Dr. Roger Albin, a neurologist at the University of Michigan, writes: Thanks for posting on the NIH demarche on indirect cost rates. As commented in the NYT article, this would severely wound ...

I suspect, is motivated mostly by the need to save money to fund tax cuts for Trump and other members of the plutocracy: The National Institutes of Health announced a new policy Friday to cap a ...

The Holmesian "Bad Man" does not believe in legal (or constitutional) obligations: the only relevance of the law is that it affects the calculation of what is in his interest. If the probability of ...

A friend who is reading my CUP Divine Hiddenness book manuscript suggested that readers today tend to skip right over introductions and to start reading in earnest with chapter one. He ...

MANY INFORMATIVE COMMENTS, MORE WELCOME, INCLUDING CORRECTIONS OR UPDATED STIPEND INFORMATION Previous discussions on the blog have noted the bad funding situation for PhD students in philosophy in ...

ANOTHER UPDATE Story here. (A "go fund me" campaign for his legal fees has been started here.) "Fuck Landry" and "fuck Trump" are admirable sentiments, but it's not clear they ...

The sheer amount of work seems to be increasing exponentially, and not just in terms of scale but the number of vectors it’s all happening on too. It is impossible to be a top-line manager and ...

I've been periodically announcing open access books, sometimes in the Cambridge Elements series, where books are available for free for a couple of weeks or a month upon publication, and sometimes ...

As of this writing, the United States Health and Human Services is still under a communications embargo. Agencies such as the CDC, NIH, FDA and 10 others remain unable to communicate to the ...

Law professor Steven Vladeck explains the constitutional and legal issues; a few excerpts: In essence, the Trump administration is claiming the unilateral power to at least temporarily “impound” tens ...

Philosopher Colin Marshall writes This year, the Central APA will be online, following the 2+1 Campaign in 2021-22. Under the 2+1 model, one of the three divisional APA meetings each year will be ...

The effect — and I believe purpose — of these pardons is to encourage vigilantes and militias loyal to the president, but unaccountable to the government. Illiberal democracies and outright ...