My Binx was always such a help🪽🐈‍⬛💕

The point is that she hasn’t had to hire security because of you

Thank goodness I read this review before reading the book and discovering the episode where he boils a dead cat. Entire novel is now off limits for me. I do appreciate trigger warnings if hurting cats or children is to be a dramatic device.

Another inexplicable move from which absolutely nobody will benefit! Public health policies based on the study of disease spread are principally why our lifespans have doubled in the last century. Handwashing & clean water are miracles of public health, pushing back killers like cholera and TB.

An echo chamber relies on shutting one's mind/environment to a certain viewpoint.

Imposing reasonable expectations regarding the manner of delivery on the other hand promotes the quality of discourse and the rhetorical force of *all* viewpoints.

All true -to paraphrase Otto Bettman, the good old days were terrible! I’m just saying that things are significantly better now (or at least they have been) than whatever decade or century MAGA wants to be nostalgic for. Trump is pushing us backward and that is a hugely awful, alarming prospect.

Yes, shame hasn’t always been a perfect barrier against evil. But we have actually come a long way and fought a Civil War and passed a bunch of laws to cement that progress. I’m just hearing a lot of despair that everything is and always has been horrible. What we need is outrage and pushback.

"I could be a mentor to this very sharp person but as they aren't interested in me romantically I'm going to have to cut off all communication with them."

"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."

For NDs, the discussion doesn’t happen robustly and that’s when the scores can change a lot, and errors and misunderstandings can get corrected. Also, most do strive to write careful critiques on their own but discussion helps focus less experienced reviewers who are often junior faculty themselves.

Sure, but people used to expect better character in men running for high office. There have always been horrible scumballs and somehow there was enough social pressure to keep the worst of them either hiding their behavior or getting found out and removed. Still happens-see e.g. Matt Gaetz.

In my dozen years on NIH study sections, grants pulled out of the triage bin for discussions never moved into funding range. But there’s a huge difference between getting ND and getting serious critiques that can help scientists refine or redirect their efforts. This is a loss esp for jr scientists.