Reviewers just don’t give grants their due because there’s no accountability. F2F panels must return. In similar vein, I’ve had reviewers ask for things that were ahead in multiple parts of the proposal.

This is a terrible idea and will make funding in Canada even harder to obtain. Instead of this, the government should invest in the Tri-council agencies to increase grant success rates, and organically attract talent from abroad.

I urge fellow scientists to write to their MPs and express how they feel about this, I did. Although I support attracting new talent, this is the wrong approach. We must increase Tri-Agency funding levels first so that they want to come here. This will simply makes things worse for all of us.

This is a dangerous move that will promote spread, mutation, and needless suffering amongst those that are unvaccinated, especially younger children.

Welbanks+2025 try 90 hydrocarbons, finding 5 provide a better fit than DMS or DMDS. Propyne (C3H4) offers the best fit.

Propyne has been seen in Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Titan, so it is plausible for K2-18b.

In other words, DMS and DMDS *vanish* once you include C3H4 in your model.

I should add that this episode, along with DS9's "The Visitor" are my absolute favourite episode of any Star Trek series.

Absolutely my favourite episode of TNG, a true sci-fi classic and a masterstroke of making a truly human story in a sci-fi background, like the old sci-fi masters used to write.