A 20 year study on 2 NIH diversity programs in Science Advances shows they doubled undergrads' odds of getting a Ph.D.
That is, before the funding for those programs and for the study itself was terminated last year:
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Reaganism, the perennial student loan debt debate and decency drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/r...
Neither my 18 or 20 year old would go with me. So I worked on a manuscript instead. The 18 year old did go to the first two.
We are around 30% (down 70%) from a couple of years ago. Despite flat NIH funding. We are going to regret this and excellent students are losing their opportunities. ðŸ˜
I’m completely convinced we should never use student evaluations (good or bad) to merit and promotion at the university. What can we use to better evaluate teaching at the university?
Recent studies in living animals reveal that the cytoplasm is a thick, jam-like fluid. And yet, miraculously, hoards of molecules find their way to each other in every crowded cell. www.quantamagazine.org/the-biophysi...
Forget the textbook view of a cell as a calm, orderly place. Glowing trackers reveal that it is jam-packed as a crowded nightclub — raising questions about how molecules can encounter their partners for the reactions that enable life. www.quantamagazine.org/the-biophysi...
An estimated 1 billion biochemical reactions occur every second in every cell of our bodies. New research is revealing how cells harness physics by packing molecules into tiny spaces to make these reactions happen.
New in @quantamagazine.bsky.social: the science of cytoplasmic crowding. From Liam Holt & Simone Reber's work to our discovery that in vivo cytoplasm is 50x more crowded than cultured cells. Thanks @danstarrucdavis.bsky.social & @gabepopkin.bsky.social! www.quantamagazine.org/the-biophysi...
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
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