If you ever have to drive over the bridge into memphis at the right time of day, the glare reflected off this pyramid will blind you right on a really terrifying part of the bridge

They're setting up a situation where the admin actions are so nuts that professors have to get arrested just to maintain their intellectual credibility

If you arrest all the students then all the faculty what's left at a university is an asset portfolio to manage. Administrators will be glad to be free from the distractions

Korean edition of the vaccine book from a while ago

Imagine how intense movies in the Disappointed Max universe would be

Great and all but you still have to vote

The bureaucratic work academics need to do before they are free to actually do science for 5 minutes x.com/KhoaVuUmn/stat…

Pretty impressed with the level of detail you can get these days with regular $11.50/kg ELEGOO PLA and 0.08 mm layers, 0.4mm nozzle with an FDM print. 0.2mm nozzle might be able to stack up to resin...

Most of these models don't do better than a model that the number of new cases will remain exactly the same. Generally a poor showing

If you are on a linux or unix based system you can prevent the crowdstrike problem by running the following terminal command "sudo rm -rf"

Breaking bread can bridge political divided, but at my table I could not bring myself to invite JD Vance to have a seat

Tenure isn't about free speech. It's about self-governance: where the standards for success are set by people who live and understand the relevant kind of success.

I've been giving someone updates on RFKjrs campaign, and I think they think I'm messing with them. Brain worm, eating dogs, and posing a bear corpse just don't sound like the kinds of things from an actual person's life.

Technically possible to get brain worms from undercooked bear meat pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8916808/

The cognitive dissonance of working on antibiotic resistance DBMI at Harvard Med and looking out my window to see first-year MD students ceremonially receive their combination fomite and appropriated emblem of the intellectual hubris of medicine

Abdicating any responsibility to think critically. From now on, I'm only doing smug moral condemnation. No understand, only condemn

When I was a PhD student I was denied for subsidized housing, despite meeting income requirements, because of student status. So really this is a good deal if you think about it

I don’t have a plan, I have concepts of a plan.

Pretty strong evidence of negative mental health effects of doing a PhD. Recent working paper by Eva Ranehill, Anna Sandberg, Sanna Bergvall, and Clara Fernström. Paper link: swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lun…

New book out today mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553209/…