Gibraan Rahman

Funny how it works. We have all these “lab leak” articles always starting with how they were “silenced”, “censored”, etc, etc.

Yet, for years, all we hear about is the lab leak. Same nonsense over and over.

Those *truly* being silenced are the scientists doing the work. Including in the NYTimes.

16.03.2025 19:03 — 👍 79    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 0

a tiny white dog stands on a tile floor and looks up at you. they’re wearing a big plush yellow star around their teensy noggin, like the world’s most congratulatory lion mane. we really needed to see her today.

We've been saving this little pup for when we thought you all might really need a gold star. And, given the current circumstances, here she is. 13/10

05.03.2025 19:00 — 👍 22768    🔁 3177    💬 418    📌 243

Tomorrow in the NYT: I voted for Donald Trump because I hate the people he hates and wanted to see them suffer. Now that I am suffering, why can’t you find it in your heart to be sympathetic? RUDE

21.02.2025 16:50 — 👍 2613    🔁 447    💬 54    📌 11

Thank you, @washingtonpost.com, for using correct verbiage. @nytimes.com you really really need to do better - it's embarrassing and incredibly damaging by now.

13.02.2025 21:12 — 👍 59    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

Absolutely. I found that when I was adding annotations but not checking them I was often lulled into a false sense of security. Only when adding a type checker that runs on CI did I realize how misleading bare annotations can be. Especially during refactors...

10.02.2025 18:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Study sections are the review panels that allocate NIH research grants. They bring in experts from around the country and have to be scheduled many months in advance; they provide the funds that keep the nation's biomedical research going.

It's hard to overstate the disruption this causes.

22.01.2025 23:20 — 👍 1094    🔁 448    💬 21    📌 17

if you're a tech journalist in the present climate, it's incumbent upon you to ask why big tech is pursuing dead ends like AI when they could just start using the number 2. ones and zeroes have taken us as far as they can. either chuck a few 2s in there or cede the future of tech to those who will

06.12.2024 17:43 — 👍 3534    🔁 522    💬 67    📌 27

One of my favorite papers on Bayesian workflows!

26.11.2024 14:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Reviewer 2: Do one more single cell RNA seq experiment, validate it by qPCR, make sure your UMAP fits my expectations

24.11.2024 00:40 — 👍 36    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0