Welp. That's a big change.

NIH cuts indirect costs to 15%. (Big change from the typical indirect costs paid to universities that are in the 50% range.)

I wonder if this will apply to private businesses as well, many of whom had previously negotiated much higher indirect costs. (I've seen 80% and even 100% before.)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/new-nih-policy-will-slash-support-money-to-research-universities/

Want to help preserve data and information that's being removed from US government websites? Got a spare computer and some bandwidth?

Run an instance of the Archive Team Warrior VM and you'll contribute to the distributed downloading and preservation of stuff to the Internet Archive:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1ihalfe/how_you_can_help_archive_us_government_data_right/

It's (relatively) simple to get up and running, and you don't need to have a ton of your own storage space to contribute.

#downloadTheGovernment #uspol

Time to re-hang the winter solstice Writhing Wreathing

#AlgorithmicArt #CreativeCoding #Processing

What does it mean for something to be Turing complete?

I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest blog post.

https://samwho.dev/turing-machines

How to make labs more sustainable: introducing sustainability in academia

By Jeroen Dobbelaere, as part of the @Co_Biologists Sustainability Initiative. The first in a series of posts.

https://www.biologists.com/stories/sustainable-labs-introducing-sustainability-in-academia/

Lengthy, deep reflections on "the end of the Twitter era" from a former employee, @sandofsky --

https://www.sandofsky.com/end-of-twitter/