Maybe they’ll fix the HVAC in Bldg. 53 now.

With 27 institutes and centers, each with its own labyrinthine bureaucracy, there certainly are efficiencies to be realized. However, you can’t foster and fund great science on the cheap and this seems more about imposing political control over the institution than improving it.

Ah, then “bad Juju,” although I’m sure that term is…inappropriate.

“Inappropriate” was the term most often used on me, back when my professional behavior was subject to criticism. It was also the first 5 syllable word in my daughter’s vocabulary. What’s the Q-word?

I trained in the pre-Libby Zion, every third, era and that book certainly captured the moment. It gave me some laughs at the time and some clinical aphorisms which have stayed with me. I hope most of that culture is gone, but the experience was certainly formative.

Young scientists seem better at everything except writing than I was at any comparable stage. My and my trainees' productivity has fallen over 3 decades in proportion to the increase in regulatory resistance to human subjects research. A good place for some thoughtful Yimbyism. #neuroskyence #medsky