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white_aster) wrote2025-06-11 12:54 pmWhat We Weading Wednesday
Currently Reading:
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie - I remember reading a few early Abercrombie books and liking them while thinking they were just a bit overlong and overwrought. That's still my view, but I am weak to heists and this one is entertaining if you can stand Abercrombie's particularly grungy and body-fluid-spattered style.
The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov - :sigh: I'd evidently put it on my holds list even though I didn't enjoy the last one very much, and I took it just with an air of "oh fine, whatever". I suspect that i am going to DNF this, as there will be the recurrence of a character who I thought was really stupidly dealt with in the last Robots book (someone who's let off the hook for a murder because of egregiously -ist reasons that I just can't overlook).
Just Finished: Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland and That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human by Kimberly Lemming. Both very good. The former is um..."pirates+heist+surprisingly complex interpersonal dynamics+hyperactive main character who is a Whole Mood". Loved it! The latter is "very light-hearted but still quite funny fantasy romance about two grumpy people falling in love oh and one is a dragon".
Up Next: I'd still like to read Living with the Devil: A Meditation on Good and Evil by Stephen Batchelor again. Also I'll be picking up my copy of Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes today. I dunno, I have had a solid hit and a very bad miss with this author, we'll see how this one lands.
white_aster) wrote2025-06-11 12:21 pm(no subject)
NIH scientists call on director to protect biomedical research
Hundreds of scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a call for action they dubbed the Bethesda Declaration on Monday to push back against cutbacks and changes at the biomedical research agency.
I'd like to point out that the people who signed this are actual people who work directly for NIH. It is extremely brave for them to speak out like this, especially since it's so unlikely that anyone will listen to them.
ysobel) wrote2025-06-04 04:20 pmfollowup on the art thing
I got an email from the art dude announcing that he's temporarily opening registration to his courses.
(Still full price, just you usually can't sign up, just get on the waiting list. Which I had not explicitly done.)
I unsubscribed. Grumpily.
I can understand his logic -- entering a contest to get X indicates interest in X -- but this wasn't opt-in, and it should have been '