Terry McGlynn

We Found the Health Web Pages the Government Doesn’t Want You to See. We're Publishing Them. Short answer: Experts told us this info is still useful.

Men's Health magazine is publishing all of the health information pages that the CDC has been removing from their site.
What. the. fuck. is. this. timeline????

Good article, but the framing is wrong. There is not a dearth of interest in taxonomy. There is a scarcity of funding and positions, which is a deliberate choice by funding agencies and institutions. The youth love taxonomy! It's the olds that are failing to meet their passion!

Duolingo screenshot showing a correct translation of “No leíste ningún artículo sobre la salud publica?” as “Didn’t you read any articles about public health?”

Look here, duolingo, I don’t need this shit.

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I feel like one exception is with ADVANCE grants (which isn't students), but oftentimes part of these awards are to change institutional policies and practices for recruitment, retention, promotion, etc. and sometimes these awards will have lasting impact even after the funding runs out.

Clearly the 'sustainability' section of training grants and site awards designed to broaden participation is the one that gets the least scrutiny in review. Either the institution funds it when the grant is over, or they don't. The latter is clearly the norm!

Met someone who spent their career building programs to support underrepresented scientists at all career stages. We asked what he wished he knew earlier. He said he wished he knew how to make these programs sustainable, so that his life work didn't crumble with a change in leadership.

In the last month I've gotten at least two 'we want to include your book in a reading club' scam emails? Must be a new trend?

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

Because we advisors were the ones who were updating the file. We're doing the same updating, it's just now in two different computer systems that we need to update.

I wonder though? We had this system when I came to my campus in the late aughts and still had the one staff member in the office. What has changed is the amount of detail/information that we are expected to deal with.

But correcting proofs by just writing on them instead of trying to do the impossible software markup thing?

Did I feel positive nostalgia, like if I had an advising appointment in my office, I could just go to the office and pull one file folder? Instead of logging into a minimum of three different systems and spending more time looking at a computer screen then the person I'm actually helping?

(would it be more work on the back end? I dunno. I imagine there wouldn't be anybody arguing about using a separate exchange rate for every single day when submitting an international travel reconcilation)

In the new Pitt episode they have to shift to non-internet operations from the 90s.

Makes me wonder if we did this at my university, would this make things actually simpler, easier, and be more time efficient for faculty? I believe it would.

whoah. In an adminish role I allow folks to see my calendar availability, and I have a ton of meetings nowadays because of the role, but nobody's going to pop a meeting on my calendar without checking in with me. I occasionally get invites pop up as a courtesy, not for when I'm expected.

In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.” “Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

Claudine Gay was punished and lost her job for incomplete citations in her PhD dissertation.

You got this. I bet you’ll hit 5k/day at least once!

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

(but since this goes beyond academic affairs, as it involves residence life, campus safety, etc, then it's more of a president-level thing than a provost thing)

entirely reasonable. (My university created a strategic workgroup to protect our students and staff from this kind of stuff, planning for all kinds of situations)

like hummingbirds have a heart rate that goes over 1000 beats per minute. Which is extremely fast even compared to other birds. It's like comparing an apple to a... something extremely different than an apple

Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard placed mathematics professor Martin Nowak on paid administrative leave amid a renewed investigation into his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein, according to a letter obtained…

Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties