Kristine Willis
@kristine_willis@mstdn.science
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Systems biologist, data scientist, policy wonk, runner. Former NIH-funded investigator, former NIH program official. Founder, Woodley Park Institute. Writing about understanding and accelerating scientific progress at theprogressbarwpi.org
Supportive of this necessary move, but it highlights a question I’ve increasingly wrestled with: how do you balance the need for Mertonian universalism with the need to establish trust, especially in a system where there are definite bad actors? #metascience
ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop | Science | AAAS
https://www.science.org/content/article/arxiv-preprint-server-clamps-down-ai-slop
BroadwaybabytoThe measles outbreak in South Carolina is the largest in the country and has spread to three other states.
It’s growing at an alarming speed.
Over 500 people in quarantine and 200 are actively infected.
This was completely preventable.
These people didn’t need to get sick.
Measles can kill. It can disable. It can leave you deaf and blind.
It’s a vaccine preventable illness.
Shame on everyone creating distrust in the vaccine and refusing to do their part for public health.
Inspirational Skeletor💀
RE: https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/health-2g9ldae7z/-/a-V5LX7TKbSay96SZ6TsukiA%3Aa%3A3199692-%2F0
Three cheers for CAR-T !! A little good news in the world
New at The Progress Bar: The system for funding science is fundamentally broken. To fix it, we need to do more than change who gets funded, we need to change how funding decisions are made.
Ugh. I really really want to run and it is 48F and raining. Worst running weather ever.
For anyone not familiar with the NIH org chart, Mike Lauer was the Director for Extramural Research, generally considered the third most senior official at the agency.
It is extraordinary, and to my knowledge, unprecedented for someone from leadership to be so publicly critical.