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Leff Jidz

@jefflidz.bsky.social

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Linguist, cognitive scientist, developmental psychologist, mandolin player

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Leff Jidz @jefflidz.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Lot of people at the mall today. Fight the power

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

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Meehan Crist @meehancrist.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

"As scholars of constitutional law, administrative law, and antidiscrimination law who teach at Columbia, we feel compelled to point out some of the most glaring legal problems with this letter." balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

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Balkinization: A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution)

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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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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Leff Jidz @jefflidz.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

prospect.org/economy/2025...

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We Found the $2 Trillion

Elon Musk wants to cut government spending. But the waste in the system goes to elites like him. Here’s a better way to bring down deficits.

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 05/02/2025

This is worth reading. If you wonder what YOU can do, one very important thing is just to not permit yourself the luxury of denial. Do not gaslight yourself away from the knowledge about what is going on. See the truth, and say it.

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Leff Jidz @jefflidz.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

Researchers facing

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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

For students facing interviews. . .wish I could give credit to the person who put it together, but I'm not 100% certain who it was (if it was you, please LMK). In case helpful for others going through this now. . .please remember these views are never universal, just tips to consider!

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention

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Leff Jidz @jefflidz.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

New paper arguing for bipartite magnitude representations journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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