Drug Monkey

Obviously he’s going to pay us to take our prescribed medicines.

Interesting developments.

It appears I am being accused of “smearing” Ebright. But the point of my thread was not to criticize Ebright, but rather to defend him from the new retraction policy. While the key conclusion of the paper was wrong, the paper did contain useful data and some thought-provoking, if incorrect, ideas.

Yep

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

YouTube video by Frank Cruz The Latinization of Los Angeles - KNBC 1982

1982 Emmy Award nominated KNBC News five part series on the growth of the Latino population in Los Angeles. Report is hosted by KNBC Anchor/Reporter Frank Cruz (my FIL).

youtu.be/8ZTn9-I73GM?...

LOLSOB I was in grad school in the biomedical sciences in the 90s: the misogyny was off the charts AND we had so little language to describe it.

So sorry you are going through this.

Nb- not Florida

Needs a beat down. Shoulda just complied.

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I have never in my career successfully renewed an R01. Even when the previous project resulted in >20 publications. Eventually have gotten the projects funded as new submissions on the 5th, or 7th or 9th resubmission, but never "renewed"

Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much

You sent Susan Collins a SPINE???? 🤣😂🤣😂😆

The War on Facts continues apace.

Use common sense to implement policy that flies in the face of common sense.

So he has the Smithsonian straight up lying about the history of impeachments in the US. Now he's going to be giving us false numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And is doing Lysenkoism with our health and food production.

This is a full on Soviet-esque alternative reality he's building.

UCLA is the next one to be targeted for the shakedown racket.

The Loss of Federal Funding is a Loss for America - UCLA Office of the Chancellor Chancellor Frenk shared a message with the Bruin community. Dear Bruin Community:  UCLA received a notice that the federal government, through its control of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the...

Could the story have rec’d more/better coverage - yes, of course, but UCLA Chancellor did post this yesterday:

chancellor.ucla.edu/messages/the...

And @latimes.com :

www.latimes.com/california/s...

This is basically lazy ppl in Grants Management Offices at universities sharing eRA login Signing Official credentials with each other instead of each using their own individual SO credentials???

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Every summer. Like clockwork.

This RFI includes a request for input on the notion of peer review compensation. In case you were not motivated to reply on the publishing costs, this is another issue of importance to some.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

It might clear the full Senate intact. Under House reconciliation though? Let’s hope…

I’ve sat on numerous faculty searches looking at a stack of outstanding candidates. His paper retractions alone would have landed him in the bin.

Happy Pick Up the Reviewing Slack for the Euros Month to those who celebrate.

My quote of the day

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

“Our postdoc mentors said their grad school mentors said never to fund this guy but if we cannot remember the beef maybe we should just give it a good score”

I have always wondered how those A7s went down.

Katie Porter gets the edge in California as Kamala Harris passes on governor's race Five ways Harris’ move is upending the contest.

www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

She'd be a good governor, IMHO.