I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.
There's a far better case for banning social media for people 65+ than for people 16-18
It's been a wild ride, but I'm excited to finally say I GOT IT.
I received the NOA for an NIH F99/K00 D-SPAN award — that I applied to in October 2024!!!
It funds 1-2 years of my doctoral research, and up to 4 years of postdoctoral research
Images below: How it started / How it's going
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Ceinwen Langley
Michael Hobbes
Super cool talk today by @jrossibarra.bsky.social! #PEQG26 Learning a lot about ARGs 😬
Re-upping this! Come find me at #PEQG26 to learn more about this postdoc/sci-programmer opportunity in my lab.
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There we go!
Recipe for a Good π. How to Properly Estimate Population Genetics Summary Statistics and Why we Should Systematically Report Them academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
“The feature uses a combination of bedtime stories, relaxing sounds, and guided meditations along with scheduling and customization options accessible only to adults.”
An inevitable development for for-profit Open Access publishers is Fordism: automation & massification.
If you earn money piece-rate for each paper you want to increase the flow of papers while minimizing cost.
e.g. very low and *uniform* turnaround times at Frontiers and MDPI
Rob Woodry
Amazon wants to make bedtime less of a struggle.
www.theverge.com
The Children's Commissioner wants the social media ban extended to 18. Even though people will be able to vote at 16. The Beatles first went to Hamburg when George Harrison was 17. You can also decide to take on £50k of tuition fee debt at 17.
