Peter Onyisi

Unlike everyone else, *my* practice of science was always strictly apolitical

I do find it mildly fascinating that there are scientists whose response to "we're going to review proposals for alignment with the president's desires" is "could have avoided it if only Harvard hadn't admitted too many black students"

A request to "clean up exterior windows and doors" asking for "personal items like signage", "equipment" (with a weird desk exception), and "decorative items" to be removed from "windows and glass doors" by August 11. It would appear to be some panic bureaucratic response to a complaint from someone, as they admit there is no actual formal policy they can point to.

I am curious to know who is putting desks in their windows?

Punch card from Fricano's Deli that was still in my wallet

Lost treasures

sure, whatever, we'll take it

Just telling it like it is

(pleasant chimes) United 252 to Houston is now boarding at gate 25

Also discrimination has no place in our sport and if these chants continue, who knows, we might stop the game a bit

Nobody admits to liking the barcode but they all want to wear the barcode #AustinFC

United States: it is vital that we safeguard our research secrets for national security and economic competitiveness!

Also United States: supporting research that would enhance national security and economic competitiveness isn't really our thing, actually

A green rubber chicken.

Delayed: Pollo in DC

diamond, emerald, sapphire, ruby, opal, amethyst labubish things

wake up babe, new oneworld status tiers just dropped

It appears that the LHC saw itself shake around the beams at that time

Oh, and the State of Texas, I guess

Part 4: avoiding international collaborations because of the reporting burdens we've put on them is Inconsistent With Core Values. You can't discriminate against foreign researchers because of their nationality! Only funding agencies and university admins can do that

Gibberish

ChatGPT, what is a Collaboration?

Step 1: only work with Good Actors

"your devices may be subject to search and seizure when you cross international borders" I have news for you which country I consider most likely to try to go on a fishing expedition with my laptop when crossing a border

"the sharing of unfinished findings has risks, in that they can be used by a competing lab to advance a first publication of similar work," they helpfully inform scientists

"the aim is to reduce the burden to researchers" ho ho ho

After 15 minutes, finally a case study! Perhaps we can learn how improperly filling out these forms is a threat to national security!

Training: of course not, the case study is "this guy made bad disclosures and was sent to jail", we're certainly not going to say how the country was put at risk

Two women meeting in a corridor and saying "did you see the materials our research security office just put out to the university?" to each other, as one does

Enormous number of words spilled to retroactively justify the China Initiative

The trouble is all inside your head, she said to me/ It really is easy to achieve research security

This says nothing

Taking federally-mandated "research security training" and I'm not sure I've ever seen anything so full of insulting bureaucratic emptiness

El Three #AustinFC

It's rather funny how for a lot of people Arlington, VA is code for "expensive single family housing neighborhoods" and for me it means "garden apartments"

They did chant "Pollo Libre" after every goal

DC United 2-4 Austin FC

Glad I came to the ball game

Perhaps merit-based decisions will finally let us stop having to hear from Larry Summers

Remembering my father’s Biafra: The politics of erasing history Decades after the Nigeria-Biafra war, the truth of what happened is denied, so we forfeit the chance to learn from it.

"Estimates of the death toll vary – with some putting it at more than one million and others at more than two...Some died as a result of the fighting but most from hunger and disease after the Nigerian government imposed a land and sea blockade"

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