Richard.

sometimes I write sentences just for myself, that probably won't make it to the final draft.

"That’s why there’s a decent chance your favorite 20th-century statistician authored a book chapter titled “The obvious inferiority of Negroes” or something ridiculous like that. "

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and that reference section gonna be full of more papers to read. 😭 I mean it's good but also bad.

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trying to finish writing and someone drops directly relevant paper that i gotta go read now

Georgia Is Letting a Railroad Seize Land a Black Family Has Owned For 100 Years Descendants of enslaved people are fighting an attempt to use eminent domain to carve a spur through one of Georgia’s largest Black‑owned farms.

In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his family’s generational wealth

Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers

Jesse Jackson appeared on Sesame Street in 1973.

During his appearance, he led a group of children in reciting his well-known poem “I Am Somebody,” a message focused on self-worth and empowerment

The segment became one of the most memorable celebrity appearances from the early seasons of the show.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I HEARD THEY AREN'T MAKING SHORTBREAD ANY LONGER

nobody:

education academics: "the [blank] wars"

nobody: ??

education academics: "the critical [blank] pedagogy wars"

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placing your important work on ethics in social and behavioral sciences behind one of those "rent for 48 hours for $39.99" paywalls.

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sitting in my office looking out at this ice-snow

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clearing my parking space

"Fugitive slave catchers just need better training"--moderates in 1850, probably

if the Indiana Hoosiers just won the college football national championship, in football, you can make a difference in your local politics

I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.

Great piece on prioritizing quality over quantity in scientific publication.

For those of us with labs, this necessarily involves shrinking our group size. After I got tenure I started to downsize my lab and have not regretted it one iota. More time for each student & more time to think & write.

6 watercolor paintings in bright colors with different messages

I added a few new itty-bitty paintings to my Ko-Fi shop. Only one set of each ko-fi.com/1626SLXL3044...

"The system has become hyper-competitive — so much so that it is dangerous & corrosive. The many problems that the grant system has — incremental research, the loss of innovation — are symptoms of the fact that too many scientists are chasing after too few grant dollars."

The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left “We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...

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at firefox

This is exactly why things like ethics, unconscious bias and general confronting of people’s racism in science IS necessary and will always be necessary.

the mind sometimes need to know about bird poop.

LISTEN! The number of students of color I informally advise on publishing, fellowship applications, dissertations, job applications, fly outs, etc. could fill an auditorium. And the vast majority do not attend the institution that provides me with a W-2.

Gen-Zine: DIY publications find new life as form of resistance against Trump

"There’s a freedom people are craving because they’re feeling so constrained, surveilled and, frankly, threatened in so many other spheres."

Zines have made a resurgence as communities seek to share information on everything from ICE raids to local elections.

folks seem to be adding a lot of AI addendums. names of majors, schools, all getting "AI" added. Has anyone gone ahead and changed at the university level? Like "Texas A&M" but for Artificial Intelligence instead of agriculture. 😂

yearly reminder

Don't experiment on thanksgiving. 😂

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maybe I'm misreading the email, but I think they just floated the idea of using AI in the tenure & promotion process.

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a few days late

People are desperately drawn to phrenology. You could set your clock by the regularity at which those stupid papers come out and are debunked. Can't people FINALLY know better?
No, the urge to judge people by characteristics they can't control is too strong...

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I've actually been just standing here this whole time
reading the AI discourse