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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 13d

Was your third word drift?

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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart @catharsistheater.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Once, eccentric patrons funded wild dreams — radar in a mansion, secret codes in Shakespeare, scrolls from Vesuvius. Today, philanthropy feels safe and bureaucratic. What if wild giving could revive science, health and imagination?
🔗 www.palladiummag.com/2025/08/22/t...
@stuartbuck.bsky.social

The Case for Crazy Philanthropy

www.palladiummag.com

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 28

Lucky:

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 20

Anyway, thanks for continuing to raise important issues!

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 19

I would never block you or Joe Bak-Coleman, because I am fine with (and even appreciate) being challenged. For me, blocking is only for people who are very disruptive or insulting. Not just because someone politely disagreed.

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 19

I basically agree, I guess, but I also think it's poor epistemics to block someone when the apparent reason is "they made an argument that I find inconvenient to answer." I hadn't said anything remotely disrespectful to him at that point.

PS: you're definitely debating (disagreeing) with me! :)

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 19

you're debating right now! :)

anyway, the only bad faith I see is the refusal to address an obvious counterpoint: are all people who work on a problem (reproducibility, anti-Semitism) to blame when a malignant politician weaponizes that issue? if not, why not?

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 18

When we funded Prasad, he was working on medical reversals and was writing stuff like this: www.statnews.com/2016/05/09/m...

I can't control what someone does 8-10 years in the future.

Don’t believe what you read on new report of medical error deaths

Take the "news" that medical errors are the third leading cause of death with a grain of salt. Medical errors are poorly defined, and that estimate has been around for awhile.

www.statnews.com

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 18

Maybe we should have a Department of Government Efficiency:
goodscience.substack.com/p/the-case-f...

The Case for a "Department of Government Efficiency"

There ought to be a federal department exclusively focused on making government work better, that is, government efficiency.

goodscience.substack.com

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 18

Carl Bergstrom blocked me for this post! Didn't know he was like that.

Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 13

Good point. In fact, one might as well denounce anyone who has ever criticized anti-Semitism because they are somehow responsible for Trump weaponizing that idea against Columbia and Harvard.

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 14

New guest post!
goodscience.substack.com/p/nasa-is-wo...

NASA Is Worth Saving

Guest Column by Casey Handmer

goodscience.substack.com

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 14

*who's

Thanks for the plug, I guess!

Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 13

"so many"? I can think of arguably 2 people who might be what you're describing.

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 13

Good point. In fact, one might as well denounce anyone who has ever criticized anti-Semitism because they are somehow responsible for Trump weaponizing that idea against Columbia and Harvard.

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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · Jun 10

Showing which proposals do AND don’t receive federal funding can improve research and advance open science, @stuartbuck.bsky.social & @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy write. In fact, US funding agencies are required by law to provide much of this data already:

Let Unfunded Grant Applications See the Light of Day

Showing which proposals do and don’t receive federal funding can improve research and advance open science.

issues.org

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 8

And how does each red light have a different area in which other lights could occur? The size of stoplights isn't standard any more?

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 8

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 · Jun 8

Nothing about that makes sense.

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 8

But why are workers staying motionless the while time, and why are there red lights hanging in mid-air with no apparent support or reason for being there?

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 7

* several stoplights hanging in mid-air for no reason

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 7

Looks like an AI video.

* the people on the left don't move a muscle
* where exactly is a tree-lined railroad that is that close to the Washington Monument?
* tanks don't look real

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 7

That video looks fake.

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 5

Or:

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · Jun 5

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · Jun 5

“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Jun 4

New piece on NIH reform:

paragoninstitute.org/public-healt...

Fixing the Engine of American Science: Why NIH Needs Urgent Reform

This paper calls for NIH to fix outdated structures and bureaucracy while boosting innovation, transparency, and trust in biomedical research

paragoninstitute.org

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