I'm puzzled as well. Similarly: Why did the NSF director resign, without even making a statement that he's resigning in protest?

27.06.2025 17:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

An Informal Overview of US Science Funding How does public funding for science work in the United States? How much money is there? Who gets it, and how? How much does a graduate student cost? Even normally, science funding is a rich topic w…

I put together a rough presentation on how US science funding works, for my & neighboring research groups, mainly aimed at grad students. Lots of neat graphs! (Each could be a story of its own...) Quiz questions! I pasted it into a blog post: eighteenthelephant.com/2025/06/11/a...

11.06.2025 14:20 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Are we missing 400 students? How many out-of-state (non-Oregon-resident) students are there at the University of Oregon (UO)? This is an easy question to answer: about 9000, or about 45% of the total undergraduate student popu…

"Are we missing 400 students?" -- A new post, probably only of interest, if to anyone, to Oregonians or maybe others at state universities. Do we have fewer out-of-state students than expected? eighteenthelephant.com/2025/05/06/a...

06.05.2025 02:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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Check out Jazz Sabbath!

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The most important, and the most pointless, course I’ve taught Last quarter, I taught for the first time the first term of the introductory undergraduate physics sequence, the standard “physics with calculus”:” class that exists in some form …

The most important, and the most pointless, course I've taught -- thoughts on my first time teaching intro physics. eighteenthelephant.com/2025/04/11/t...

11.04.2025 22:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why Don’t Academics Care About Artificial Intelligence? It’s February 2025 and this, like some of my other recent posts (here, here), could be a snapshot of a landscape being transformed by the roaring river of artificial intelligence. But it isn&…

Why Don't Academics Care About Artificial Intelligence? -- A new blog post. (Probably more general than academics...) eighteenthelephant.com/2025/02/03/w...

03.02.2025 15:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A very cold bike ride this morning (27 F), but even better than usual scenery crossing the Willamette.

22.01.2025 16:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Image Analysis Course Recap, Fall 2024 Last term (Fall 2024) I again taught the computational image analysis course I developed a few years ago (see 2021, 2022). It was again a mixed graduate and undergraduate course, this time with an …

Thoughts on last term's image analysis course, including the question of why, in 2024, should one learn about image analysis methods.
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10.01.2025 18:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Year in Books, 2024 Once again, highlights of the books I read in the past year, featuring the end (for now) of my education in twentieth-century semi-organized crime, a book on semi-organized twentieth-cent…

The Year in Books, 2024
My annual post of highlights of the past year's reading, "...featuring the end (for now) of my education in twentieth-century semi-organized crime, a book on semi-organized twentieth-century chimpanzees, and more." eighteenthelephant.com/2024/12/31/t...

31.12.2024 05:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How did the press do on that “black spatula” story? Not so great. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Once again, the lesson is "don’t trust Scientific American". It used to be a great magazine... @sciam.bsky.social statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/19/h...

19.12.2024 18:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A gut-wrenching tale of bacteria and immune cells About a recent paper from my lab: Julia S Ngo, Piyush Amitabh, Jonah G Sokoloff, Calvin Trinh, Travis J Wiles, Karen Guillemin, and Raghuveer Parthasarathy, “The Vibrio Type VI Secretion Syst…

A gut-wrenching tale of bacteria and immune cells -- a blog post about a recent paper from my research group. eighteenthelephant.com/2024/11/30/a...

04.12.2024 07:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0