I wrote about AI in academia. "PhD-level thinking", LLM bias, grunt work, alignment, AGI, data center water use, AI politics -- something for everyone.
I'm in favor of limits, but I think they should be imposed on dollar amounts, not on number of grants. Why should somebody with three small grants get penalized over somebody else with one large one?
PhD-level thinking, LLM bias, alignment, AGI, data centers, and AI politics
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Now accepting applications for our 2027 Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards support students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs to conduct #ecology and #evolution research. Deadline is June 30, 2026: bit.ly/4umYKZd #science
Imagine you had six years of data and every year resistance levels go up ... What would you think will happen in the future?
(here showing data from quinolone resistance in E coli in Hungary from the supplement of this paper by @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social et al journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division is now accepting applications for its 2027 Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution.
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Neil Shubin: "Curiosity-driven research is really the seed corn for the major breakthroughs and applications. But it’s also important in its own right, because discovery and the expansion of knowledge are virtues in themselves." 🎯
"As an institution, we are — by charter and design and history — nonpartisan. But we are in a deeply partisan age. Just by doing our work, we will be viewed in a partisan light no matter what. So our job is to double down on the science."
A principled vision for NAS via incoming Pres. Neil Shubin.
The world's first trillionaire did this
RFI: Proposal to Cap the Number of Simultaneous Research Project Grants per Principal Investigator to Support More Researchers and Maximize Scientific Productivity and Innovation
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NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information: Proposal to Cap the Number of Simultaneous Research Project Grants per Principal Investigator ...
My book "The Evolution of Biological Information" is 50% off at Princeton University Press with the code "Spring50"
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"As an institution, we are — by charter and design and history — nonpartisan. But we are in a deeply partisan age. Just by doing our work, we will be viewed in a partisan light no matter what. So our job is to double down on the science."
A principled vision for NAS via incoming Pres. Neil Shubin.
