Evan A. Warfel

Just learned that the entire division of blood disorders at the CDC was put on administrative leave or terminated effective immediately.

The people who figured out HIV was infecting people through the blood supply.

What could possibly go wrong?

graph of NIH basisfor new drugs

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Tweet by @DataRepublican: "In my initial run, which processed the first 60,000 rows, I did not find these awards—my hard drive overheated long before I could complete a full pass through the database. In a later run, which I referenced in another post, I did identify two such awards. That discrepancy is a matter of sampling size, not an issue with the query itself. I’ll now attempt a full run, which should capture the awards you found."

Elon Musk's favorite supposed data expert, who he's retweeted at least a dozen times, claims she can only process 60,000 rows of data before her "hard drive overheats"

The Association for Research in Personality is soliciting abstracts for the 2025 Biennial Meeting scheduled to take place June 26-28, 2025 in Evanston (suburb of Chicago), IL, USA!

Saw this news just after doing a post on Trump/Musk disastrous war on NOAA and NWS.

fallows.substack.com/p/killing-pe...

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

*Hmm, no wonder those A16Z "technical briefing papers" sounded ever more surreal, Martian and Trumpian

*Who needs the tech when you've got the coup #oligarchy

www.citationneeded.news/issue-77/

Mass Layoffs Begin at NOAA The cuts came just before a separate wave of departures was expected under the Trump administration’s so-called deferred resignation program.

Another link in the accident chain that will lead to the next airline crashes.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/c...

Unbelievable news.

Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers.

New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨

It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax.

This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types.

Check it out!

grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
theonion.com/think-t...

Dune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues

Ørsted's largest solar farm in the world is now online in Texas Ørsted's largest solar project globally is now online in Texas, next to protected prairie donated by the renewable energy giant.

Huge 0.468 GW solar PV farm opens in Texas

Orsted also donates 953 acres of nearby grassland to the Nature Conservancy

electrek.co/2024/11/22/o...

Do personality traits co-develop in family contexts?

The short answer is a) not reliably for parents and children, but b) yes for parents and their spouses.

I'm excited to share the pre-print of my first first-author paper with many more details: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Infinite Growth Forever:
global-tetrahedron.com