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by strangeloops85 2y ago
Letting go of all probationary employees (hired in the last year) is precisely the wrong way to do any of this. I suspect we will also be hearing about the long time experts that are the only ones who maintain or know about certain systems
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Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists(nytimes.com)
5 points by strangeloops85 2y ago|2 comments
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by strangeloops85 2y ago
Political appointees including the IRS commissioner have never had direct access to the system before given its sensitivity. There are likely legal ramifications that will be worked through the courts on this.
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by strangeloops85 2y ago
So the White House (where doge sits) has direct access to anyone’s tax returns. I assume this can be used to blackmail or threaten anyone they don’t like? Imagine the outcry if the Biden White House had tried to do this, especially because
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DOGE member previously fired by cybersecurity firm for leaking company secrets(bloomberg.com)
97 points by strangeloops85 2y ago|65 comments
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by strangeloops85 2y ago
If you're having a team going into every bit of government data, you might want to vet them. Beyond eugenicists and racists, if they're getting anywhere close to SCIFs, make sure they fill out that SF-86 accurately. And maybe even
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NOAA to have 50% reduction in staff and 30% budget cut(cbsnews.com)
26 points by strangeloops85 2y ago|3 comments
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by strangeloops85 2y ago
Independent of whether these goals are appropriate or not, these actions (and those of so many other companies) are just so predictably craven. These executive orders (and what "DEIA" exactly means or constitutes, legally speaking
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by strangeloops85 2y ago
Have Elon Musk and all these engineers sworn oaths as required to be a federal employee? https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2019/10/the-oath-o... If Elon is "just advising", under what statut
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by strangeloops85 2y ago
Who knows? The executive orders read like they were written by children and don't clearly define what they mean by "DEIA". But NSF's authorization is from Congress. Unless congress passes a law rescinding this as a part
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by strangeloops85 2y ago
While everyone is focusing on the so-called 'DEI' part, please note that per this article they are also targeting "environmentally friendly technologies". This is incredibly broad and could de-fund a broad array of funda
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by strangeloops85 2y ago
This is disingenuous: there is no "DEI" component of NSF proposals. There is a Broader Impacts section which is mandated by law - the America Competes Act of 2010, which congress passed. https://www.congress.gov/11
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by strangeloops85 2y ago
The fact that you can pay to have your replies higher (plus the suppression of posts with links) on X are part of this. The other reality is that for me and my community / friends who used to be active on Twitter.. they're just no
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by strangeloops85 3y ago
$10M/ year seems unusually high, even for med schools - are you sure those are annualized costs? Perhaps it's because I'm familiar with the more basic science (non clinical trial) parts of NIH, but a typical R01 is $250K-$500
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by strangeloops85 3y ago
$1M / year is on the upper end in the engineering school I'm at (average faculty brings in less than half that). I mostly have Ph.D. students (as do most people in my field) that cost ~$100K/ year incl. overhead, or postdocs
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by strangeloops85 3y ago
Yes. Very expensive. h-index > 35. It varies. Both. ~$0.5-1M/year. Sure. Yes, and vice versa for my spouse as well.
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by strangeloops85 3y ago
What exactly does 'truly successful' mean here? If Nobel prize is the standard that's ridiculous. As someone who is a fairly successful (by conventional metrics) tenured academic at a top-10 school in the physical sciences, t
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by strangeloops85 3y ago
I think Xerox has been trying to unload PARC for a while, and this just seems like a way for them to do it and get a tax write-off since it's a 'donation'. PARC has already been doing a lot of government contract work, and I&
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by strangeloops85 3y ago
As an academic editor for a society journal this is ridiculous. Most of this process is automated and takes a grand total of 15 mins of time. Also, Nature charging $10k for open access while PLOS charges more like $2k should tell you what’s
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by strangeloops85 3y ago
The costs are minimal to handle rejected submissions. Most of the work is done by reviewers. And no it doesn’t cost that much.. that’s the rate with a fat 50% margin, corresponding to the massive profits Elsevier rakes in. It’s just a tax o
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by strangeloops85 3y ago
This basic idea was demonstrated by some groups at MIT in 2016: https://www.nature.com/articles/nnano.2015.309 MIT news article about it: https://news.mit.edu/2016/nanophotonic-incandescent-light-b
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by strangeloops85 4y ago
He admitted to publishing a paper with authors he didn’t know.. and which external evidence suggests had authorship for sale. These people are a disaster for science..
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by strangeloops85 4y ago
“We are not going to distribute this material, considering the proprietary nature of our processes and the intellectual property rights that exist.” The fact that they are going to making independent verification impossible makes me highly
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by strangeloops85 4y ago
There is absolutely no connection. Carbon dating and genetics alone disprove any such connection.
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by strangeloops85 4y ago
You could just look this up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island - it's all pretty well understood at this point. Rapa Nui arrived between 300 and 1200CE, from eastern Polynesian islands (Cook and/or
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by strangeloops85 4y ago
As entertaining as they are, unfortunately these conspiracy theories are usually a bit racist since they deny agency to the actual cultures that have made this monumental architecture. Which is to say, the implicit comment in many of these
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by strangeloops85 4y ago
Telling the emperor he has no clothes only works if he has any self awareness..
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by strangeloops85 4y ago
Well if there was a vaccine that reduced the risk of dying from drowning I think you’d definitely want to add it to the childhood vaccination schedule. Again, death rate is not the only metric by which we decide what to vaccinate children f
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by strangeloops85 4y ago
Nope, this isn’t true. If a kid comes to a hospital due to an accident and tests Covid positive and dies, that would not be counted. It is ultimately the judgment of the physician (as is the case for illnesses in general since a judgment is
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by strangeloops85 4y ago
The arguments they make regarding children's vaccines don't make much sense to me. The end target for the pediatric vaccine trials was immunobridging, which has widely been used for other common childhood vaccines. Are they arguin

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