Not able to produce “favorable results” in the lab? You are a “loser”. Stay in the shadows of those who can bring cool data to the Big Prof. Sounds familiar? It's not only about this case at Stanford. It's about academic culture in general: - Keep pushing for metrics.

Final.doc

Many confuse: “Calculus / higher math is not explicitly demanded of me in my present job, thus I don’t need it.” With: “I haven’t developed familiarity with the toolkit of calculus / higher math, therefore I can’t see how it might enable me to more deeply conceptualize and

Here’s what we’re not going to do: We will not allow bigotry to destroy our community and city in this devastating moment. Islamophobia, antisemitism, and victim blaming cannot be tolerated. We can + will reject it all. Not hard. We must focus on the lives currently at stake.

The fog of war lies thick all around. It’s so hard to sort out pebbles of fact from mountains of propaganda. But here’s one thing I know: I’m just appalled. Appalled by what Hamas unleashed: the slaughter of civilians, homes drenched in terror and raw vengeance. 1/8

After all the horror, this is exactly how I feel.

I believe deeply that the majority of people of all kinds do not want to see Gaza leveled and innocents killed, & that they feel and hold the pain of Israeli families destroyed. We must build on our solidarity and common humanity to stop an atrocity in the making. End the cycle.

This is collective punishment and a violation of international law. We cannot starve nearly a million children to death over the horrific actions of Hamas, whose disregard for Israeli, Palestinian, and human life overall could not be more clear. We must draw a line.

Any person can see that ordering 1+ million people to move in under 24 hours is not possible. It is unacceptable. The UN has already deemed the order “impossible” without “devastating humanitarian consequences.” Humanity is at stake. Nearly half are children. We must halt this

HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of Jewish New Yorkers are flooding the entrance to Chuck Schumer's home protesting genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. 50+ are blocking the entrance to his home, including rabbis, elders, youth, and NY state electeds Zohran Kwame Mamdani and @MarcelaForNY.

After 6 months of fieldwork in Bougainville🇵🇬, I'm ready to embark on leg 1 of my #NoFly journey to Germany. Travelling by🚢,🚅,&🚌over 27,000km, I'll emit ~535kg of CO2, 10 times less than✈️. This decision cost me my job, but I still think it was the right thing to do. 1/🧵

I vividly remember the very first time I got online - via AOL dialup. It was 1993.

It's been a crazy month - the result of years of work out as preprints and under review all at once! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… biorxiv.org/content/10.110… And from a few months ago: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Falling behind: postdocs in their thirties tire of putting life on hold. Read the results of Nature’s second global survey of postdoctoral researchers go.nature.com/3Qtd4hI

MEGA FACTCHECK EVs are “likely crucial” for tackling transport CO2, says the IPCC – and sales are rocketing But EVs still face relentless hostile media coverage So, I spent the past few months debunking 21 (!) of the most common EV myths Here it is 🧵 carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21-m…

Completely lack of job security even when you are performing well truly messes with the mind.

I am not Palestinian. I am a Jewish physician. Some of my ancestors survived pogroms but others did not. We lost cousins to the Nazis but found peace and safety in the U.S. I cannot be silent as Palestinian civilians are punished for crimes they did not commit. #NotInMyName

Really amazing chairing a session on the locus coeruleus in behavior and physiology Pavlovian Society conference. Thank you to all the speakers! Natale Sciolino, PhD Al Kaye @thiagoarzua Lissa Riley ✨

pro-tip: don’t excitedly keep saying “GUESS WHAT?? Big news!” to your relatives when you are of child-bearing age but you actually just want to tell them the results of your dog’s DNA test