Jim Coan

A new preprint showing strong evidence of peer reviewers engaging in transactional peer review as some only approved a manuscript after requesting and then getting cited osf.io/preprints/os...

A statement of no confidence in the Board of Visitors by 141 retired U.Va. faculty Transparency is the foundation of trust, and without trust, the University community will not be able to unite and move forward towards the bright future it deserves.

It really says something about UVa that retired faculty care so much about what happens to this place. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

I truly cannot emphasize enough how this is straight up Lysenkoism.

Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it.

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Again, this was in the early 2000s. The idea that this walking inanity could one day become POTUS would have been laughable, like a headline from The Onion. What interests me is that this would have been just as true of Republicans as Democrats, maybe more so. But here we are.

Cheating at golf was a line my father-in-law would not cross or abide. We'd go to Winged Foot sometimes. I played my one and only game of golf there. Every time we went, my father-in-law would talk about what a cheater Trump was and how literally everybody knew it. To him, Trump was a reliable joke.

Why did he hate Trump so much? Because he was a golfer with a membership at Winged Foot Golf Club (wfgc.org), and Trump was, too. He had run into Trump on several occasions and found him to be "a liar and an idiot." Trump had a well known and well earned reputation for cheating and bloviating.

I've never told this story because it involves mildly intimate life details, but here goes. In the early 2000s, in what you might call a past life, I was married to a lovely person from a wealthy family in Greenwich, CT. Her father was ardently Republican. He was also an enthusiastic Trump hater.

Among all the weird takes that seem to be popular online, the one that always gets me is that studying STEM somehow morally corrupts people and the solution is to make people additionally go through a humanities and/or social science curriculum at the university level.

Circle of Willis

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Ugh

Tsunami Warning in Effect for; * ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, Samalga Pass, Alaska (30 miles SW of Nikolski) to Attu, Alaska including the Pribilof Islands Tsunami Advisory in Effect for; * SOUTH ALASKA AND THE ALASKA PENINSULA, Pacific coasts from Chignik Bay, Alaska to Unimak Pass, Alaska (80 miles NE of Unalaska) * ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, Unimak Pass, Alaska (80 miles NE of Unalaska) to Samalga Pass, Alaska (30 miles SW of Nikolski) Tsunami Watch in Effect for; * CALIFORNIA, The coast from The Cal./Mexico Border to The Oregon/Cal. Border including San Francisco Bay * OREGON, The coast from The Oregon/Cal. Border to The Oregon/Wash. Border including the Columbia River estuary coast * WASHINGTON, Outer coast from the Oregon/Washington border to Slip Point, Columbia River estuary coast, and the Juan de Fuca Strait coast * BRITISH COLUMBIA, The north coast and Haida Gwaii, the central coast and northeast Vancouver Island, the outer west coast of Vancouver Island, the Juan de Fuca Strait coast * SOUTHEASI ALASKA, The inner and outer coast from The BC/Alaska Border to Cape Fairweather, Alaska (80 miles SE of Yakutat) * SOUTH ALASKA AND THE ALASKA PENINSULA, Pacific coasts from Cape Fairweather, Alaska (80 miles SE of Yakutat) to tsunami.gov

* SOUTH ALASKA AND THE ALASKA PENINSULA, Pacific coasts from Cape Fairweather, Alaska (80 miles SE of Yakutat) to Chignik Bay, Alaska PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS - UPDATED * The following parameters are based on a rapid preliminary assessment of the earthquake and changes may occur. * Magnitude * Origin Time * Coordinates * Depth * Location Komandorski 8.7 1525 AKDT Jul 29 2025 1625 PDT Jul 29 2025 2325 UTC Jul 29 2025 52.2 North 160.0 East 46 miles 315 miles SW of Bering I., 80 miles SE of Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka FORECASTS OF TSUNAMI ACTIVITY -------------------=---====-| * Isunami activity is forecasted to start at the following locations at the specified times. FORECAST START SITE ---- OF TSUNAMI ---------- * Alaska Shemya Adak Unalaska Saint Paul Sand Point Cold Bay Kodiak Seward Elfin Cove Yakutat Sitka Valdez Cordova Homer Craig 1640 AKDI Jul 29 1740 AKDT Jul 29 1845 AKDT Jul 29 1855 AKDT Jul 29 1925 AKDT Jul 29 2000 AKDT Jul 29 2020 AKDI Jul 29 2045 AKDT Jul 29 2050 AKDI Jul 29 2055 AKDT Jul 29 2055 AKDT Jul 29 2105 AKDT Jul 29 2115 AKDT Jul 29 2140 AKDT Jul 29 2155 AKDT Jul 29 * British Columbia Langara 2205 PDT Jul 29 Tofino 2330 PDT Jul 29 tsunami.gov

