John Benning
@_jbenning
humanist, scientist, optimist | assistant professor, Cornell EEB
Hilarious touch that Trump is actually very good at doodling and denying it!
apparently at a 2004 charity auction in iowa, trump was neck in neck with clay aiken for top selling doodle. there's no pic of clay aiken's drawing but here's one by betty white!
USAID will be back. Do not give up hope. Do not accept Trump's horrendous foreign policy decisions as permanent. That fatalism only becomes self-fulfilling.
What a remarkable--and pointless--loss for NOAA and for the United States.
Our final updates have been posted to the Climate.gov website, and this will be our final post to our social media channels.
ad to come, but I'm looking for an M.S. student to work on conservation genomics of swift foxes on the American Prairie Reserve (MT) starting 9/1. this is a collab w/ Smithsonian & Justine Becker; strong candidates will have genomics experience and be up for remote fieldwork
this is like kendrick vs drake but with two drakes
I think the modal view amongst academics is "universities are in serious need of reform, but not this crazy-ass vindictive shit".
There is an extraordinary "reproducibility crisis" in the sciences, particularly in biology, where most published papers fail to replicate. Most universities have massive bureaucracies that inhibit the translation of basic research into commercial adoption. The voting…
If any PhD student working in computational biology is displaced by this most recent tumult and is looking for a new lab, I have room for one (or potentially two) PhD students in my group. Feel free to reach out via email.
I think it’s reasonable to be annoyed by complaints about college admissions, but also important to be kind about it when the complainer is an 18-year-old. If you can’t find it in your heart to forgive an 18-year-old for being a little annoying I’ve got bad news for you…
I wrote about how population stratification in genetic analyses led to a decade of false findings and almost certainly continues to bias emerging results. But we are starting to have statistical tools to sniff it out. A 🧵:
if you believe the revolution will be led by the richest person in the world then I don't know if you really get revolutions
The indiscriminate and ill-conceived slashing of indirects by the @NIH yesterday must be amended if want to restore America’s leadership role biomedical research. 15% simply isn’t enough for institutions to provide the basic infrastructure needed to run a successful lab. I say…
The following two things are true: progress in AI is amazing, and also AI hype is out of control. If you can't keep these two things in your head at the same time you're "ngmi" as they say.
I just told my stats class "To use LLMs to help understand things you do, rather than to help do things you dont understand" and that might be my new AI policy