Engin Özkan

Many around the world are losing hope as populists are on the rise, but in Turkey, a pro-European, center-left party is ahead in all polls, and just had ~25% of the country's entire adult population (15.5/60 million) show up in a single Sunday for the party's primary elections.

17.04.2025 02:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one-third of its discretionary budget.

More from the Washington Post (and this one is a doozy) regarding the President's Budget. Note that this is an aspirational document and Congress has to act (or ignore it).

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16.04.2025 20:50 — 👍 45    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 2

From the #Turkey protests - this must be one of the best protest signs ever!

23.03.2025 00:11 — 👍 135    🔁 40    💬 1    📌 5

When did we tell journals to use mindless, bureaucratic pen pushing? Here is a request about one crystal structure from a journal with "Structural" in its title:

"Please provide a rationale as to why blinding was not applicable for protein structure studies."

Seriously??

18.03.2025 10:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe not the Grippen, which uses American engines. There are other European options that do not depend as much on American parts.

12.03.2025 04:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Histogram peaked at 3 minutes and 2 weeks since sent

When I will respond to your email

20.11.2024 18:29 — 👍 2070    🔁 351    💬 40    📌 86

Here is the full time evolution of the R01 grant size distribution from 1998 to 2023 showing the effect of the modular cap and then the disappearance of this influence.

17.11.2024 21:47 — 👍 58    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 6