2025-03-03T00:22:43Z https://yabu.me Geoffrey Adams https://yabu.me/npub173cc2e8pazyxn56fn9369cltf2uxu60mtt33mnnv5sg6fs5uh3rs5x9tun https://mefisocial.files.fedi.monster/accounts/avatars/109/391/845/391/693/831/original/401368b8c8924087.png https://mefisocial.files.fedi.monster/accounts/avatars/109/391/845/391/693/831/original/401368b8c8924087.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9sets89nsx8hnzaugpmjeq6pf397erw7hgqnszmkt7dphay5076szyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7ywd3m58h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx375fp68xsy9p0kg89wn48lu6pc6uesn7ml8sftjjut02pk4vf4synuqtg'>nevent1q…uqtg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Just looking at them, I can hear the sound they must be making. 2025-03-09T21:57:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9yvry8yv69h2lcd275hrgmnetwzd04j3de0yak0gr5a423jqe3rszyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7yw0pzg4q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvurw7um0xe5kd7mgvn3z2tuy3r7ucc58lxu3358mekgjk0h7k4wcew6r0e'>nevent1q…6r0e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I awoke this morning from a dream in which ICE suddenly appeared to take away someone I had just sold a piece of scrap aluminum to, and I was furious and ashamed that there was nothing I could do to stop them. And that&#39;s been on my mind all day. I don&#39;t know if it&#39;s better or worse to have remembered this one. 2025-02-23T22:39:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8jp5tzcaw77rgwy3pkdtpp32xpg0xh8lc4wvhgkxq54k20nurvmgzyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7ywvw09p6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstudu0gfwmea0p8928gp5a2r8qed0vv2awgx9g6xgdukywm27379cecy4sq'>nevent1q…y4sq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That&#39;s 24000 *thousand*, or 24,000,000, or 24 million. 2025-02-22T22:40:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszph2u2gcwrx94rwqvefvf40up3dvl4vhvr2frhwx5a29pu4ehhvgzyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7yw3rxnxm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsddy5h0zwqncr9wcw92895unej7wrqljdxh3dc5urhsaxf3e03ntgvm3p9e'>nevent1q…3p9e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I just decided that it&#39;s actually the best part of the candy, made my life much easier. 2025-02-14T12:47:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspztxt60grrz8dea8rata7tcq46mkmttvljgerkm25pmzyzwhud0qzyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7ywn6fpl5 Of the major news websites I&#39;ve checked, only the Associated Press has any mention of the thousands of people protesting across the country right now. Others apparently find it more newsworthy to talk about who is getting a new show on Fox News.<br/><br/>Pathetic.<br/><br/><a href="https://apnews.com/">https://apnews.com/</a><br/><br/>#USPol 2025-02-05T23:26:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr9xlqxskdt4k3zj9qx0v9kuy85w5wqc68zyqv595n44yqcsyku9szyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7ywu59zgf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswd446nyw8r5ppf7avnvac3vqzc90emz7n530me875gfwvlqzlsns85rxhy'>nevent1q…rxhy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Update: I have just seen this article from Science Magazine, which confirms the story and also provides additional information about how NIH&#39;s intramural program (the research conducted by government employees, generally considered one of the most prestigious biomedical research institutes in the world) has been impacted.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-hits-nih-devastating-freezes-meetings-travel-communications-and-hiring">https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-hits-nih-devastating-freezes-meetings-travel-communications-and-hiring</a> 2025-01-23T03:47:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswd446nyw8r5ppf7avnvac3vqzc90emz7n530me875gfwvlqzlsnszyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7ywz8g0g4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgw03hetqjqaqaa606u5yfkyqa25szvgsv699s8k5snx3g54addec7v5x5e'>nevent1q…5x5e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If you are an American citizen, please pay attention to this news as it develops, and consider contacting your senators and representatives to tell them to put pressure on NIH and the Executive to allow grant reviews to resume. Biomedical research saves and improves lives. We all know people affected by cancer, or Alzheimer&#39;s disease, or drug addiction, or long covid. Let&#39;s not give up on them, let&#39;s not give up on ourselves.