Heidi Tandy (is not sharing/posting legal advice) 💫

Such great panels with @efforums.bsky.social at #dragoncon this year! One more today…..

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Transformative Work of the Day

"What is at stake is not conceptual or theoretical or ivory tower but instead intimate and personal. This is about the health of your grandmother and grandfather, your mother and father, your sister and brother, your children and grandchildren, and your spouse. This is realism, not alarmism."

Researchers from MD Anderson Cancer Center & Fred Hutch Cancer Center have uncovered how genome-wide hypertranscription, a hallmark of many cancers, may drive tumor progression & predict poor prognosis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #CancerResearch #PrecisionOncology #Hypertranscription #Genomics

Another good piece on the impacts of NIH cuts on research by @inquirer.com, featuring @noranewcombe.bsky.social and yours truly. www.msn.com/en-us/health...

Instead of what they are — grand projects to save and improve lives. Including, fwiw, his.

Thank you, Moon, for being perfectly sized and located to have us eclipses of the sun!

Transformative Work of the Omgwtfday

Current Playlist: a mashup of Legally Blonde & Bring It On

And this is why we didn’t get that next season of Yellowstone

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.

Excellent by @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy on the Trumpian war on science in the USA, and how it has killed, and will kill hundreds of thousands open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

This is what happens when people think they’re techies or coders but don’t know BASIC or anything basic.

This is only the first three letters.

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The Public Domain Image Archive is a newly launched “curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, free for all to explore and reuse”. Careful, you could lose some hours in here… [kottke.org]

Not convinced that research spending might be such a good investment? Take a look at the far-reaching impact of the NIH — an institution dedicated to improving human lives through scientific discovery. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Every safety regulation was written in blood, frequently with a body count higher than one, and it’s not political to put the blame on people who want to “move fast and break things” when they start breaking human lives.

Maybe regulations and keeping qualified, experienced people in their positions is a good thing for the United States and our safety and security. But, I guess it's more important to destroy the "woke mind virus."

Trump’s White House OMB rescinds #freeze on federal funds. They may try again. Argue against it if they do.

The winner of the 2025 Internet Archive Public Domain contest, where the 130+ contestants were encouraged to use recent public domain works to make a brand new remix, is really a different level. "When I Leave the World Behind" Queline Meadows archive.org/details/when...

U Chicago: Do not start new experiments. That includes cancer research, diabetes research, chemistry research - everything that has kept the USA at the forefront of research, health, safety, product development and small business impacts. What's the administration's rationale? Is there any? (No.)

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

Is it bad that Donald Trump stopped paying the guards who were locking up ISIS militants, guys

DeepSeek jailbreak

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously. Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause." They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

And these advances have helped more than just the field of proteomics, many of the advances in MS-based metabolomics and glycomics have built upon this NIH funded work.

Never, ever let anyone tell you that there is no "moderator's dilemma" in the U.S. because of Section 230. Not when it took Vimeo SIXTEEN YEARS of litigation to defeat claims that ordinary content moderation created "knowledge" or "control," hence forfeiting the DMCA safe harbor for copyright.

The Inspectors General refuse to leave until the action is taken legally, which they do not believe it was, and neither do senators like Chuck Grassley. This is what not backing down looks like. static.politico.com/b3/3e/5baf92...

Fuck cancer and fuck the idiots who write and approved this deadly and idiotic demand.

The Patent Office and the Trademark Office both.

RIP to the absolute legend Jules Feiffer: political cartoonist, social satirist, comics historian, illustrated the Phantom Tollbooth, wrote screenplays for Robert Altman and Alain Resnais—and that’s the short version