Richard.

a man sitting at a desk with his arms crossed Alt: a man sitting at a desk with his arms crossed

sitting in my office looking out at this ice-snow

a large blue and white ship is sitting in the ice Alt: a large blue and white icebreaker ship is sitting in the ice

clearing my parking space

"Fugitive slave catchers just need better training"--moderates in 1850, probably

if the Indiana Hoosiers just won the college football national championship, in football, you can make a difference in your local politics

I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.

Great piece on prioritizing quality over quantity in scientific publication.

For those of us with labs, this necessarily involves shrinking our group size. After I got tenure I started to downsize my lab and have not regretted it one iota. More time for each student & more time to think & write.

6 watercolor paintings in bright colors with different messages

I added a few new itty-bitty paintings to my Ko-Fi shop. Only one set of each ko-fi.com/1626SLXL3044...

"The system has become hyper-competitive — so much so that it is dangerous & corrosive. The many problems that the grant system has — incremental research, the loss of innovation — are symptoms of the fact that too many scientists are chasing after too few grant dollars."

The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left “We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...

a man wearing a plaid shirt and a blue vest is standing with his hands on his hips . ALT: a man wearing a plaid shirt and a blue vest is standing with his hands on his hips .

at firefox

This is exactly why things like ethics, unconscious bias and general confronting of people’s racism in science IS necessary and will always be necessary.

the mind sometimes need to know about bird poop.

LISTEN! The number of students of color I informally advise on publishing, fellowship applications, dissertations, job applications, fly outs, etc. could fill an auditorium. And the vast majority do not attend the institution that provides me with a W-2.

Gen-Zine: DIY publications find new life as form of resistance against Trump

"There’s a freedom people are craving because they’re feeling so constrained, surveilled and, frankly, threatened in so many other spheres."

Zines have made a resurgence as communities seek to share information on everything from ICE raids to local elections.

folks seem to be adding a lot of AI addendums. names of majors, schools, all getting "AI" added. Has anyone gone ahead and changed at the university level? Like "Texas A&M" but for Artificial Intelligence instead of agriculture. 😂

yearly reminder

Don't experiment on thanksgiving. 😂

a woman is sitting on a couch with a phone in her mouth . Alt: a woman is sitting on a couch and is confused

maybe I'm misreading the email, but I think they just floated the idea of using AI in the tenure & promotion process.

a man wearing a hat and sunglasses is talking into a microphone with the words you know why i 'm here ALT: a man wearing a hat and sunglasses is talking into a microphone with the words you know why i 'm here

a few days late

People are desperately drawn to phrenology. You could set your clock by the regularity at which those stupid papers come out and are debunked. Can't people FINALLY know better?
No, the urge to judge people by characteristics they can't control is too strong...

a bald man wearing a plaid shirt and a black vest Alt: disappointed man

I've actually been just standing here this whole time
reading the AI discourse

It was one thing when this was about intellectual ephemera. I ver it. Mock us all day long. We do, in fact, make up words. But seeing people throw “gatekeeping” charges at practical craftspeople feels so bleak.

a young man is standing in a living room with the words it 's a disgrace on his face . ALT: a young man is standing in a living room with the words it 's a disgrace on his face .

I see the professional smart man is saying ridiculous things again.

MusicNet (1995) was an early "online" music store that came on a CD with music samples. You could preview tracks, add items to your shopping list, and then call a phone number to order with your credit card.

DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero who has a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains."

Alt in pic 1 Happy Labor Day

a man wearing a black hat and a nike vest is raising his fist . Alt: tiger woods wearing a black hat and a nike vest is raising his fist .

managed to work "D1 babies" into my lecture on day 1 of the semester.

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'These kids are ticking time bombs': The threat of youth basketball In part one of a two-part series, ESPN explores the dangers of youth basketball -- and how the culture of perpetual competition is jeopardizing the futures of the very stars it hopes to create.

This article is always relevant
www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

a man in a suit and tie is smiling in an office . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling in an office .

damn.

Are you two friends? Black Psychologist: No Psychologist who are into IQ tests: yes

just me going through my old memes