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Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · 16d

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Harvard’s Public Health Dean Was Paid $150,000 to Testify Tylenol Causes Autism | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli received at least $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in 2023 — two years before he published research used by the Trump admini...

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Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · 23d

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Trump imposes $100K fee on H-1B visas in new immigration action | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump signed an executive action on Friday to impose a $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas — in an effort to curb what the administration says is overuse of the program.

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Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Aug 30

Couldn't they have just used the free version ? Or Google offers its LLM for free up to a certain extent too.

Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Aug 21

Percentiles are smoothened over a 3 year rolling baseline for a given SRG, which is why a didn't dip in priority scores would affect it. At least for a while till it recovers (which is what you see in your graph)

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Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Aug 20

Aren't study section terms typically for 4 years? It could well be that a small group reviewers got recruited around the same time. It's one vote, sure, but hypercritical, loud individuals often sway the vote for unassigned applications too. And all you need is a minor shift down ...

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Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Aug 20

My condolences

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Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Aug 20

Why beat around the bush and wax academic about it? The easiest explanation is that they ended up with a couple of asshole reviewers in the study section ! 😝

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 14

My Letter to the Editor in the Washington Post is online

[Gift Link]

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Opinion | AMA president: NIH is wrong to pivot from mRNA vaccines

Trump once oversaw historic mRNA vaccine development. Why is he abandoning it?

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Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Aug 13

Flybase is like the encyclopedia of everything for fly researchers. Extremely worried about how things will proceed....

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Aug 13

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

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Harvard University lays off fly database team

The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.

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Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Aug 12

In the era of AI, this "out-of the-box" creativity can be trained very easily to "adventurous" trainees (and scientists).

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Calli McMurray @callimcflurry.bsky.social · Jun 4

FlyBase, a crucial resource for drosophila research, has lost its funding because its grant is awarded to Harvard. The team is scrambling to find other sources of funds, including donations from labs. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl... @flybase.bsky.social

FlyBase funding squashed amid Harvard grant terminations

The team behind the Drosophila genetics database is now requesting donations from labs to keep the resource afloat.

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Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Jun 4

Oh gosh ....

Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · Jun 3

Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Drosophila Genetic Database

The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...

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Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Apr 8

You have shown very little courage after losing the election and left the Democrats leaderless All that bombastic talk is just hot air and fake advertising

Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Mar 28

Bye bye Muskwagon - Hello Ioniq .... (if you are considering a switch, added bonus: charges faster, and handles curves better)

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Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Mar 28

Lying scumbag

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Mar 28

Elon Musk has made inaccurate claims about entitlement fraud, how a government payment system works and government survey costs in recent weeks. Here’s a fact-check.

Assessing Elon Musk’s Misleading Claims About Fraud in Government Spending

The world’s richest man made inaccurate claims about entitlement fraud, how a government payment system works and government survey costs.

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Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Mar 25

We are in the middle of a 5-alarm fire with a potential existential risk to our research mission, and faculty politics is tied up in knots about being mandated to instal cybersecurity software ......!

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Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Mar 21

28 articles. Seems like it is reading up peer reviewed published articles to learn.

Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Mar 20

Congratulations 🍾

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Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Mar 18

How can journal editors send back crappy revisions that are >100 pages long with 25 pages of rebuttal??? Just start using F...ing AI to pre-screen.
Such a waste of effort.

Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Mar 14

Jim Corbett wrote of his experiences hunting that a wounded man eating tiger was far more dangerous. Biden & Garland's fumbling created this wounded man eater who is destroying everything precious. In 2020, there was 1 overwhelming responsibility, democracy and they failed miserably 🤬.

Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Mar 14

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Stay safe from online hate with these five tips

In this era of anti-science activism, it‘s wise to take steps to protect your research and reputation in the digital realm.

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Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Mar 14

Without question this is the direct fallout of Biden and Garlands ineptitude and lack of commitment to bring Trump to justice for Jan 6th...... and the world is suffering for it. Unfortunately the worst is yet to come.

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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · Mar 12

In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide.

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NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard Gazette

Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.

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Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Mar 12

Oh ! some of them didn't even have 1-2 papers published from their labs pre-extension.. I perceive that the extension helped changing no to a yes decision in 1/3rd of the cases..

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Anand Ray @anandray.bsky.social · Mar 12

And we generally saw a concomitant lowering of expectations as well ...

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