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Nextdoor is diabolical for so many reasons, including the fact that they send digest emails with “top posts” that aren’t time-stamped. You click through only to find out they’re from 10 days ago…..

Bar chart shows percentage completed for SFSU students and CSULA students with low and high GPA. All completion rates at in the 80s except for high GPA CSULA students which have lower completion rates in the 70s.

My colleagues at @sfsu.bsky.social used 3 decades of data to show that students with low undergrad GPA have equal PhD completion rates compared to students with high GPA. @sfstatebio.bsky.social

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It’s truly thrilling to watch all of this unfold with his reporting…

How many couches will burn on Franklin St tonight

We are doomed by a collective obsession with “exceptionalism”

I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond!

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Trump admin is "destroying medical research," Senate report finds In a Senate hearing Tuesday, NIH director dismissed concern about research chaos.

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Please stop saying the bill allows "no more multi-year funding" - or at least be clear the 'more' is in reference to disastrous FY25 levels.

The bill allows 39% MYF, same as in FY25, which contributed substantially to a 24% drop in new research.

The bill has some wins. MYF is not one of them.

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up

Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

The very wise (and excellent committee chair) Mark Heise refused to refer to my oral exam as anything other than my “topic selection meeting,” which was a gracious and useful reframing for me!

Because, you know…he’s a traumatized little boy.

ABC News ran this photo tonight w the phrase “Liam sleeping peacefully in his father’s arms” (not a direct quote), which is missing crucial context from Castro’s other posts. His father said Liam is so depressed that he’s sleeping all the time, and constantly asks after his family and classmates.

BREAKING: ICE SHOOTS ANOTHER IN MINNEAPOLIS, TEAR GASSING OBSERVERS AT SCENE YouTube video by Status Coup News

ICE shot someone else in Minneapolis. This is a live stream from the scene www.youtube.com/live/ASr1zVu...

Thanks, I’m on the mend now!

If you’re on the faculty job market and having a super fun and not at all stressful experience, might I recommend an emergency abdominal surgery?

this, driving a person to suicide because they had the temerity to want to work in public service, is what russ vought hoped to accomplish

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left “We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

“Not only is our health at stake, but this attack on science is an attack on freedom of speech and thought. What we have seen at NIH is a threat to the fundamental freedoms that all of us cherish”

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Black-eyed peas soaking, grapes eaten, and lemon pig shrine constructed. Get fucked, 2025!

What I’ve been saying since they were originally reinstated…and says nothing of the grants that were never reinstated to begin with

BREAKING: The National Institutes of Health has agreed to evaluate grant applications that were wrongfully frozen due to the Trump administration’s ideological purge of biomedical research.

a black and white checkered sweater on knitting needles

started a new sweater and feeling pretty good about the floats

Marty Supreme was very fun, but man why are movie crowds so DULL these days???

Merry Christmas from Percy whose feelings about this wrapping paper mirror my feelings about 2025

lmao @ these two bellyaching about obsequence and orthodoxy

I hope the next bev trend is low caffeine….I want to be able to have coffees out on the town without my heart exploding

To me, this was the most memorable talk at Biology of Genomes this year! A very cool tour de force of genetics

Starting now — come join to hear from our great speakers!

Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed.
She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.

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