domain Image Archive.

I've also been getting books from the library because it puts me on a timeline to finish them. "Can't doomscroll right now--gotta finish my books!"

I gotta say, I wouldn't have clocked these for being from 1895 immediately after Roentgen's discovery of X-rays. I feel like the field of medical imaging moved pretty slow for the period after this.

You've got two hands. Mash'em both at the same time!!

Oh nice, an extra layer of performative authoritarian garbage to cut through as I spend my weekend finishing reviews that are due tonight. The people who wrote these applications deserve to have them reviewed. Monitor away!

YouTube video by Sharon, Lois & Bram - Topic Flea Fly Mosquito

Yeah! Pretty sure it's at 10sec in this song:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia6q...

Fun fact: the "No More Mosquitoes" sample is from Sharon, Lois and Bram's elephant show!

Close-up portrait of a buff-colored cat sitting on a cat bed on a loveseat

Golden boy living his best life 🐈

As an imaging scientist, I will never type the word "imagine" without typing "imaging" first.

Yo that album is amazing. What does 1982 refer to? Release time frame is def late 90s, early 2000s Warp Records

"Chladni figures" from 1787 created by German physicist and musician Ernst Chladni, showing nodal patterns made by drawing a bow along the edge of a sand-covered plate. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chladni-figures-1787

Also A+ use of what looks like video of a Yayoi Kusama installation in the background

As someone who still listens front-to-back, I think this is on you rather than the music, but maybe that's why you have time to decipher NIH funding policies and trends for us :-)

Oh yah -- I listened to "The New Abnormal" at least 100 times from front to back during pandemic lockdowns

Yes and "spin up" is a close second for me.

"Yo -- just gotta spin up a little extra compute for the product launch!" 🤮

Is this the bar we're holding our tech entrepreneurs to these days? It seems difficult to spend trillions and *not* transform the world. Hit me up, I can do it for 1/10th of that.

Planning to resubmit something sitting at 9%. Makes me want to look for another job.

As a fan of the em and en dashes prior to the explosion of its use with ChatGPT, I'm conflicted. One one hand, I am happy others will now use this helpful punctuation; however, I don't like that people view it as a signal that GPT was the source of the writing.

Hehe, part of what makes it a great band name :-)

You can search "history of industrial music" to satisfy your curiosity!

Writing 'Hope all is well!' in an email has felt increasingly awkward lately. Like, no, all is clearly not well, but what am I supposed to do, write 'Hope things are medium okay'?

Ugh yeah ... Even in predictable times, this process often ends with soft commitments and memos of understanding that can be rescinded. On the other hand, funding new PIs still seems super important and like a high-value investment

totally -- I already feel like I strain pre-award folks with all of my failed and resubmitted applications, which is nowhere close to this number

"... 40 distinct applications in a single application submission round" is wild!

The 6 / year limit seems like a lot, but I can see immediate changes in decision-making for soft money folks who have ~3 simultaneous R01-level grants (e.g. really consider those multi-PI apps...)

I'm hiring! I'm recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to help launch and shape my new lab at @uoknightcampus.bsky.social!! careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...