For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals.
The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster.
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I don’t relish this. But, if law profs try to sell the Supreme Court a historical fantasy and change a constitutional rule for 340 million people, which if adopted, destroys the entire constitutional order. Honesty must yield to niceties. We have a higher calling. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Meet the conservative legal minds telling the Supreme Court to side with Trump.
You never have to hand it to Ken Griffin, but at least he's honest here. The unceasing insistence that AI is the unavoidable future is hype meant to juice investments and stock prices, while the end product is mostly just a pile of "work slop." youtu.be/5Ez0iC9x3ds?...
A circuit judge overturned the Republican-controlled Kentucky House’s attempt to impeach a sitting Lexington judge on Tuesday, roughly a week before proceedings were set to start in the Senate. #kyga26
Religious appeals are commonplace in the context of wartime, but Hegseth is doing something different entirely. He's expressing open contempt for limits on the military while also claiming God's sanction for *maximum violence and killing.* 4/
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Joe Dunman
Kentucky Public Radio
Greg Sargent
Church and state should be separated.
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The @kygop Know-Nothings tell you this is about financial responsibility but they’re lying. This is about tearing down higher education: Teach the MAGA Way or get out. Sadly, the universities have already demonstrated their willingness to be complicit.
Joe Dunman
So many fascinating questions about religious identity, community, organization, and obligation all wrapped up in one obnoxious person.
A circuit judge overturned the Republican-controlled Kentucky House’s attempt to impeach a sitting Lexington judge on Tuesday, roughly a week before proceedings were set to start in the Senate.
The legislation would explicitly permit terminations for low enrollment or “misalignment of revenue and costs.” The GOP supermajority can override any veto from the Democratic governor.
Vice President JD Vance has a new book that will explore his religious faith and his conversion to Catholicism as an adult. “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith” will be out June 16.
I think we need an inverse thread where we talk about things that normal intelligent people universally agree upon that are for some reason hot takes within your profession
Anne Lutz Fernandez
Unilever is in advanced talks to merge its food business with spice maker McCormick , it said on Tuesday, in a potential deal that could create a $60 billion company.
