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overcommitted community volunteer, research administrator, public historian, and recovering academic
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Sununu went from being the governor of New Hampshire to being an airline lobbyist?
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Sununu went from being the governor of New Hampshire to being an airline lobbyist?
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Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!
Been a rough year for federally funded scientists, and I hate to add another tab to this spreadsheet. So far, the shutdown has resulted in cancellation of 161 CSR study sections. 🧪https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lLEx14q7HKrlYahQYJaN6aHKpMqSMJwX4aenyL5g_ZU/edit?usp=sharing
2025 Study section tracking
docs.google.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Courtesy of colleagues at Penn
October 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Courtesy of colleagues at Penn
Here is a plot in terms of PROJECTS rather than dollars. I am using projects rather than awards so that projects that received supplements do not get double-counted.
While the FY25 curve is improving, it seems that the number of funded projects will drop by 3000-4000 compared with FY24.
While the FY25 curve is improving, it seems that the number of funded projects will drop by 3000-4000 compared with FY24.
September 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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a lot of these guys really envision a future where technology relieves us of the burden of human experience
August 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
a lot of these guys really envision a future where technology relieves us of the burden of human experience
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Key point: The losses are so large bc the economic benefits of universities to their communities and our country are so great.
That's why possible NIH budget cuts--expertly visualized by SciMAP--are so damaging. Check out their maps ⤵️
scienceimpacts.org
That's why possible NIH budget cuts--expertly visualized by SciMAP--are so damaging. Check out their maps ⤵️
scienceimpacts.org
August 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Key point: The losses are so large bc the economic benefits of universities to their communities and our country are so great.
That's why possible NIH budget cuts--expertly visualized by SciMAP--are so damaging. Check out their maps ⤵️
scienceimpacts.org
That's why possible NIH budget cuts--expertly visualized by SciMAP--are so damaging. Check out their maps ⤵️
scienceimpacts.org
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I cannot keep posting about this silly New England athletic association. Just assume that Harvard is flipflopping, Penn & Columbia are sacrificing students, Dartmouth is pretending neutrality exists during an authoritarian takeover, and the rest are trying to keep theirs heads above water.
July 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I cannot keep posting about this silly New England athletic association. Just assume that Harvard is flipflopping, Penn & Columbia are sacrificing students, Dartmouth is pretending neutrality exists during an authoritarian takeover, and the rest are trying to keep theirs heads above water.
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for the love of fuck
no, I'm not going to rewrite my answer to cater to your unhappiness about "they" pronouns
(only men send emails like this, by the way...)
no, I'm not going to rewrite my answer to cater to your unhappiness about "they" pronouns
(only men send emails like this, by the way...)
July 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
for the love of fuck
no, I'm not going to rewrite my answer to cater to your unhappiness about "they" pronouns
(only men send emails like this, by the way...)
no, I'm not going to rewrite my answer to cater to your unhappiness about "they" pronouns
(only men send emails like this, by the way...)
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Convenient list of places where your donation would go the furthest
New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social
and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.
and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.
Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR
The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Convenient list of places where your donation would go the furthest
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Earlier this year, @wendylrouse.bsky.social was one of the first to sound the alarm about federal censorship of historical work. Today at #AHAPerspectives, she writes about what happened with her own article on the NPS website and the longer history of LGBTQ+ erasure. 🗃️
Confronting the Rainbow Panic
The erasure of LGBTQ+ stories from the National Park Service and other government websites has a long history.
www.historians.org
July 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Earlier this year, @wendylrouse.bsky.social was one of the first to sound the alarm about federal censorship of historical work. Today at #AHAPerspectives, she writes about what happened with her own article on the NPS website and the longer history of LGBTQ+ erasure. 🗃️
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roses are red
peonies are pale
forgive my delay, I was
peonies are pale
forgive my delay, I was
attending to a whale
July 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
roses are red
peonies are pale
forgive my delay, I was
peonies are pale
forgive my delay, I was
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This, but in real life.
July 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This, but in real life.
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Here, see? I teach medieval art. It's great. You'd prefer to read threads like this than another screed about "AI."
1. One of my favorite objects to discuss in class: candlesticks commissioned by Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim before 1022. Conceptually, they're brilliant so I thought I'd walk through some of what I find so ingenious about them. 🧵
July 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Here, see? I teach medieval art. It's great. You'd prefer to read threads like this than another screed about "AI."
It's the end of the evening and I'm pinballing between apps, looking for one tiny hit of joy so I can go to bed, and I mindlessly kick over to bluesky before realizing "oh no, wrong direction." But then I see the top of my feed -- and you know what? Yeah, that's a little ray of hope. I'll take it.
July 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
It's the end of the evening and I'm pinballing between apps, looking for one tiny hit of joy so I can go to bed, and I mindlessly kick over to bluesky before realizing "oh no, wrong direction." But then I see the top of my feed -- and you know what? Yeah, that's a little ray of hope. I'll take it.
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It would be really cool if the Democratic Senate and House minority leaders from New York City stepped up to defend Mamdani from the fascist president threatening him
July 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It would be really cool if the Democratic Senate and House minority leaders from New York City stepped up to defend Mamdani from the fascist president threatening him
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May.
4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
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4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
1/2
June 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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I am on the other side of the world from Los Angeles and I just heard a news grab on our national radio station of Maxine Waters telling a cop "Are you gonna shoot an elected representative? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight" and she remains one of the best to ever do it
June 9, 2025 at 5:06 AM
I am on the other side of the world from Los Angeles and I just heard a news grab on our national radio station of Maxine Waters telling a cop "Are you gonna shoot an elected representative? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight" and she remains one of the best to ever do it
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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
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To trulye builde a beare, you must firste create the universe.
June 6, 2025 at 3:23 AM
To trulye builde a beare, you must firste create the universe.
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Donald Trump, despite being the head of a party that has railed about deficits for decades, is about to pass a budget that increases the debt by $2.4 trillion. This happens whenever Republicans get into office, they reveal that a core tenet of their ideology is a lie.
June 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Donald Trump, despite being the head of a party that has railed about deficits for decades, is about to pass a budget that increases the debt by $2.4 trillion. This happens whenever Republicans get into office, they reveal that a core tenet of their ideology is a lie.
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you’re laughing? the leopards have resorted to cannibalism and you’re LAUGHING?
June 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
you’re laughing? the leopards have resorted to cannibalism and you’re LAUGHING?
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"I asked ChatGPT" well I asked my cat's anus looks like we both did our research
May 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"I asked ChatGPT" well I asked my cat's anus looks like we both did our research
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"The chatbot’s instructions tell it to “de-emphasize the climate catastrophe narrative,” to focus on “real pollution, not CO2.” The bot is told to frame these arguments in the most reasonable possible way"
"chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person:
"chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person:
A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformation
Internal instructions accessed by Canada’s National Observer show that the chatbot produces tailored scripts, petitions, reports and even speeches for council chambers. The messaging is all framed to ...
www.nationalobserver.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"The chatbot’s instructions tell it to “de-emphasize the climate catastrophe narrative,” to focus on “real pollution, not CO2.” The bot is told to frame these arguments in the most reasonable possible way"
"chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person:
"chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person: