@nccomfort.bsky.social
Historian of science & medicine and writer @ Johns Hopkins & Berkeley. Biography of James Watson coming soonish from Basic Books. Also rock climbing, roots music, tattoos, dogs, humor. My opinions are his –>
"What distinguishes the current approach is not industrial policy itself but how it operates—circumventing ordinary accountability mechanisms in favor of discretionary power."
Powerful piece by @alondra.bsky.social in @science.org .
It's right up there, for sure
Welcome to "curiosity-driven research" in the 2020s:
"MRC will make targeted investments enabling disciplines, technologies, methodologies and skills to combine when needed to address an important research question."
Vannevar Bush it's not.
WE ALL HAVE THE EXACT SAME GENETIC CODE THATS WHY SEX ACTUALLY WORKS
Interesting. The exact same could be said of James Watson (4 yrs younger) and molecular biology, Before the Fall (2007).
I posted a 1912 photo of a man with smallpox and someone asked if it was AI. That says something about the moment we’re living in: because of vaccination, we’re now so far removed from this virus that real images of it look fake. #medicalhistory #vaccines #vaccineswork #skystorians
no but what the literal actual fuck. people are betting on their own therapy?
what if someone shorts himself?
And such a polite request, too!
But are you sure that’s not this week’s cryptotechno businessspeak jargon for authors?
It sounds so evil I can just imagine it.
lol i feel you
Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social is fighting the good fight. Every fucking day.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
We'll need mats around the podiums but OK let's rumble
That's one way to race toward a cashless society
Welp, that's one way to race toward a cashless society
Oh, yeah. I sensed the media blitz as a child word-junkie. The ads were everywhere in the 1960s-70s. But it was "premium"—with quotes. Low-rent premium. Chivas, not Lagavulin.
Meta-analysis strongly suggests instability of indeterminate amplitude and wavelength
Just dropped: The Dismantling of American Science, chap. 24.
Lol and as usual you wrote it down simply and got it out while I was immersed in fiddling with my thoughts and words.
Doesn't seem like the kind of award you'd put on your CV
ah, March on the East Coast... Yesterday it was 83 degrees and I was walking around in shorts and short sleeves. Now it's 38 and I'm back huddling under my afghan, watching it snow.
Global weirdening.
Sad but true
“-esque” = like, or similar to; hence connotations of being ersatz. If you’re looking for a note of skepticism or irony, use -esque.
If we mean derived from or in the manner of, then Bourdieusian, Bourdieuvian or even Bourduvian.
Perhaps the Mancunian @matthewcobb.bsky.social wld weigh in?
Don't forget racist, sexist, immoral, shortsighted, and selfish!
consciousness-raising ≠ promotion
Skyvemind:
So who’s writing a serious history-of-capitalism take on the AI <cough> revolution? Who’s talking about the political economy and env’tal history of AI and data centers?
I’m pretty sure this calls for Marxists.
The “AI revolution” is going to make Net Zero seem quaint.
Holland is so adorable! In small towns, the men are taller than the stoplights!
And there is no better (or safer) way to tour the marvelous Low Countries breweries than by steel, 3-speed, upright bike w/ built-in lock and magneto headlight.
Arose today 445 CDT. Back in Baltimore by 1400 EDT. Grabbed falafel, had 30’ to eat & finish prepping class; taught said class 1600-1830. Ran some errands, reached the country @ 1930. Ate, washed up, now @ last winding down @ 2045 EDT.
19-hr day.
I can enjoy that in short well-spaced bouts.
btw, I’m not mocking the v nice middle Eastern guy who made me a pretty delicious falafel. I just love wordplay, deliberate or not
You want umlauts with your sandwish? Cökë?