Really enjoyed sitting for this interview with the Rudolphina science magazine. Thanks for some excellent questions, @lfreese.bsky.social!
rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/what-rese...
This is really interesting!
An American-made hunger crisis. A worsening cholera epidemic.
Our reporters journeyed to some of the places most devastated by Trump’s dismantling of foreign aid.
They spoke to hundreds of people who witnessed and experienced how political appointees cut programs in arbitrary ways:
Humbly suggest this is for the same reason (I suspect) that some local papers cover the chamber of commerce so closely — editors need content and any news announced via press release is low-hanging fruit
My lab at UW Madison is hiring a new lab manager! I’m looking for a motivated and detail-oriented person to help run the lab’s day-to-day, including our ongoing neuroimaging and behavioral studies. This is especially well suited for graduating undergrads thinking about grad school. Link below
Hey... that's me! Extremely happy to be here---in a city and department that have so far exceeded all hype.
As a reviewer, something like a one-tailed test makes me suspect the *hypothesis* is post-hoc
I don’t disagree! Given a directional H, the two-tailed test feels exploratory. Also agree that effect sizes and CIs should allay all doubts.
Still, I think it’s fair to raise eyebrows. Dropping a tail off the test post-hoc is a very easy way to make p-value go brrr
but unless preregistered, they certainly inflate QRP suspicions…
I’m proud to say I was tear gassed repeatedly during the first Trump administration… and this refreshingly creative piece perfectly captures the experience and its implications.
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
What else is there
Inspiring — it’s never too late to become your best (physically largest) self.
Remember concluding at a GWAR show that people just like to be touched.
A good complement to the very misleading take that (some) science funding may soon be restored.
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
It felt to me more like an action movie with horror elements. Selling point should be the movie’s very cool musical sequences.
This is not just the best-reported story I’ve seen about USAID, it’s also written with a sensitivity worthy of literature. This sentence in particular broke me:
“Less than halfway into the journey, long after they had stopped reassuring one another that she would be OK, Nyarietna died.”
My wife and I both had our careers effectively nuked by DOGE this year. It’s been a nightmare for us and thousands of other Americans.
This analysis is welcome but maddening — all of our pain and fear served to make these “cuts” look and feel meaningful…. but they weren’t.
14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
post a movie from where you are from
Recall a similar observation being made after Hurricane María devastated Puerto Rico — hurricanes don’t just kill with wind and rain, but also (and mostly) through power outages, displacement, and fracturing of support networks.
...but Rivian is not going under?
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A remarkable policy insight buried in here: India (part of WHO's SE Asia), mandates that health warnings should accompany ANY display of tobacco use... including characters in films and TV shows.
Admin seems to understand that outbreaks only matter politically if voters understand their origin and scale. If illness comes unexpectedly and seemingly at random, disease becomes a personal problem.
Extremely good news
The number of tobacco users has dropped from 1.38 billion in 2000 to 1.2 billion in 2024. Since 2010, the number of people using tobacco has dropped by 120 million – a 27% drop in relative terms. @who.int @ashorguk.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk #LungSky #RespEd www.who.int/publications... /n
Really appreciate this paper — an impactful, timely, and straightforward look at the potential impacts of major cuts to the world’s largest source of scientific funding.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
