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Climate change, global health security, science diplomacy, and good futures • Yale and elsewhere • carlsonlab.bio • viralemergence.org • he/they

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I was thinking about this and it’s also a cheat code for building a core Friend Group who each have their Own Thing aligned with the Actor’s Vibe. It’s DnD

07.03.2026 04:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I could fuck with that for sure

07.03.2026 04:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Haven’t seen it but I’d fuck around

07.03.2026 03:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The professor bit works SO well for having a fan base of both life-long and young fans. Easy to map yourself onto it

07.03.2026 03:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hundo p

07.03.2026 03:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

This is also my unifying theory of why I hated Tig Notaro in Disco and love her in this: she basically barely acts and you could see her genuinely not quite enjoy the former and have fun this time

07.03.2026 03:52 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

But yeah my unifying theory of Content is that you can always tell when people have fun making something and this show is clearly very fun not just to act in but also to write for

07.03.2026 03:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You and @jbyoder.org both haven’t finished Discovery because you’re weak of mind and spirit and “don’t like bad stuff”

07.03.2026 03:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is why I feel confident 2027 will be the year my beloved Spy High will get an adaptation (???????)

07.03.2026 03:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I literally could not tell you why it works except “blank college” is literally always a good formula. Gen V shouldn’t be capable of being sincere or fun and somehow manages, The Magicians adapted shit source material and had a major sexual violence problem, it’s just hard to miss with it

07.03.2026 03:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

07.03.2026 03:39 👍 628 🔁 111 💬 20 📌 3

I love Star Trek

07.03.2026 03:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That episode hurt so good

07.03.2026 03:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

THAT’S TELEVISION BABY

07.03.2026 03:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Why do they choreograph this show like a community theater production of the fucking Crucible

07.03.2026 03:10 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Completing Caleb’s emotional arc in the first season is absolutely crazy, and I trust that the showrunners at (checks notes) STAR TREK: RIVERDALE won’t do this just to immediately cause him some sort of horrible new trauma

07.03.2026 03:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Every planet has exactly one small city contained within a single night market, I’m always saying this

07.03.2026 03:05 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s so goooood

07.03.2026 03:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This show is literally just the second coming of THE MAGICIANS

07.03.2026 03:00 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

STAR TREK: TROPES

07.03.2026 02:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I don’t like when they treat Sam like Clippy

07.03.2026 02:52 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is very nearly canon now bsky.app/profile/coli...

07.03.2026 02:48 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Time for a little STAR TREK: RIVERDALE

07.03.2026 02:35 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Donald Trump 🫱🏻‍🫲🏽 NIH

“By seven it’s marginal, right?”

07.03.2026 02:30 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Hey a six is fundable

07.03.2026 02:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve started saying “it’s hard to be a cat in the city” and I’m worried I might accidentally say it to a human person at some point if I’m not careful

07.03.2026 02:27 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

Her fishnets are beautiful

07.03.2026 02:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A person with a microphone saying “ because I think that something awaits me in the divine for resisting“

A person with a microphone saying “ because I think that something awaits me in the divine for resisting“

Them: why do you keep calling yourself a “statistician” instead of a “data scientist”

Me:

06.03.2026 23:22 👍 131 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1

Drawing a line through like 13 here and just gasping

07.03.2026 02:08 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success.

Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302

Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.

What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.

Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

07.03.2026 01:59 👍 224 🔁 148 💬 6 📌 15