The Ferrari Lab

Well, I'm shorting Hallmark Channel stock.

how much did they offer him to leave?

a woman is sitting at a table and says the plot thickens ... ALT: a woman is sitting at a table and says the plot thickens ...

go on ...

The pace of scientific publishing is absurdly slow. But sometimes that means you wake up on Monday morning to the acceptance of a paper that was submitted a year and a half ago that you mostly forgot about. So, silver lining and I'll be taking the rest of the day off.

If I've owned the mattress for 15 years, does removal of the tag drop to a misdemeanor?

two pictures of a house, taken from opposite sides. The first, with a label from realtor.com, shows a large blue house from the direction of the garage. The second, from the other side, shows that the ground beneath the main part of the house has collapsed and the structure is in shambles.

It's a truly beautiful property

Coffee run!

A very muddy man standing with a red mountain bike at the finish line of a mountain bike race facing the camera and smiling.

I've been competing in endurance races for 20 years. Some folks are there for podium places. Some folks are just there to get to the end. For 99% of the race, if someone passes you, you encourage them. And if they beat you in the last 1%, you congratulate them after.

We need more of this in life.

Three people in my lab applied for visas for a meeting in India. All with identical itineraries an&d identical letters of invitation. The only difference was citizenship: UK, Canada, US

Only the US was denied. We might have lost our privileged perch.

(or it was totally random, which is possible)

It’s not every day that I need to recite the serenity prayer. But today is not every day.

when someone repeatedly contradicts themselves "I take him at his word" can never be the end of a conversation.

This aligns with "LLMs are as good as a graduate student".

did anyone else hear "bread and pudding countries"?

I'm sure Rose will pull me on to her grant.

all religions?

I'm not one to jump to conspiracy theories. But if I were, the timing of this seems like it would make for a good one.

neither should corn ...

a man is driving a car with another man sitting in the back seat . the man is smiling and pointing at the camera . ALT: a man is driving a car with another man sitting in the back seat . the man is smiling and pointing at the camera .

New York Times Pitchout: Whether it's a massive sexual abuse ring or the unending passage of time, the real problem in America is bi-partisan. Men keep getting older while others just stay the same age.

Wout van Aert explaining to the mayor of Paris on the Tour podium that they kiss 3 times in Belgium, was everything.

when the grocery self check-out can confidently determine that I have indeed "placed the last scanned item in the bagging area" then I *might* feel more comfortable with the machines making health care decisions

This is horrible on so many levels. But as a matter of historical fact, in the case of Tokyo and Berlin, we were actually at war with those countries. Congressionally approved war. IF "we" are going to do this (we shouldn't), then this must be at the discretion of the people via our representatives.

And then you put yourself and your computer on mute ... and started doing something else ... and only noticed after someone had been asking you to introduce yourself for 15 minutes.

Lucy, a brown dog with down ears and a pink nose, curled up on a blue chair and a darker blue blanket. There is a springbok skin over the back of the chair.

Since I'm traveling abroad soon, I think I should start flooding my social media feed with Lucy content to throw of the scent of the AI. Lu

The answer, from my @ciddpsu.bsky.social colleague Dr. Erika Machtinger (quoted in here) is: Yes, depending where you live.

Coverage of great work by my grad student @deepit.bsky.social on a new method to estimate subnational measles vaccination coverage for years without DHS surveys ... little did we know when we started that would be all years going forward.

My mom is a hoping Bill Clinton will "fall on his sword" and spill the beans about Epstein. I don't think it would work. But I'd also make all the popcorn.

I'm not sure if you're aware of the work of the brilliant (and rad) Dr. Holly Dunsworth, who has previously made the case that "even monkeys don't get to f**k whoever they want".

As this science thing is going bust, I'm feeling bullish about pursuing a career in defamation law

Preexisting immunity to the 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus reduces susceptibility to H5N1 infection and disease in ferrets Prior infection with the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus confers protection against H5N1 infection and disease in ferrets.

Exciting new work from my @ciddpsu.bsky.social colleagues showing that pandemic H1N1 immunity reduces susceptibility to H5N1 infection and disease in ferrets.

I had to edit a manuscript with AI generated text and citations. The latter were often hallucinated, had broken links, or were citations of citations that required levels of trace back to find the original source.

So, the coming semester should be fun.