Aaron Wolfe
@adwolfe.bsky.social
Postdoc at Yale studying neuronal metabolism.
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.
September 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.
This is probably one of the best retorts I've seen to justifying science anywhere. Taken from here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
September 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This is probably one of the best retorts I've seen to justifying science anywhere. Taken from here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Close call at 39,000 ft.
On the perils of 'vibe coding' through BA WiFi while flying to Nairobi ...
On the perils of 'vibe coding' through BA WiFi while flying to Nairobi ...
August 31, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Close call at 39,000 ft.
On the perils of 'vibe coding' through BA WiFi while flying to Nairobi ...
On the perils of 'vibe coding' through BA WiFi while flying to Nairobi ...
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I offer only this and only once with a huge YMMV caveat:
If people telling you to rage quit are not also inviting you into something — be it their organization, their strategy, their active movement — it isn’t a real call to action. It’s a (maybe righteous) temper tantrum.
If people telling you to rage quit are not also inviting you into something — be it their organization, their strategy, their active movement — it isn’t a real call to action. It’s a (maybe righteous) temper tantrum.
I'm a Columbia PhD. I'm pissed at Columbia. My friends who teach there are furious.
But it's really not simple. Practically every university in the country has a hiring freeze or is only making limited hires. Even in "good years" a vanishingly small # of people can easily find another position.
But it's really not simple. Practically every university in the country has a hiring freeze or is only making limited hires. Even in "good years" a vanishingly small # of people can easily find another position.
The leadership of Columbia University is contemptible Vichy scum. To its professors who stay: that’s who you choose to work for, the obeisance to totalitarianism you choose to promote? To students who stay: those are your values?
July 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I offer only this and only once with a huge YMMV caveat:
If people telling you to rage quit are not also inviting you into something — be it their organization, their strategy, their active movement — it isn’t a real call to action. It’s a (maybe righteous) temper tantrum.
If people telling you to rage quit are not also inviting you into something — be it their organization, their strategy, their active movement — it isn’t a real call to action. It’s a (maybe righteous) temper tantrum.
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One quick trick to identify untrustworthy researchers
July 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
One quick trick to identify untrustworthy researchers
This place is incredible and I highly recommend it!
Puerto Rican eateries are finally getting their due in the national food scene. If you asked Reinaldo Sánchez a decade ago where he’d be now, his answer was not co-owning ice cream shops with his longtime friend, Lorivie Alicea. (via @ctpublic.bsky.social)
Out-of-this-world, James Beard-nominated ice cream shop arrives in New Haven from San Juan
The co-owner of Vía Láctea explains what drew him to plant-based ice cream –– and Connecticut.
n.pr
July 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This place is incredible and I highly recommend it!
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This story should not have been published. They hint at an accusation (Mamdani said he is black to get into a fancy college) they can't back up. That this was published tells me that Mamdani's most important opponent may not be Cuomo or Adams but a paper whose NEWS section will run stuff like this.
You know, when I heard that all of our personal data had been hacked, I didn't expect the first major use of it to be the NYT trying to fuck over Zohran but maybe I'm naive www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...
Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This story should not have been published. They hint at an accusation (Mamdani said he is black to get into a fancy college) they can't back up. That this was published tells me that Mamdani's most important opponent may not be Cuomo or Adams but a paper whose NEWS section will run stuff like this.
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Reminder: go to www.covid.gov, and then ask yourself, if this is what our govt is doing for political propaganda about *science*, what do you think will happen to other topics too?
April 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Reminder: go to www.covid.gov, and then ask yourself, if this is what our govt is doing for political propaganda about *science*, what do you think will happen to other topics too?
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Defence Ministry Update: Border surveillance has not detected any abnormal activity. We stand rock-hop-ready to rock, set to defend ourselves against all threats both foreign and domestic (elephant seals mainly)
April 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Defence Ministry Update: Border surveillance has not detected any abnormal activity. We stand rock-hop-ready to rock, set to defend ourselves against all threats both foreign and domestic (elephant seals mainly)
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Another $2.6 billion in cuts to NIH are coming by next Tuesday
www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/n... The shredded image fits
www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/n... The shredded image fits
Trump administration orders NIH to eliminate $2.6 billion in federal contracts
At a chaotic time, the NIH is given a deadline of April 8 to make a 35% cut in services that may include specimen storage, genetic counseling, and administration.
www.statnews.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Another $2.6 billion in cuts to NIH are coming by next Tuesday
www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/n... The shredded image fits
www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/n... The shredded image fits
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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One big point amid all the headlines: I was texting with press secretary Karoline Leavitt during the event and she confirms that the 34 percent tariff on China is ON TOP of the previous 20 percent. So that means the rate on China will be *54* percent when these tariffs take effect.
