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Mostly doing science or drawing stuff, or both. Currently PhD at AMOLF with Sander Tans and Jeroen van Zon

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Something similar is going with Molecular biology/genetics' ongoing expansion. For instance, paleogenetics as a field is completely dominated by geneticist solving the questions that used to belong to archeologists. The method dominates!

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Reflecting on this passage by @tylercowen and wondering if what is happening to economics is similar to what happened to anthropology in late 20c.

ie. Anthropology was once the study of premarket/pre-state peoples but became the a synonym for “ethnography.” Economics was once the study of economic markets but has become synonymous with “econometrics.” In both cases the tool has swallowed up the original object of study.

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@GorinGennady Ah I see, I agree I would not expect them to flip. But also struggle a bit with imagining how normalization by total DNA would introduce negative or absent correlations if they were not already there prior to technical variance. Do you have an intuition for this?

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@GorinGennady I was wondering why you would not expect the correlations to decrease? As I understand it normalization aims to account for technical variation in capture efficiency between cells, which is a shared parameter for a cell's nascent and mature RNA?

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@PunishedLuddite Hoeft niet per se gesloopt toch? Zou gewoon wat dingen overeind laten staan tussen de containers en fabrieken in:

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@tolstoybb Who is Dunham's Handke?

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@NewLeftEViews I guess that there are three modestly succesful social democratic parties in Europe, Denmark, Norway and Spain, which are so different that it is unclear what their succes teaches us.

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@tolstoybb @JA00245017 Best book about the USA ever

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@NewLeftEViews The threats of violence probably start out rather performative to impressive and entertain the 'audience' can lead to real life consequences.

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@NewLeftEViews In the Netherlands, which has probably less poverty and way less knife crime, the most prominent knife crime incidents seemed to have been fueled by social media. Perpetrators/victims would insult eachother on livestreams, with viewers/friends egging them on.

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@BrankoMilan If Trump would threaten to throw an A-bomb on Beijing the stock market would decline reducing wealth inequality as well. Oxfam would probably still object, must be secret right wingers.

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@BrankoMilan The state can use the taxes to invest? Does not seem too deep of a question.

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@BrankoMilan Arguably it is impossible to run a biomedical research program without liberal scientists. That would give them some bargaining power against the state, but only if researchers organize across institutions. Unfortunately not seeing any solidarity between universities currently.

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@BrankoMilan How can this not be about money? The state funds almost 100% of its core business, (biomedical) research, and apparently these NIH grants are structured such that they can be cancelled on a whim. For independence they would have to become an education-only institution.

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@mbeisen Is there anyway you can slice the population to find a subgroup where the risks of getting covid were lower than the risk of vaccine side-effects?

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@phl43 @Multipolar_CCY But in that case, it is not so ironic if the falling-out was over the 'outrageous' deal. I think this Trump term will turn out to be less ironic/funny/etcetera than the first term, only stupid/ugly.

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@enzoreds @daanmulderdaan @janeseviction @hanno_sauer And I hope that when you say that your students like 'internationalization' it is not for these reasons. Because if that is the case I don't see much point in defending the University anyway.

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@enzoreds @daanmulderdaan @janeseviction @hanno_sauer I am just much less convinced by your 'economic' arguments. They strike as either very narrow, only looking at the faculty level efficiencies and outcomes. Or just not appealing at all, like your point about big multinationals not hiring dutch students anymore. 3/

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@enzoreds @daanmulderdaan @janeseviction @hanno_sauer And if you do not grow another might get your piece of the pie. Not an ideal system, although plenty of megalomaniac university boards like these type of competitive games of course.

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@enzoreds @daanmulderdaan @janeseviction @hanno_sauer It is confusingly labeled but should be university spending I think. To me it also feels like a collective action problem. There is a slightly growing or shrinking pie (depending on parties in power), for which universities and faculties compete by growing. 1/