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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

After, let's call it a good night sleep for the sake of argument, a good night sleep, I read the "Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates" more carefully at the suggestion of an experience colleague. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... 1/n

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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Couple of thoughts on this - short 🧵 1) even if there are successful legal challenges to this particular change, I don’t see indirect rates of >60% coming back any time soon and universities should plan for the long term accordingly

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Alex Piet @alexpiet.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

New paper, now out in Neuron: "Behavioral strategy shapes activation of the Vip-Sst disinhibitory circuit in visual cortex" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... data, code, and model fits all available online

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

Wow. Paris just voted to triple the parking costs for SUVs. A huge victory in the fight against car bloat. www.bfmtv.com/paris/direct...

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/02/2024

Greenhouse Effect xkcd.com/2889

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Chewbacula @jason1749.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Biden’s numbers would jump 20 points if he said this on the stump.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

a lot of the debate about voting for Biden is really a debate about whether voting is a purely pragmatic calculus or whether it reflects some sort of moral endorsement of the candidate

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 18/01/2024

Thinking about how there’s nothing to keep the driver with 524 speeding camera tickets in a year off the road because the speed camera can’t assign blame to the driver howsmydrivingny.nyc/408vgjv7

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Finding from a new study of drivers passing bicyclists: Road characteristics (speed, width, etc) affect safety/risk more than driver attitudes. Implication: For safer bike/car interactions, focus on infrastructure -- not driver education or signage. doi.org/10.1016/j.js...

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Nick Land Acknowledgement 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

The morning paper, January 5, 2024:

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 01/01/2024

2023 was the warmest year on record globally by a large margin. Another dark red stripe gets added, though I think I need a new colour. #ShowYourStripes

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

IMPORTANT: This ranks a bunch of ways we get around cities, using average carbon emissions by transport type in grams per pkm. It breaks emissions down by operation, manufacture etc. Feet and bikes win. Lots of ways beat electric cars, and everything beats gas cars. HT @copenhenken

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

The same folks who squinted hard enough to discover the secret of nearly limitless individual gun rights in the 2nd Amendment are somehow blind to the giant letters in the 14th barring insurrectionists from elections

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

the argument that trump needs to be convicted of insurrection before he can be disqualified is extremely weak. not only does the constitution not say it, but no one seriously believes that every single Confederate soldier needed to be tried and convicted before being disqualified.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

This entire arrangement is almost comically corrupt. Like if you were asked about in your annual HR online training module the very obvious easy answer would be that *of course* this isn’t ok. www.propublica.org/article/clar...

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VonTraphaus @vontraphaus.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

A modern Christmas Carol remake where Scrooge doesn’t change his ways but instead makes his whole personality about how the woke Christmas ghosts are trying to cancel him

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

The MIT Climate Clock. Time to act is running out. web.mit.edu/climateclock/

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Someone else already did this in the comments but it’s deeply funny to me how true this is, as literally shown by asking Chat-GPT what the poem is about.

You
What is the Shel Silverstein poem "The
Homework Machine" about?
ChatGPT
"The Homework Machine" is a poem by Shel Silverstein that tells the story of a magical machine that can do homework perfectly. The machine is shared among a group of friends,
and they use it to complete their assignments effortlessly. However, things take an unexpected turn as the teacher becomes suspicious, leading to a humorous twist in the poem. It explores themes of laziness, responsibility, and the consequences of taking shortcuts.

You
What is the Shel Silverstein poem "The
Homework Machine" about?
ChatGPT
I apologize for the confusion, but there seems to be a misunderstanding. Shel Silverstein did not write a poem titled "The Homework Machine." If you have a different poem or
topic in mind, please provide more details, and I'll do my best to assist you.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Congressional staffers say an onslaught of calls and emails asking for members to support a cease-fire has caught Dems completely off-guard. “I’ve never seen such a disconnect between where voters and constituents are and where Congress is"

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Democratic Staffers Told To Let Constant Calls For Cease-Fire ‘Go To Voicemail’

Congressional staff say the mood inside the Capitol is tense, stifling and bewildering as members brush off their constituents’ outrage.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

my take on "from the river to the sea" is that if you can look at 10,000 dead civilians, 4,000 of which are children, bombed or crushed or vaporized or starved or who knows what else, and think, "i want to go online and argue about a slogan," you're not a morally serious person

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

we fixed acid rain! we fixed the ozone layer! we beat polio! we’ve rescued scores of species from the brink of extinction! the despair many of us feel about climate change isn’t that it’s too big to fix. it’s that we know it is fixable but we’re being thwarted by greedy ghouls at every turn.

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