marijane white, mslis

An objection to AI I find persuasive is "no one can keep up with this pace of change."

If there was a 0.5-speed lever on this thing I might pull it.

A more complete set of voices in a companion piece.

www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...

Good scientists are leaving NIH.

Counter to the quote from HHS, NIH is struggling to recruit qualified scientists to replace them.

My own role sits empty. NIH cannot replace me since I am still employed but prevented from working.

This admin is gutting science.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...

the official Python website with an interactive Python shell built into the front page, showing libraries like numpy and sci kit learn are installed

need a quick Python REPL, but you're away from your main computer? but you also need libraries like numpy and scikit-learn? the python.org homepage has got you covered

Current NIH leadership want you to think they are using rigorous, consistent & scientific processes to screen studies to align them with agency priorities.

But the process that they have put down on paper is a sham.

It’s important to know NIH is not following its own guidance. Here’s why:

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AHRQ has been hit even harder than NIH. They have no grant making staff at all.

Apart from ::gestures broadly::, I've decided to take the plunge and set up a (small) endowment fund at the NCSU Libraries

Stayed there overnight quite a bit back when I was homeless (nearly 30 years ago now 👴🏼🫠) and want to give something back to them

in a real role reversal today i got to give a bandaid to a medical student at the reference desk.

Graphic that says 196,636 years’ worth of federal work experience in the sciences was lost in 2025 and that 48,304 years’ worth of such work experience were lost in 2024.

Headline from Science: “U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 #STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.” www.science.org/content/arti...

Here’s the deal with the FY26 NIH funding bill:

One line in the 1000+ pg bill = significantly less science.

The increase to ~40% of grants moving to MYF is estimated to result in a 35% decrease in the NUMBER of NIH grants funded annually—moving the paylines from 10% to around 4%.

THIS IS BAD.

I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out.

For the record, the small example I chose:

My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

Wording that says Quarterly Update, Guide to Applying, Version 2.7

📢All updates to the guide to applying are being released quarterly
✅Version 2.7
In this update we address shared copyright, a new requirement for Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals, and clarify some wording
#OpenAccess #BestPractice #QualityCriteria #Copyright #S2O
🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/01/12/u...

Texas changes law to attract foreign-trained doctors Texas joins 17 other states that are making it easier for foreign medical graduates to work as doctors here. About a quarter of the state’s licensed doctors were trained outside the U.S.

In the real world, Texas desperately needs more foreign trained doctors. But in GOP world, you drive them away with bans, surveillance, and fees. 

www.texastribune.org/2026/01/09/t...

lol of course it's only gotten worse

Why Ghost References Still Haunt Us in 2025—And Why It's Not Just About LLMs Ghost references existed long before LLMs. This post examines how Google Scholar's [CITATION] mechanism and web pollution may undermine RAG verification.

[blogged] Why Ghost References Still Haunt Us in 2025—And Why It's Not Just About LLMs aarontay.substack.com/p/why-ghost-...

Here's a classic example of a ghost reference
www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/1790

The Senate version of the NIH appropriations bill has language that limits the use of multiyear/upfront funding. Please call your Senators and Representatives to make sure it is in the final bill.

We must stop the brain drain in our research workforce before it's too late.

Glad to see Congress doing some oversight of new NIH policies. www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

Number of new awards is way down since Trump took office, despite NIH spending the same amount of money.

oooh i hate it when it gets stuck on loading results.

INBOX: Former NIAID director Jeanne Marrazzo is suing the Trump administration.

She alleges the NIH violated her constitutional rights and illegally fired her after she blew the whistle on actions that jeopardized public health and violated federal law.

Such h index, very wow 📚

Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.

Headline: “Exclusive: #Springer #Nature #retracts, removes nearly 40 publications that trained neural networks on ‘bonkers’ dataset.” www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e...

I aspire to a state of enlightenment where I can laugh at the LLM fail of the day, tsk-tsk the Altman video being tsked, and then go right back to coding w/ Claude. It's not like we're debating a policy to reduce AI use. It's more like deploring the weather, which I can do even as a user of weather.

Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric?

Love it: this article argues tongue-in-cheek for a new metric that combines the weight of a researcher's published books divided by the number of years since their doctorate.

It is normalised: "A kilogram of philosophy weighs the same as a kilogram of physics."

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My PNC-MLA presentation about the Pairwise PubMed Search Generator has been posted!
In it, I put the tool in context and give a demo at the end.
#medlibs

My PNC-MLA presentation about the Pairwise PubMed Search Generator has been posted!
In it, I put the tool in context and give a demo at the end.
#medlibs

And they don't even do a good job with the product. Recordings with long stretches of dead air on a video platform with no playback speed controls. It's why I'm not getting my SSRS Level 2.

I have literally thousands of spreadsheets I've built with Python and I'm showing people examples of them all the time because they're f'n beautiful