Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of BME, CS, and Biostats at Johns Hopkins Univ., tennis player, @StevenSalzberg1 on Twitter, lab: salzberg-lab.org, Substack blog: stevensalzberg.substack.com
Steven Lloyd Salzberg is an American computational biologist and computer scientist who is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University, where he is also Director of the Center for Computational Biology. .. more
I met Jim Watson a few times but did not know him well. However, I was greatly influenced by his book “The Double Helix”. He was a complicated human being with some very, very bad features, but some good contributions.
What follows is my personal perspective.
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Reposted by Steven L. Salzberg
I met Jim Watson a few times but did not know him well. However, I was greatly influenced by his book “The Double Helix”. He was a complicated human being with some very, very bad features, but some good contributions.
What follows is my personal perspective.
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- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Steven L. Salzberg, Lisa W. Fazio , and 49 more Joanna Bryson, Steven L. Salzberg, Lisa W. Fazio, Nicholas A. Christakis, Will Jennings, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, John De Vos, Gavin A. Schmidt, Delphine K. Farmer, Joshua S. Weitz, Richard Price, Michael A. Clemens, Jonathan Wolff, Steven S. Smith, Jamie Morgan, Diane Ravitch, Philip N. Cohen, Elizabeth Stokoe, Evelyne Schmid, Charles West, Peter Campbell, Michael D. Green, Paul E. Smaldino, Juan Cole, Alison Phipps, Joshua Goodman, Gema Zamarro, Maya Sen, Felicity Callard, Silvia Secchi, McKenzie Wark, Trevor A. Branch, Lauren Hersch Nicholas, Andrew Jacobs, Jacob T. Levy, Margot C. Finn, Scott A. Imberman, Brian Keegan, Thomas Hegghammer, Mark Rice, Brian Weatherson, Susan Strasser, David L. Anderson, Georg Weizsäcker, Alice Marwick, Juan Ramón, Daxton R. Stewart, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Pádua Fernandes, Nick Fisher, Lisa A. Kramer, Kristina McElheran
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
