Monthly archives: February, 2025

Fighting for science effectively

Pushing the frontiers of medicine, science, and technology takes highly trained people and extensive specialized infrastructure. You can’t just hire a self-taught coder off the internet and hand them a laptop…



Executive orders

Executive orders are powerful actions that can have catastrophic consequences. They merit thoughtful analysis and research prior to enactment.

EO 9066 interned US citizens and resulted in their loss…



Indirect costs are research costs

I am disappointed to read comments from people who have been PIs on NIH and NSF grants for years, sometimes decades, and they don’t understand what indirect costs pay for. They’re not necessarily…



Sometimes science catches up

That’s a quote from Rick Rubin.

When I speak to a general audience, I sometimes show this clip (start at 2:52) from Fantastic Voyage and say:

How can we study the brain? What does it…