The subtitle is, of course, a reference to this vital piece of molecular biology. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwBC...

I love (don't love) that this guy has been publicly and cartoonishly dumb about New York City for at least 25 years.

Big news my guy, I used to buy goat at the grocery store in Brooklyn more than a decade ago. The local Jewish deli was also, quite famously, run by a Muslim Yemeni family. NYC rules.

(These are all perfectly valid questions)

Me as a first year grad student in cognitive neuroscience: So then this process maybe involves these parts of the brain?

My PI: Ok, but what do you mean by "process"? Also, what do you mean by "an object"? How are you defining different "parts of the brain"?

Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator premiered 85 years ago today. Here’s a clip for no reason at all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Cz...

Obligatory m.youtube.com/watch?v=1xcS...

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Yeah, I know of at least one of them. I guess I was just being rhetorical, I'm kind of in a daze after that press conference.

It will be very interesting to see who applies for those Autism Data Science Initiative grants...

I have to keep track of all this for work reasons, but if you’d rather not scour the news for the latest in science and higher education happenings…

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Unless you don’t cite my papers, which would be misconduct. Obviously.

If a paper had some misattributed citations in the introduction and faked data in the methods/results, it would be pretty easy for me to say which of those things was “worse”.

Also, nobody calls any of this library work!