<br/><br/>6/6 2025-01-23T01:17:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgw03hetqjqaqaa606u5yfkyqa25szvgsv699s8k5snx3g54addeczyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7yw4qaf69 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2dzrkfdw9xyklg9uxezjyy5gg63wlkhz0nqu2fazm3tfykhzprps38pd3l'>nevent1q…pd3l</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Academic scientists structure their lives around the NIH grant cycle. Gaps in funding for graduate students and postdocs can mean that people who we&#39;ve invested years of public money into training to become biomedical researchers will have to leave the field. Some people may have to close productive labs. Research into life changing treatments and the basic knowledge that will drive the next generation of these treatments will be delayed or halted. Some scientists will likely consider moving their labs to countries with more stable funding environments.<br/><br/>5/6 2025-01-23T01:17:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2dzrkfdw9xyklg9uxezjyy5gg63wlkhz0nqu2fazm3tfykhzprpszyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7ywjxvlz6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0qc2zlhujcke9h73xenhkvpn746fd7s0h9kzj7gmz9a6pa3l2ztqen9hm0'>nevent1q…9hm0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There are currently reports that NIH has just abruptly suspended all study sections, including some that were already in progress, as a result of executive orders prohibiting external communication by NIH employees. I haven&#39;t seen definitive confirmation of this yet but it&#39;s a weird thing to turn out to just be a rumor.<br/><br/>4/6 2025-01-23T01:17:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0qc2zlhujcke9h73xenhkvpn746fd7s0h9kzj7gmz9a6pa3l2ztqzyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7yw5phwjc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstnfxx5f4k338f7umzsqeq3vyhwsxvepeq45v9zda9mnllzy0p0ssycvcs8'>nevent1q…vcs8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>For the same reason, it&#39;s impossible for NIH to internally possess all of the expertise to competently review every proposed project. The solution to this is Study Sections. NIH invites scientists (generally people who are themselves funded NIH extramural researchers) to participate in a Study Section, which reviews grant applications responding to a specific funding announcement (NIH-identified research priority). Each reviewer assigns each application a score, and the top-scored applications are then considered for funding.<br/><br/>It is not a perfect system, and I think every NIH-funded researcher has some complaints about how it works. But it&#39;s the system we have, and on the whole the past 50+ years of biomedical research in the US show that it basically works pretty well.<br/><br/>3/6 2025-01-23T01:17:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstnfxx5f4k338f7umzsqeq3vyhwsxvepeq45v9zda9mnllzy0p0sszyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7ywqccel4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstmh7lf9lpvcav7zxu895x36mudrx4duxngrfxjkp7vffv8jsnyhc56xpwd'>nevent1q…xpwd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The reason for this approach is that while non-scientists in a democracy can and should set the overall goals for spending public money on biomedical research, only expert scientists have the knowledge to formulate projects that can advance those goals. And the diversity of biomedical research problems mean that the necessary expertise can never be completely housed within NIH, so it&#39;s better to let experts compete with each other to produce the best proposals for meeting those goals.<br/><br/>2/6 2025-01-23T01:16:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstmh7lf9lpvcav7zxu895x36mudrx4duxngrfxjkp7vffv8jsnyhczyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7yw42fdnj NIH Study Sections are how the US government recruits expert scientists to help decide what biomedical research to fund.<br/><br/>Normally, Congress and political appointees in Heath &amp; Human Services establish the main funding priorities, and these result in &#34;funding opportunity announcements,&#34; inviting researchers to submit project proposals that respond to those priorities. This process constitutes NIH&#39;s &#34;extramural&#34; research program, by which academic scientists across the country are recruited to work on NIH&#39;s research priorities.