Academics are paid nothing for peer review. Yet journals made a total of over $8.3 billion on article processing charges alone between 2019-2023. Make it make sense.

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The indiscriminate and ill-conceived slashing of indirects by the NIH yesterday must be amended if want to restore America’s leadership role biomedical research. 15% simply isn’t enough for institutions to provide the basic infrastructure needed to run a successful lab. I say

Nice. I wonder how that compares to Canada

The arbitrary line we’ve drawn between mental and physical health is one of the largest mistakes in medicine.

We are all scientists.

Andrej Karpathy’s bombshells on how to learn: > learning is not supposed to be fun > don’t hallucinate of learning > learn on-demand, depth-wise > teach what you learn to others > compare yourself to you, not others

Terence McKenna, nature loves courage

The problem isn’t that Jay Bhattacharya WAS censored - it is that the scientific community TRIED to censor him and other people who put forth views on the pandemic, its origins and our response to it that strayed from the party line. And pretending now that that didn’t happen is

crazy how tech bros can just say things, this is from 2016 so i guess we can look forward to microsoft curing cancer next year

Gaza is the second intellectual shock I've had in my life: it shows the prevalence of psychopaths among otherwise well-functioning, seemingly civilized people. Few people are genuinely virtuous; they just act that way under the minority rule of the truly virtuous.

Terence McKenna, good lord

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

Jeff Bezos’s wedding cost $50 million which is $20 million more than the U.S. government has spent on math research this year. We’re gutting science funding to fund tax cuts for billionaires.

I was always led to believe that scientists are inherently skeptical. But one of my most disillusionary discovery is that they are - broadly speaking - even more credulous than non-scientists when it comes to politics and culture. It genuinely makes me question the entire

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Everyone working in a STEM field should read this - ‘writing is thinking’ nature.com/articles/s4422…

Our paper was just published in the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. Up to 82% with neurological disorders have diagnosed mental disorders. The divide between mental & physical health is imaginary.

Would I find, in that relentless beating, in that deep drawn breath, the same proof I carry, that we are both tethered to the same air, the same fragile fire, whether we want to or not?