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I swear, I will never manage to be cynical enough.

I return from traveling to find that my university has hired the VERY credibly accused (and very recent) domestic abuser Beard to be the head coach of our men's basketball team. The administration's position is "he wasn't charged (because his fiancee declined to cooperate with prosecution after she called 911 and filed the report) so get over it." Beard refuses to answer questions, including gimmee's like "Did you hit and choke your fiancee?"

Never have my employer's values been so obviously contrasted with mine. Our university community deserves better, and our student-athletes deserve better. I don't know what comes next, but this isn't okay.

Had a great time at the GenNext Scientific Advisory Board meeting. Always learn something from this great group of scientists, and had a great time doing it!

RT @BGrueskin
It’s easy to get cynical about journalism these days — and then you read this description of how @ayewolfe and @MSTODAYnews just won the Goldsmith prize for uncovering a huge scam with connected Mississippians ripping off poor people mississippitoday.org/the-backc

Or perhaps, just perhaps, the nation’s supposedly leading business newspaper would have better seen these failures coming if they had focused more on market, economic, and business conditions and less on obsessively rooting out the woke menace of women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and veterans(!) gaining token admission to the corridors of power and wealth.

75% of scientists are burned out and pulling back on conferences, peer review, committee membership, etc nature.com/articles/d41586-023

When scientists set boundaries, it not only improves their own personal well-being, but also creates norms that limits are acceptable and healthy

Expect more scrutiny of the 2018 law that reduced regulations on banks with less than $250 billion in assets like Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. Bernie Sanders already calling for repeal —> bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2

@steventdennis How many people have more than $250k in their account AND are unaware of the FDIC insurance limit?

I bet not many.

In any case, it's fascinating to see #statscop twitter fall so publicly and transparently into the prosecutor's fallacy.

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RT @kenklippenstein
“Silicon Valley Bank Chief Executive Officer Greg Becker sold $3.6 million of company stock under a trading plan less than two weeks before the firm disclosed extensive losses that led to its failure.”

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

lnkd.in/eiy4Zy5P

Registration and abstract submissions are now open for the 2023 Mid-South Glycoscience Meeting on June 29th in beautiful Oxford, MS. We have a great slate of invited speakers this year. Abstract submissions for both posters and oral presentations are open. Presentations and posters from trainees are welcome; this is a great venue for trainees to talk about their research. We hope to see you this summer!

For any who are interested, I'm starting a Mass Spec Coding Club!

I set up a Discord server for meetings and discussions and a GitHub page to post content and resources. Details here: github.com/michaelmarty/MassSp

First meeting date to come...

@pwilmart @pastelbio I would argue that this also applies to grant writing... and would love to see open submissions (i.e. whenever you are ready). Data shows that dropping submission deadlines leads to less submissions.

As if people felt compelled to write and submit project when a call opens.

Happy International Women’s Day! 💐

Ways to celebrate:
• Share salaries and negotiation strategies
• Ask women to give talks that are not about being a woman in tech
• Invite women into rooms where decisions are made and intro them to senior people in your company and field
• Spend time leveling up women technically through code reviews
• Offer equal maternity and paternity leave timelines and talk about this in interviews
• Create teams and companies with an affordance for flexible work

Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are essential components of the extracellular matrix, key players in countless cellular functions in health and disease. Yet, the biological roles of GAGs are too often still a mystery, due to their inherent disorder and variable sulfation patterns.

In this review out now in JACS Au ⬇️ we discuss the methods for GAGs discovery available today and present perspectives for future developments with very exciting prospects 1/2 🧵

doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.2c00569

#glycotime

Why am I just finding out now that The 1975 put out a new album?

I guess I know what I'm doing tonight.

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