I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand
One of my go-tos: "If no one's responsible for that task, that's exactly who does it"
So much of data management (and a lot of other task-oriented stuff) is just roles and responsibilities
A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)
Directorates to follow
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Super useful research advice from our friends @ TLOS for my skeptic view of all things AI:
-Consider portions of research workflow that you understand well and can scrutinize what an AI tool/agent is output
-Ask AI tool/agent to output an object that could be integrated into existing workflows
Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isnβt flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. π§΅π
"This isn't a replacement [for domain expertise], it is an accelerant. Results still need to be validated"
Good quote on the use of agentic AI in research
When people have asked me about thoughts on AI & qualitative data, this has been at the top of my list. Sobering to see proof of concept.
Lots of research needed on what (de-identified?) human subject data we can still publish under which conditions.
Steps backwards IMO...certainly not going to help proposal writers budget appropriately for these activities, nor be in good position to actually share data when it's time (esp human participants data)
Librarians can be key research partners who help to scour the literature, manage data and make science open
go.nature.com/4c4JTwR
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?
Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards
My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
"Concomitant with the emergent partisan gap [in trust in science] is a massive perceptual gap among Democrats, who perceive a partisan divide more than double its actual size. Democrats vastly underestimate Republicansβ trust in scientists" academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
Writing is thinking.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
The American Academy of Actuaries warns that dismantling NCAR would degrade the catastrophe models insurers depend on to price climate riskβdriving up premiums and threatening coverage availability nationwide.
"Uncertainty carries a positive cost."
www.riskmarketnews.com/trumps-clima...
r/analytics β’ IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
I found it on p. 31 of the report!
"Survey questions and data from 2025 are available on Figshare"
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
Who among us doesn't want to see the moon broken up?
I'm personally sick of its phases....gibbous? come on
The Trump administration moves to strip 50,000 agency staff of civil service protections & give himself the power to fire them without just cause.
This...
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
βYou need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.β Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)
Motherfucking wind farmsβ¦
Interesting work, thanks for sharing! Looking at a time series of model output (or maybe reanalysis data too) could show changes in temp profiles, makes good sense
I guess TWC starting to name winter storms might help with the record keeping, after I joined everyone in laughing about that....
Is there also a known relationship between increasing ice/freezing rain with winter storms and a warming climate, esp on the East Coast?
Warmer air aloft leads to less snow, more ice and sleet, after all
Something we've been speculating here in SW VA while stuck without public school...
Seen here on BSky but I like to quote it: "Microsoft doesn't have users, they have hostages"
I agree. Working on a new report on this right now. What happened in Atlanta today is significantly worse than it even appears on the surface. I daresay I no longer hold out much hope that this fall will be anything but utterβand scaryβchaos.
A free and fair election increasingly feels unthinkable.
"open science behaviors function as honest signals of a researcherβs willingness to expose their work to scrutiny"
NSF just posted their Dear Colleague Letter regarding the restructuring of NCAR. www.nsf.gov/funding/info...
I picked a hell of a week to visit Europe, and Switzerland, at that.l Iβve spent three days at an international gathering, and, Americans: everybody else is deep into planning a post-US world. We are only worth considering as an opponent. New alliances are being formed. We are being left behind.
