Theodore Morley

I have rewatched that contraband video so many times, it feels like every frame has something inexplicable in it.

Why is the music like smooth jazz. Why does he say "there are no first amendment rights in your household."

"Your house is open to inspection by your house" what did he mean by this

Truly the way that extremely important guidelines should be decided, huh. Just based on what some guy with no qualifications feels like it should be. Vibes based medical policy.

Large-scale genome-wide analyses of stuttering - Nature Genetics Genome-wide analyses in over one million self-reported cases and controls identify genetic variants associated with stuttering and find genetic correlations with autism, depression and impaired musica...

Stuttering is the most common speech fluency disorder and is as heritable as many common complex traits. Yet, genetic research of stuttering has lagged behind other human traits. In collaboration with #23andme we conducted the first large-scale GWAS of stuttering. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's such an awful phenomenon how vitriolic these people get towards people who are complete strangers to them online...

Fair point

Do any of them actually think they're the most moral? It seems hard for me to believe they can actually convince themselves of that, rather than just knowing that they get a large material reward for being the winner. I suppose the justification could just be for other's opinions.

Thank you Mads! I'm so happy you read it!

Genuinely humiliating, honestly.

My favorite example of this randomness psychology is the hit percentages in Fire Emblem. In the older games (1-5), the percentage chance was generated with 1 random number, and people would constantly say it was unfair/broken. In later games they switched to 2 averaged numbers, and people loved it!

quote on a dark blue and purple background from Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), criticizing proposed cuts to science funding in the FY26 U.S. federal budget. The quote reads: “If enacted, the FY26 budget request would end America’s global scientific leadership. The cuts to science would imperil our nation’s future health, security and prosperity. This budget proposal stands in stark contrast to the President’s call for a renewed commitment to American scientific leadership. Congress has demonstrated a bipartisan commitment to investment in research and must do so again to answer the President’s call.” The quote is attributed to Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of AAAS and Executive Publisher of the Science family of journals. The AAAS logo appears at the bottom right.

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

(inflation adjusted $-s below)

Nothing is out-of-distribution if the distribution is big enough I suppose

This is the missing thing. If you touch real data or real problems enough, it's hard to fool yourself

For context, this is two tickets from Nashville to Montreal.

A price chart for two tickets flying from Nashville to Montreal, showing that the price for similar trips to Montreal (now priced under $600) was over $1000 dollars 60+ days ago.

Flying to #Canada for summer vacation this year to go back and visit friends in Montreal (flying out of Nashville), and the price difference between flying now and a few months ago is stark. Canadians are certainly not flying to the US lately, for obvious reasons. That boycott is definitely hittin.

Congrats!

24 hours with no interventions is insane -- if there's no interventions, does that mean it recovered well from the 0.6% of failures and resumed tasks?

Robotics isn't my field but it's pretty crazy to see how far it's come in just the past decade or so.

The only way it could *not* have users is if everyone suddenly stopped using Google because of them adding AI overview.

Objectively a really funny statement to make about a feature that you literally can't opt out of, which is forced to the top of the search results for the most market-dominant search engine on the planet.

This proposal is a disaster.

It's mind boggling how much this, alongside existing cuts, will irreparably slow the scientific progress of the human race, harm our children's education, and damage our health as a society.

I started playing Blue Prince yesterday too! Great game so far!

That's fair -- I saw that Pineau just left, that has to be a huge loss for meta. Seems like they're going through some major shifts organizationally.

Is this one of those "everything looks exponential from the middle of a sigmoid" type outcomes?

Of course -- everyone has a moral responsibility to speak out and resist fascism!

The aerial pictures looked massive! I had to do a double take when I saw your name pop up in my feed -- I'm Ted from the Yates farm. We had a huge protest in Nashville too, great to see that you were protesting in Boston as well!

Very well attended town hall for @warren.senate.gov in Nashville Tennessee! It's great to see Democrats holding a real town hall in Tennessee to pick up the slack as the Republicans ignore all their constituents.

I've been fascinated by this romanticization for quite a while -- I recently did a bit of writing exploring some possible reasons why it is so prevalent in the US in particular: tjmorley.com/blogposts/co...

A large crowd of protestors in Centennial Park, Nashville TN at the Hands Off 2025 protest

Huge crowd to protest today in Nashville! #HandsOff2025

This is pretty much entirely unrelated to science, I just thought it might be fun to stretch the non-science writing muscles a bit for practice!

I've been thinking of giving some blogging a try, so I wrote about an interesting phenomenon I've noticed over the years of tech workers often fantasizing about quitting their jobs to start a farm or a crafts-based job: tjmorley.com/blogposts/co...