Dad, husband, astrophysicist, dog herder. Samuel T. and Fern Yanagisawa Regents Professor in Astronomy at UT Austin. This is a personal account and the views expressed in my posts here are mine. https://mrbk.github.io
Mike Boylan-Kolchin
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He’s the closest thing we have to a real life, British version of Peter Griffin’s “What Really Grinds My Gears” and I think that’s beautiful
Unfortunate Shrimp Situation: hip indie band or apt description of my freezer right now?
Murc’s law — only Democrats have agency, Republicans are merely buffeted by political forces — remains undefeated
$100-$150 million in missiles used today, plus continuing to rapidly deplete a stock that cannot be easily replaced. All on the whims of a mercurial grifter
this is what actually makes science hard
FIRE: great at lawsuits that protect first amendment rights, terrible at understanding numbers and doing other advocacy on "free speech". (Besides Milan's example below: they report information split by conservative / liberal but 1/5 of the *self-selected* respondents left this information blank.)
As expressed on the pod with @mbkplus.bsky.social, I have missed feelings about FIRE. They do some genuinely important work. But their surveys are unscientific and agenda-driven. This one of law faculty had a 6% response rate, with no apparent testing for non-response bias.
Science is awesome. We should fund it and make policy based on it.
This is a key paragraph to me, as it completely ignores the way the Court has dragged its feet to meet requirements of the VRA, pre Callais, only to immediately act post Callais, in both cases to directly benefit Republicans. It's not a slippery slope, we're on our assess sliding down the icy hill.
