Charles Isbell

Charles Isbell

@isbellhfh.bsky.social

Computationalist. Professor. Provost. I also am and do a lot of other stuff.

400 Followers 22 Following 29 Posts Joined Jul 2023
10 months ago

The best ones also being colleagues and collaborators

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10 months ago
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NSF eliminates external advisory committees Committees of experts advised the agency on everything from funding priorities to proposal evaluation

With everything happening at the NSF, you might have missed that they also dissolved 12 of their advisory committees last week.

The committees helped ensure that the NSF supported important science and did so effectively.

More context from me @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

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10 months ago

Perfect and well done!

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11 months ago

It’s just an expression people! I’ve heard it my whole life and I’m not even a scion of a powerful family from New England or something.

Also, you know, the whole no souls thing.

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11 months ago
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The End of College Life If they persist, Donald Trump’s attacks on universities will destroy a cornerstone of American life.

The American college experience—earning a degree to join the middle class while coming of age on a pastoral campus with sororities and sports—may be over.

Trump's attacks on higher ed impact much more than just Columbia or scientific research. They put the whole idea of college at risk.

My story:

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1 year ago

I am getting annoyed.

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1 year ago

I am still tickled that we named it Call Me Ishmail.

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1 year ago

I cannot argue with you. I was unsure about the series when it was announced, but man did it knock it out of the park.

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1 year ago

Yes, but what did you think of the HBO sequel?

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1 year ago

The version with the pirate comic woven in is fantastic. It’s basically the original series come to life—for good and for ill—but with a slightly more reasonable unifying threat.

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1 year ago

I suspect this is a deeply under appreciated point.

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1 year ago

The answer was yes something I’m pretty sure was in everyone’s best interest.

It remains true that it is in everyone’s best interest here.

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1 year ago

Terrible isn’t the right word, but I know what you mean, and I love watching them over and over.

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1 year ago
A blue, red and yellow Roma adidas tracksuit

Electricity 110
Groceries 300
Roma tracksuits 111,000

Can someone who knows how to budget help me my family is dying

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1 year ago

Just hot dogs, or all sandwiches?

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1 year ago

Okay, so seriously, why can’t you people make good versions of these things for the iPad.

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1 year ago

But how will I accidentally get sucked into the world of academic Econ over here?

How?!

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1 year ago

That would be nice. Let’s make it happen.

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1 year ago

So. What’s happening? I’ve been out of town.

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2 years ago

Hey. What have I missed?

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2 years ago

I’d think so but this seems to be moving awfully fast.

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2 years ago

Do you expect a backlash or not?

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2 years ago

It’s quite consistent with who he is. Frankly I see BvS (especially the uncut version) as a kind of reverse arc of The Dark Knight Returns.

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2 years ago

Y’all are crazy. I saw it. It was really good.

Am I’m going to scream to the world you must see it? No. Was it worth watching? Yes. Will I watch it again when it’s streaming? Almost certainly.

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2 years ago

wut

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2 years ago

3+ hour walking history tour of Munich covering the history of the Nazi regime.

We would all be better off if we’d cover and internalize our histories like the Germans do, rather than try to avoid them.

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2 years ago

The great sort has gone all the way down. I am sad.

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2 years ago

I need an iPad native version of this app… stat!

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2 years ago

I guess they genuinely misunderstood what the blue check meant.

Something something projection.

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2 years ago

I’m not getting replies, likes, followers. Must be censorship. Oooh, $8 and they have to see me?

Why aren’t I getting more replies, likes, followers?

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