FORECAST START OF TSUNAMI illlillill SITE ---- * Alaska Shemya Adak Unalaska Saint Paul Sand Point Cold Bay Kodiak Seward Elfin Cove Yakutat Sitka Valdez Cordova Homer Craig 1640 AKDT Jul 29 1740 AKDT Jul 29 1845 AKDT Jul 29 1855 AKDT Jul 29 1925 AKDT Jul 29 2000 AKDT Jul 29 2020 AKDT Jul 29 2045 AKDT Jul 29 2050 AKDT Jul 29 2055 AKDT Jul 29 2055 AKDT Jul 29 2105 AKDT Jul 29 2115 AKDT Jul 29 2140 AKDT Jul 29 2155 AKDT Jul 29 * British Columbia Langara 2205 PDT Jul 29 Tofino 2330 PDT Jul 29 * Washington La Push Neah Bay Long Beach Moclips Westport Port Angeles Port Townsend Bellingham Tacoma 2335 2340 2345 2350 2355 0020 0045 0110 0200 PDT Jul 29 PDT Jul 29 PDT Jul 29 PDT Jul 29 PDT Jul 29 PDT Jul 30 PDT Jul 30 PDT Jul 30 PDT Jul 30 * Oregon Port Orford Charleston Brookings Seaside Newport 2340 2345 2350 2355 2355 PDT Jul 29 PDT Jul 29 PDT Jul 29 PDT Jul 29 PDT Jul 29 * California Fort Bragg 2350 PDT Jul 29 Crescent City 2355 PDT Jul 29 Monterey 0015 PDT Jul 30 Port San Luis 0035 PDT Jul 30 San Francisco Santa Barbara 0040 PDT Jul 30 0050 Los Angeles Harb 0105 PDT Jul 30 PDT Jul 30 Newport Beach 0110 PDT Jul 30 Oceanside 0115 La Jolla PDT Jul 30 0115 PDT Jul 30 tsunami.gov

Please check tsunami bulletins for your area as they are extensive

People getting bent out of shape when Roy mentions prayer really don't understand that the backbone of the Democratic coalition in the South are Black voters. Those are the people who go to church. And tons of white swing voters in North Carolina are Christians. And Roy's a Sunday School teacher.

Lundbeck Foundation Postdoc Grant – Type 2 Overview (2025 Call) Lundbeck Foundation Postdoc Grant – Type 2 Overview (2025 Call) Who: Researchers currently based outside Denmark who wish to move and conduct postdoctoral research at a Danish institution. Applicants ...

Are you an ECR in the US? Thinking about moving to Europe? If you work on computational psychiatry, neuroscience, metacognition, or brain-body interaction, I’d love to support your application for a Lundbeck Fellowship to join our group this fall.

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I didn't know I needed the new Billy Joel documentary NPR critic Linda Holmes has been a Billy Joel fan since the '80s. HBO's new two-part documentary still taught her something new about his life — and provided a chance to consider the role of his music in her own.

NPR critic @lindaholmes.bsky.social has been a Billy Joel fan since the '80s. HBO's new two-part documentary still taught her something new about his life — and provided a chance to consider the role of his music in her own.

A new analysis projects a 24% cut to Social Security benefits by late 2032. Trump's "big, beautiful bill" will cause sharp cuts to Social Security by late 2032, a new analysis says.

🚨 #SocialSecurity is on the chopping block. Thanks to Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” retirees are now staring down $18,000-a-year benefit cut in just seven years. Seniors who paid in their whole lives are left holding the bag.
– $13,600 cut for a typical retired couple.

Magic

#ComeAtMe if you must (I’m ready for you), but first listen carefully to his performance on Separate Ways (Worlds Apart). From there, try to figure out what he's even doing (besides making magic) on Don't Stop Believin'. These old songs were so much more than arena rock.

What set Journey’s Steve Smith apart from his peers wasn’t his technical wizardry so much as his musicality—his first priority is the song. He’s like the lovechild of Neil Peart and Ringo Starr, raised by Paul Motian.

I mean, both men are nonwhite, with parents variably from India, Uganda, Korea and Mexico. One grew up with stable and highly educated parents, the other in poverty and foster care.

I am trying to understand how any attorney in the universe, much less one for the president of the United States, could make the argument that an exclusive article is not meant to be disseminated

a panel from a comic by Matt Groening, depicting one of his weird rabbit dudes looking slightly disoriented against a black background. the panel is labeled, "1990s", and a speech bubble appears from off-screen that reads, "BY BEING THE SAME AS REPUBLICANS WE CAN DEFEAT THE REPUBLICANS."

I for one would like to stop being trapped in a Matt Groening panel from 1996

Tedious to point this out, but:

- When a tongue-tied Biden said "President of Mexico" instead of "Prez of Egypt," it was a several day story.

-Hours after Trump says whoever appointed J Powell made a big mistake (it was him), the episode appears not to merit a story on any national-media sites.

Happy Superman Day!

‘SUPERMAN’ review embargo lifts today at 3PM ET.

#Superman #DCU

One week. #LookUp #Superman

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FEMA won't go door-to-door because ICE wants that budget to go door-to-door

I just left the Senate floor after speaking out against the Big Ugly Bill.

It breaks my heart that this is what we’ve come to as a Senate — and as a country.

A more honest take than 'no policymaker cares if your paper is published in Nature' is 'most policymakers probably care on some level, but won't understand your paper whether it's in Nature or not'.

This causes a lot of tension, shame and waste. Our challenge is how do we best assist policymakers?

Markers and mechanisms. I mean, does the distinction *really* matter?

Remember kids: sorting studies on the basis of methodological rigor is NOT “cherry picking.”