Think of the stock market - smart investors buy a “basket” of shares in multiple companies as you can’t really predict which companies will succeed long term. Governments don’t get this anywhere in the West - despite the basket approach being demonstrable better than picking “winners”. #FundBroadly

and reviewers who say “this is the best grant in my pile” for 6 of the 11 they were assigned. Dude! we have short term memories.

hilarious

at the end of the day, as I tell my students all the time, the only thing that you really have going for you is your reputation. Mess up, falsify one time and your career is over. Or should be if the system works

I want got data in the form of an Excel spreadsheet where each cell was encoded numerically and by color. Every cell was an individually pasted PDF. Can’t be worse than that.

the most awesome thing i’ve seen on bluesky today!