Odds of a child getting kidnapped are ~1 in a million. Odds of a child born in 2021 dying in a traffic crash are ~1 in 93. Parents act like these stats are reversed. Paranoid about rare kidnappings and naive about the common driving. (Natl Safety Council tracks this stuff)

Was just explaining why we walk to my 4 yo today

It’s REALLY important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally AGAINST downtown bike-lanes, later became one of their most vigourous supporters, because of EVIDENCE that bike-lanes are better for downtown business than any street parking they replace.

Oct check in: my PhD student defended, submitted his dissertation and is at a new job, I submitted my application for reappointment, the Sloan Foundation and Harvard-Radcliffe Fellowships, two workshop proposals, and my 1st R01 thx National Research Mentoring Network. Going to celebrate then submit 4 papers

It’s trolley from Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood

Add "uninvited talks" to your academic CV - when you shared your research with a person against their will

Favorite Mexican restaurant on the east coast (that’s a single serving btw) #Baltimore

Don’t worry about big gov’t keeping a registry of all gun owners … corporations already got you and has been selling you out for years propublica.org/article/gunmak…

This is my 15th year at Univ. of Maryland and I've never seen anything like this: The Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute has openings for *30* (!) tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions in Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. ejobs.umd.edu/postings/124144

Truth Bomb

The wealth gap is this big and two billionaires are endorsing another billionaire…it shouldn’t be this close. Robber barons had the decency to not be this transparent

For those who say we should be “happy with what we get”, because NIH is taxpayer funded… please see below. Basic research is at the heart of innovation….and the return on investment says it all. Ps NIH is 1/20th the budget of defense.

I really want to scream in to the void right now, so X. My semester is going well: 4 papers and 4 grants planned & submitted...but I've found so many other things to do and there are 4 weeks left until the new year. #academiclife #AcademicTwitter

Forgot the actual job posting academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28186

Finding ppl on LinkedIn cause tbh I just use this site for professional networking anyways.