Nick:As you may know already, we are peas in a pod. I remind everyone here gently from time to time in various ways to use their <delete> keys with my missives of questionable merit.
As I age (grow more wise, more complex, more ??) I recognize that my ideations (too much encouraged/supplemented these days by my bar friend GPT) are perhaps "all over the place" relative to other's sensibilities.
When I saw your (and George's) cartoon, I had a sense of "I guess I had to be there", which is why I offered you my parsing.... even though we all know that "a joke should never be explained"...
I also know (from bits of feedback from various quarters) that fractions of my nonsense are parsed and appreciated but not (publicly) acknowledged. I think you should continue (as you do) to share what you might, as you must... even to deafening silence?
:Steve
Steve, and others,Thanks for taking the meme idea seriously for a moment. I have these moments of giddiness in which an idea just seems so good that the world must have it. I actually imagined that my inbox would be full of copies of my own cartoon sent to me by people who did not know its source. Crazy as a loon, I know it, but they are wonderful moments, and I could not write [live?] without them. Narcissism Unbounded. Thanks for playing along.Nick On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM steve smith <[email protected]> wrote:It seems to me they haven’t this through so good. Thousands of NIH, NSF, and DOE funded scientists out on the international market. Add to that reduced regulation on advanced scientific equipment and services. Augment with a general sense of doom and self-interest and alienation from their country of origin. Sounds like a recipe for foreign-based companies to scoop them up, if not other governments. I won’t suggest particulars, but I think it is obvious how this could result in bad outcomes.My molecular biologist daughter is in the breach/sights of this nonsense. She dedicated her career to 3rd-world focused virology (flavi like West Nile, Dingue, Zika) and is now faced with the triple-whammy of reduced funding/interest in third-world problems, reduced *health* funding, and the spirit that suggests as a woman in science she might somehow have gotten her funding through DEI biases. She is not a candidate for "defecting" to China or Russia in this context but has been made crazy by watching her mid-career colleagues defect from academic research to profit-focused big pharma. She got pulled off Flavi's to chase Coronas for a year or more because her institution had more funding than they could spend and her funding was a little more fungible... I think she can (probably) hang in there through the current storm (years) but not clear and it might actually be better for her (career) to move to a European Institution (though I don't know if that is even possible given what EricS suggested about demand/supply. After the fall of the Soviet Union, I participated in a brief project reviewing US State Dept proposals by (former) Soviet scientists seeking an alternative to becomeing rogue nuclear scientists for who knows? Seems like we are about to have our own problem of that nature? .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ -- Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology Clark University [email protected] https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoomhttps://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribehttp://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIChttp://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru presenthttps://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
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