It’s one of the great chastening facts of working with systems that the part of a system that malfunctions is almost never the part in which you notice the malfunction.
Edward Snowden: Permanent Record
Malsewhere.
Academia vs Science.
I don’t see a sustainable science coming out of the meaningless game of excellence, publishing, and grant writing.
What my research indicated is that detecting and correcting issues in science, is too difficult to be sustainable. What my research also indicated, is that going back to the drawing board allows us to tackle issues in a much more straightforward, simplistic, and encompassing manner.
And if there’s an anecdotal thing I’ve learned: People want futures they can be a part of and experience, not just ones to think about and fight for.
Chris Hartgerink: Reflections on my PhD and building sustainable science. (medium.com)
Woningsdag.
It's always been a weird tradition, and now it shows.
Freess.
A free press is indispensable for a functioning society of free citizens. Opponents of freedom try to discredit reliable news agencies by sowing doubt. The least we can do is spend time and effort to get informed by the news that talented and courageous journalists bring to us and that others do not want us to read.
M-x midnight-madness.
If you run one Emacs session for a period of days, as many people do, it can fill up with buffers that you used several days ago.