Joshua Sharp @JoshuaSharp@qoto.org

"How’s this for an idea that should not be controversial: Ban assault rifles, not books."
~@StevenBeschloss

#Meme #Books #BannedBooks #GOP #GunViolence #Guns #SchoolShooting #Tennessee #Nashville

If they cared about kids they’d ban guns instead of books.

4 YEAR OLD: I can't sleep, Daddy. I'm afraid of Frankenstein.
ME: Don't you mean Frankenstein's monster?
4 YEAR OLD: I do not. Personally, I find unethical and irresponsible scientific practice far more terrifying than any monster and so should you.

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 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00633-w

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 —> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2023-03-12/svb-fallout-spreads?srnd=premium#xj4y7vzkg

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

Radley curb-stomps some shitbirds.

https://open.substack.com/pub/radleybalko/p/shrugging-in-the-shadow-of-a-monster?utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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: https://github.com/michaelmarty/MassSpecCodingClub

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 🧵

https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.2c00569

#glycotime