Sarah Goetz

So sorry to hear this. Thinking of you, Becky!

Gotta say I agree with Lady Catherine de Bourgh here…

In the 8 years that NYC was my home, I don’t think I ever paid attention to a mayor being sworn in. But I’m truly excited that our largest (and best ❤️) city is on track to return to its long history of generous social programs and again be a beacon to the nation. Much luck to Mayor Mamdani!

True but there’s now the Q on 2nd ave, so less bad.

This kinda sounds funny but it’s not. Larry Summers is one of, if not the biggest bully currently active in academia. Why in God’s name is he still there? Why has he been there for the 20+ years that we’ve all known what he is like? WTF y’all been doing up at Harvard???

Can relate to this today.

I had the same problem today. According to the Helpdesk, its problems with Chrome since the shutdown. Switching to Firefox worked.

Sorry, but in what sense is this not already incredibly competitive? Also the received wisdom that discovery and innovation come only from competition (and in the bleak af examples given of manufacturing, that “competition” is simply lower wages) is not supported by evidence.

And to be clear, it is the important half of the job. Where you learn what’s going on in your field and come up with new ideas. It’s the intellectual part of the job. Why do ppl think an LLM can do that and *why would you want it to* ?!?!?!

The last example is especially dubious. As a scientist, I don’t think finding and synthesizing relevant literature is mindless scutwork we should outsource to a machine. That’s like, half the job of doing science.

I’m so tired of this. This one hits close to home, literally- I’m from RI, and I’ve spend a lot of time near Brown’s campus. I know well all of the places referenced in the media. When can we replace our leaders (in both parties) and end this?

This is my congressional district. Very excited Nida is running again!

This. When my son was born, I tried so, so hard to exclusively breastfeed him. I had two different lactation consultants. Nothing really worked- I could not produce enough milk and he needed formula. Some people act like this isn't a real problem, but it is. Scare-mongering about formula is harmful

Turkey soup freezes pretty well...

My comment was a general one, so the specifics are unimportant. It’s about scientists defending leadership reflexively. If I had a$ for every time someone said about someone in leadership “they’re such a great scientist, just out of their depth/overwhemed” I wouldn’t need to worry about 2% paylines

I’m US-based so not extremely familiar with ERC, but in general I’ve noticed ppl, and lately scientists specifically, are weirdly loyal to leaders even when said leaders are less than zealous in advocating for us. Ppl get very hung up on how much they admired the person as a scientist.

I mean the underlying problem is it doesn’t “know” anything. I think a lot of ppl think llms are doing something like taking their prompt, searching the whole internet for the answer, analyzing what they find and reporting back to you. But that isn’t how they work at all.

A main takeaway from the interview is that they make decisions by a majority vote of the membership, with folks generally expected to support the majority decision. So 1) it’s not just up to Zohran and 2)if Chi Ossé can convince a majority he should win their support. It’ll be a real debate, rightly

thedig.blubrry.net/podcast/how-...

It’s not directly related to this primary, but The Dig podcast had a long interview with the NYC DSA co-chairs after Mandani won his primary. They talked about the DSA’s role in the primary campaign, their general electoral strategy, and how they choose candidates. July 1 episode.

That was actually the exact topic Summers was meant to be addressing with that speech. So for the president of Harvard’s thesis on the topic to be “women probably aren’t smart enough to hack it” was disappointing, worrisome, and upsetting.

When Summers made this speech, he was the president of Harvard, and I was a 25 yo grad student in cell and molecular biology, staring down the extremely bleak numbers offemale faculty running research labs in my field (despite the fact that we were at least half of trainees).

It should have. But Summers’ extremely obvious misogynist views were never disqualifying because Democratic politicians loved his neoliberal economics far more than they cared about the misogyny. That includes Obama and very much the Clintons.

So only if there were issues? Or also if I just feel like revising it?

This is kind of confusing. Will the extended deadlines apply even if you actually submitted the grants and they are in Commons? I realize you don't know. But this notice could really have used more clarity...

I mean, there is also an energy/meal replacement drink company called "Soylent". 🤦‍♀️

If many scientists (especially younger ones) are more angry about his legacy than sad he is gone, he chose that path himself.

James Watson’s entire public personality was punching down while also feeling entitled to public adulation. When I was a postdoc in NYC, I had to periodically encounter him when he would appear, seeking said attention in our community.

And I mean this is the worse possible way. It made me angry at everyone who said this was such a great read that inspired their love of science and reflected what it was like to make exciting discoveries. Because where the fuck did that leave me and my peers?

James D. Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
To me, reading “The Double Helix” many years ago as a grad student felt like getting hit in the face. His cruelty towards a talented colleague whose work his major discovery depended on and who had, and I can’t emphasize this enough, *DIED*, was immediately stunning.