HL Eisthen, defective human product

I agree. Any advice on how to address some of the problems coming out of this administration in answer to any of their questions?

Notice of Request for Information; Accelerating the American Scientific Enterprise The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) requests input from all interested parties on Federal policy updates that aim to accelerate the American scientific enterprise, enable groundbreaking...

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is seeking input on Federal policy updates to accelerate the American scientific enterprise.

This is your chance to give some feedback on how the past ~10 months have gone for science.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

I plan to highlight:

#chemjobs

We are phasing out the terms “extant” and “extinct” from our exhibits and will now refer to species as either “Darwinners" or “Darlosers.”

The cover of Leonard Cohen's album "Songs from a Room".

Try this instead.

Absolutely still worried but it's definitely a positive development.

I have friends and colleagues who are museum curators, and I know what a critical lifeline IMLS grants are for small museums.

This is really important. Both in the fact of IMLS reinstating grants. (Which have been *crucial* for libraries and civic life across the country. Notably in rural areas.)

And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.

Yay!!

This at a university that is undergoing minimum 9% budget cuts over the next two years and laying people off. But we're told the stadium will be paid for by donors and corporate deals and so we shouldn't concern ourselves about it.

Reminder: arms races never end. Status is a positional good. How long until universities realize that they will be driven to ruin trying to keep up? The sooner that the Power 4 schools spin out professional sports franchises that license the university names and set coherent rules, the better.

Every Democrat should be an ICE abolitionist.

None of this “we all agree you need to come here legally” or “we all agree the immigration system needs reform.” Fuck focus groups and polls.

Inform the public of these atrocities and shift the Overton window to a presumption of equality for everyone.

We're doing pogroms in America now

Olivia Nuzzi’s Much-Hyped Book Was Always Going to Be Self-Serving. It’s So Much Worse Than That. God, everyone sucks so much in American Canto.

One nice thing about bad writing is that it inspires good writing

I love reading people waxing poetic and philosophical about sandwiches (@swordsjew.bsky.social being a particularly fun practitioner of the form).

Just really seems like it gives NIH officials a lot more leeway to fund (or not) any particular proposal. Which on the upside is more like what NSF does but also really seems ripe for abuse.

This is a good, pretty comprehensive look at changes in funding at both NIH and NSF. Been hearing about all these shifts individually but it’s useful (although v frustrating) to see them together and to visualize the outcomes.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We live in an era where people who have never gone 100% on any creative project hear that AI can get them 90% of the way and think the future is nigh, not understanding that creatives spend their careers honing the skills required to navigate the last 10%.

Meet Prince, my Amazon Milk tree froglet. Here he is resting in the moss. However, he is mostly arboreal, spending much of his time in the canopy of his paladarium.

#naturephotography #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #photography #amphibian #frog #herps

Oh no. I apologize for unleashing this, Jacob.

Dammit but I really want to say something about the olive burgers.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say “all the ways”.

Meant to come back to this… even at the end where he’d rather sit in the street and look up at her balcony, imagining what’s happening up there rather than visit her… creepy stalker shit.

When It Happens It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN. It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until...

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Moby Dick Big Read

Gonna remind everyone that on days when you don't have time to sit and read but could listen, the Moby Dick Big Read is an excellent option: www.mobydickbigread.com

Was Melville’s Ishmael not white? A glance at the autumn issue of The Massachusetts Review: Was Melville’s Ishmael not white? Moby-Dick is alone among Herman Melville’s works in having received little analysis of its racial and ethnic...

www.chronicle.com/article/was-...

Facts. Spent a few hours today on rec letters for just one person in my lab who's applying to grad schools.

Dang it, I was all excited there for a moment. 🐋

Did it last time, ready to do it again.

this is quite the detail