<br/><br/>🧵 1/6<br/><br/>#Science #Medicine #Healthcare #Research #NIH 2025-01-23T01:16:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy984r2hf93fpa2syctj3atxsfyq7fsqxu8k2zxvawl6ynhz7wc4czyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7ywlskd50 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfwzpyjzau7znt8mgt7hxffmfgudzskjsvvzmqa0vtpyh5xnmzhyg2nns3p'>nevent1q…ns3p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t normally boost AI generated images, but holy shit. 2025-01-21T04:55:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs04wjgee2t6r8dgf0vep5jafpcr0hp8q583qswh22rjwvuwsvyz6czyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7ywekq4f9 20th century people: The 21st century is coming up soon. What kind of future should we build?<br/><br/>20th century science fiction authors: Imagine a future where corporations control everything, flashing ads are inserted onto every free surface, the value of human life is reduced to crass financial calculations, and the truth itself is for sale to the highest bidder.<br/><br/>People: Chilling, terrible, don&#39;t like that. What else have you got?<br/><br/>Authors: Imagine a future where humanity has learned how to live together in peace, dedicated itself to art, science, and the exploration of our universe, and leadership is a hypercompetent meritocracy.<br/><br/>People: Wow, that sounds great! So how do you imagine we get there?<br/><br/>Authors: First, we abandon capitalism and the concept of money, then...<br/><br/>People: Wait, hang on, go back to the first one again? 2025-01-17T05:46:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8tyw5aejv65hs0uvzy667qs3n59lmuhhg02fryvmnwvzx9h2re3qzyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7ywk8yrfy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0lsany7lu359mpfaqhjqnq2sav2fw5k9lldyswwwnj9r97jfzhlss8wr6n'>nevent1q…wr6n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Unionized Flying Objects. They got great PTO contracts. 2024-12-27T23:38:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyc80wuyee8k3k47wkpq8lnz5nfljpc24zkvpdr2ywfe52ys22upqzyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7ywps2a5p We can and should ensure that no one is ever again assassinated for being a for-profit health insurance executive, by eliminating for-profit health insurance. 2024-12-08T00:13:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9cq737p340l2dqlc86hk76rswqmyfdn39uzhn3hqc464q0r905tczyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7ywhe3qwf This is a remarkable piece of long-form journalism from the Washington Post about a US federal government employee who has used his position to transform the way mining operates, saving thousands of lives. The public has this idea that federal employees are just pencil-pushers who love wrapping things in red tape. But I know from personal experience that many of them are just like Chris Mark: people with a strong sense of service who want to solve problems for their country, and don&#39;t care much about wealth, fame, or credit.<br/><br/><a href="https://wapo.st/3Xr9usa">https://wapo.st/3Xr9usa</a><br/><br/>#Labor #Safety #Mining #Engineering #WestVirginia #Government 2024-09-03T18:48:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspgu4hp9y7k46rsvf5h2u9756f9x57rd44vgnqcj9dqvy4wval06szyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7ywgarlmm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs02k2q0a2tc6al520pmnedkw0y9haepa5870aseamnvfxh2gj7zzgwuze24'>nevent1q…ze24</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Thanks for the rec! I&#39;ll try that some time.<br/><br/>Usually for me the serving bowl is the cooking pot: for ramen I go real minimal effort and boil water in a kettle, and just pour it over the noodles and soup base in my bowl, wait five minutes, and then shovel the noodles into my mouth as fast as my chopsticks will let me. I am very sophisticated and well-mannered.<br/><br/>Your suggestion definitely sounds better, and worth dirtying a second pot, though. 2024-08-05T03:36:57Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswcauzyeulwnhqqkpse8u0xxw7me9x2u0ax3x7gwxpkmlwtuxwx3czyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7yw8n2qej This evening, for the first time in my life, I made a packet of instant ramen following the &#34;serving suggestion&#34; photograph on the packet, adding chives and a boiled egg.<br/><br/>And you know what? Good suggestion. It was worth the extra effort. 2024-08-05T01:06:02Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgre5lgvnsex4ws8ezmpyn732mhxq3ppr7he6u68r56gfvpeck3kszyr68rptyu85gs6wnfxvk8ghrad9tsmnflddwx8wwdjjprfxznj7ywv3k82r I think we need to encourage people to stop using phrases like &#34;Rupert Murdoch is worth $8.3 billion&#34; and replace them with the more accurate &#34;Rupert Murdoch *controls* $8.3 billion.&#34; People aren&#39;t worth any more or less because of their wealth or lack of it. The phrase encourages a sloppy and immoral habit of thought. 2024-07-28T14:36:09Z