April 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
One big point amid all the headlines: I was texting with press secretary Karoline Leavitt during the event and she confirms that the 34 percent tariff on China is ON TOP of the previous 20 percent. So that means the rate on China will be *54* percent when these tariffs take effect.
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james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
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More in "bloodbaths": Per a source, the National Institute on Aging's leadership has been "decimated," including deputy director Amy Kelly and scientific director Luigi Ferrucci.
And apparently acquisitions teams across all of NIH have been fired.
And apparently acquisitions teams across all of NIH have been fired.
NEW: Per a source with knowledge, in a "bloadbath" of firings, communications, legislative, and acquisitions staff at NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases are gone.
April 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
More in "bloodbaths": Per a source, the National Institute on Aging's leadership has been "decimated," including deputy director Amy Kelly and scientific director Luigi Ferrucci.
And apparently acquisitions teams across all of NIH have been fired.
And apparently acquisitions teams across all of NIH have been fired.
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1. Another Friday afternoon massacre of sorts:
NIH just rescinded its Scientific Integrity Policy.
h/t @lizborkowski.bsky.social
NIH just rescinded its Scientific Integrity Policy.
h/t @lizborkowski.bsky.social
NOT-OD-25-080: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health NOT-OD-25-080. OD
grants.nih.gov
March 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
1. Another Friday afternoon massacre of sorts:
NIH just rescinded its Scientific Integrity Policy.
h/t @lizborkowski.bsky.social
NIH just rescinded its Scientific Integrity Policy.
h/t @lizborkowski.bsky.social
How can anything be real if our eyes aren't real
This is going to get quite messy. One can now generate gel and blot images using chatGPT. These kind of prompts were very messy like half a year ago or so. Now it looks very realistic.
March 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
How can anything be real if our eyes aren't real
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✨ Announcing a new glutamate indicator - iGluSnFR4! ✨
Launched as a pair, iGLuSnFR4s and iGluSnFR4f have high-sensitivity and fast activation/deactivation for recording synapses.
More on the indicators and what they are already revealing: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Launched as a pair, iGLuSnFR4s and iGluSnFR4f have high-sensitivity and fast activation/deactivation for recording synapses.
More on the indicators and what they are already revealing: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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March 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
✨ Announcing a new glutamate indicator - iGluSnFR4! ✨
Launched as a pair, iGLuSnFR4s and iGluSnFR4f have high-sensitivity and fast activation/deactivation for recording synapses.
More on the indicators and what they are already revealing: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Launched as a pair, iGLuSnFR4s and iGluSnFR4f have high-sensitivity and fast activation/deactivation for recording synapses.
More on the indicators and what they are already revealing: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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My thoughts on LLMs-as-AGI: I cannot see how throwing the sum total of produced human language can lead to anything smarter than the average human. We're not even selecting for the works of geniuses here, it's mostly just Joe Someguy's random python scripts and thoughts about the weather
March 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
My thoughts on LLMs-as-AGI: I cannot see how throwing the sum total of produced human language can lead to anything smarter than the average human. We're not even selecting for the works of geniuses here, it's mostly just Joe Someguy's random python scripts and thoughts about the weather
I frequently find myself reading up on history these days
"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
www.chronicle.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I frequently find myself reading up on history these days
Both of these shows are exceedingly good at what they intend to do; as a dad, it is the motivations behind them that lead me to prefer one over the other. This article breaks it down well.
Why I love Bluey (and hate Cocomelon)
These are the two most-streamed children's shows. Joe Brumm's personal touch for Bluey trumps Cocomelon's engagement-hacking approach.
www.readtrung.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Both of these shows are exceedingly good at what they intend to do; as a dad, it is the motivations behind them that lead me to prefer one over the other. This article breaks it down well.
Time to stop lurking and introduce myself! I'm a postdoc at Yale studying how varying states of metabolism can affect the functionality of neurons over time. I study this in tiny worms, since their neurons work like ours but they only have 302 of them --a much simpler system to use!
March 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Time to stop lurking and introduce myself! I'm a postdoc at Yale studying how varying states of metabolism can affect the functionality of neurons over time. I study this in tiny worms, since their neurons work like ours but they only have 302 of them --a much simpler system to use!