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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Do you actually disagree with my conclusion that we shouldn't pull all of our dollars towards genetics and imaging?

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Other long-term federal employees didn't respond to a complete straw-man.

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Yet another person with direct experience at NIH:

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

And here's someone who actually worked at NIMH at the time.

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I agree with your point here! Not thinking NIMH should be dominated by neuroimaging and genetics doesn't remotely imply that we should get rid of basic science altogether. A number of folks who worked at NIH liked the piece:

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

How do these red lights make any sense? No source of support, no reason to exist in the first place, no reason to have multiple red lights.

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Equating the below to RFK is absolute nonsense.

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

PS: it's even worse than I depicted.

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Amazing that DOGE is so focused on massively increasing bureaucracy and inefficiency: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

New story in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Just read this book today. Well-written, fascinating, and terrifying:

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Published a piece on a quick-and-easy way to reduce bureaucracy. A White House official just posted this in response: The piece: goodscience.substack.com/p/the-case-f...

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

5. Endless definitions of many other foods as well (e.g., defining the diameter of macaroni vs. spaghetti vs. vermicelli): www.ecfr.gov/current/titl...

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Out of all the conferences I've attended for the past 10 years, these are the top two water dispensers with the most fruit or vegetables in them:

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

On BlueSky, Guido responded to me:

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Why am I seeing 1,000x more complaints about a squirrel than about this alarming story: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202…

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Seems significant for evaluators and researchers that Guido Imbens is now counseling: "Don't Do Difference in Differences"! files.constantcontact.com/668faa28001/... However . . . who's going to write the software package for this preferred estimator?

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Seems significant for evaluators and researchers that Guido Imbens is now counseling: "Don't Do Difference in Differences"! files.constantcontact.com/668faa280… However . . . who's going to write the software package for this...

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Love prepping for Halloween trick-or-treaters:

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Love prepping for Halloween trick-or-treaters:

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

As an inbox zero person, I need to take a moment of silence to observe this occasion (which I haven't actually achieved in more than a year):

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

American innovation is unparalleled:

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

If true, think of the lost economic opportunity in not making better trade and employment deals with our friend the humble baboon:

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Going thru some old bookmarks, and noticed two weird phenomena--caterpillars that change color to imitate the background (even when blindfolded), and a South American plant that imitates background leaves including size, shape, & color! t.co/YdMOkdZFdh htt

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Interesting to see that this book predicted cryptocurrency in 1997:

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Interesting exchange from the Macroscience podcast, on the risks of scientific research. www.macroscience.org/p/metascience-… @tylercowen says that science isn't the constraint on terrorist attacks. I'd agree--I once left a comment saying something...

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Hot take: plagiarism is the least of the problems with the fact that so many public figures (few of whom have the time or aptitude to write a book, let alone enough ideas) hire ghostwriters to write "books" that are purchased almost exclusively by people who don't actually read anyway.

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Hot take: plagiarism is the least of the problems with the fact that so many public figures (few of whom have the time, aptitude, or ideas to write a book) hire ghostwriters to write "books" that are purchased almost exclusively by people who don't actually read anyway.

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

This person has a PhD and 570k followers . . . but I hope no one is taking take exercise advice from anyone who thinks there is such a thing as "1-mile sprints" or that it's a good idea to do Tabata intervals every day (or ever, really):

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

Sure the SpaceX thing is cool, but there are plenty of other examples of American innovation worth celebrating:

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Derek Kaufman and Arati Prabhakar at the Abundance 2024 conference just now:

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Twitter's algorithm is hard to explain. Of everything I've ever written, one of the most widely-read will be this lame joke from yesterday morning:

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

I've liked them for several years, but just found this out from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Moses_(ba…

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Curious as to why Andy Gelman's blog at Columbia is the only blog in existence that involves this step (just to read it):

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

A headline I wouldn't have predicted 3 years ago:

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

One of the main problems with government (as well as non-profits, foundations, universities, etc.) is that the natural life-cycle below doesn't readily occur: andrewchen.substack.com/p/bureaucra…

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

From Substack just now. Seems implausible, but maybe?

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Feature request for Substack: Let me subscribe to a newsletter but only get a weekly digest. Some authors treat Substack like a daily blog, and I just don't need that many emails. But if you click adjust the top button here, it unsubscribes:

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Enjoyed this short article on the prospects of AI-for-science: arxiv.org/abs/2408.14508

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

Which was a nice confirmation of:

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

A key paragraph on the challenge of doing high-quality science in this area:

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

It's been 243 years since Ben Franklin said we should support scientific research on improving the smell of farts. Yet we are no closer to Franklin's dream that a dinner host could offer guests a choice of fart smells along with a choice of wine. Sad!...

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

Can't remember where I found this, but seems legit?

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 04/08/2024

Is there a way to turn off the "AI" (that is, junk) results at the top of Google searches? Just searched for something very simple: women's world record 400m. Google says Marita Koch set the record in 1957, but it was 1985....

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