#research committee

[sciencesolutions]

#india #organisation #science #solutions #safety #genetically #organism #research committee #genetic #manipulation #council #industrial #research #medical #engineering #RCGM #csi siblings #ICMR #GEAC

[reality-detective]

Dr. John Coleman - The Committee of 300 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think about it #think for yourselves #think for yourself #do your homework #do some research #do your own research #ask yourself questions #question everything #dr. john coleman #committee of 300 #hidden history #history lesson #history #you decide

[stuckinapril]

honestly crazy how much trial by fire we had to go through for bioethics to find a place in biomedical research. 23 nazi doctors were accused of crimes against humanity during the nuremberg war crime trials. from 1932 all the way through 1972, black american men were (unbeknownst to them) subjects in the phs study of untreated syphilis, and weren't even offered treatment when it became available. the revolting willowbrook trials, where mentally disabiled children were deliberately infected w hepatitis. the jewish chronic disease hospital study, where cancer cells were. on purpose. injected into cognitively impaired patients. fucking wild and crazy and insane. this is why the national act and the belmont report and 38736 other regulations exist. i cannot imagine being a doctor or clinical researcher during that time and just 1000% doing this w no conscience.

#this is why as a pre-med student i try to keep books on bioethics in my rotation all the time #and i'm rly enjoying the history modules i was assigned before i start my neuro hospital internship. #i want to know all this stuff. i want to constantly be questioning review committees. #bc i rly truly care about becoming an ethical physician one day. and currently an ethical clinical research scholar #i don't want to blindly accept what my superiors say like i actually want to know how this stuff works #it's also all super fascinating #the healthcare system is still hella broken these days but it's just in more insidious ways lol #major tangent but i wanted to document all these studies so i could pick up books/articles on them #text

[artigas]

you know, when i was a senior in undergrad i had an english professor tell me that i was wasting my time trying to be an academic because nobody was ever going to hire me - while it’s true that getting a job in academia is a nightmare, he made it personal. He told me nobody is interested in hiring someone like me to approach the victorian era from a queer and anti-racist vantage point. and i got so angry and so heartbroken i left the english department crying!

and now i work there, at that english department, and the office i work in is right across that professor.

and you would think that means that i would've been better prepared when a different professor (at a different institution) told me yesterday that nobody is going to hire me and that my research idea is garbage and borderline offensive and i'm wasting my time. like, you would think i wouldn't have gotten so knocked off my ass but i've been so unthinkably miserable for the pass 24-48 hours and it's killing me

#i waited two months to talk to this man only for him to fuck over my entire research project and comps list : ) #so now i have to find a third person for my committee bc he's clearly not interested in being on my team lol #and now i'm just on a huge spiral about what to do and wether or not i've just fucked myself over big time with this latin american gothic #*idea #personal

[drawwithmis]

What made the ancients put you three on the same wall? How old are you in comparison to other iterators?

- At least, until even communications between us ceased.

Artist: Artie @art-n-artie

Hey I'm BACK! Artblock kicked me really hard but I finally found a style that works for my additions to this blog! Haven't heard from BD in a while, huh

#rainworld #digital art #artists on tumblr #iterator #rain world oc #ask the wildlife research committee #answered asks #rw oc bd #rw oc mi #rw oc np

[garadinervi]

Three Killed, Fifty Injured in South Carolina Shootings: Black Students Are Victims of Trigger Happy White Cops, Liberation News Service, LNS 39, Washington D.C., February 9, 1968 [Cleveland L. Sellers, Jr. Papers, 1934-2003, Lowcountry Digital Library, Charleston, SC. © Avery Research Center, Charleston, SC]

(plus: Feb. 8, 1968: Orangeburg Massacre, Zinn Education Project, Washington, D.C.)

#typewriting #orangeburg massacre #samuel hammond jr. #delano middleton #henry smith #liberation news service #cathy archibold #student nonviolent coordinating committee #sncc #cleveland l. sellers jr. papers #lowcountry digital library #avery research center #zinn education project #1960s

[tiffanyachings]

‘task involving a series of steps that need to be completed in a specific order’ voted greatest enemy of getting things done for 25th year in a row

#if i want us deliver active travel projects faster we need to resource the team properly and fix some legislation #to resource the team properly we need budget figures that parties can use in their next budget proposals #to fix legislation we need to write to scotgov ministers #to ask council to do both of these things i need to bring motions to committee #to write the motions i need to talk to the relevant officers to make sure i'm not missing anything #to talk to officers i need to arrange meetings with them #before i can arrange the meetings i need to understand where my knowledge gaps are and prepare questions accordingly #to prepare for the meetings i need to do a fuckton of research #I'M AT STEP 1 #fieldwork #tecposting

[maggot-monger]

i guess i just have strong opinions about what matters and what doesn't when it comes to teaching and if i think something doesn't matter i have a hard time implementing policies about it. i don't want to enforce a policy i can't justify to my students and/or myself. i think this is a good way to be but the administration does not always agree with me about that lmao

#my adivising committee agrees with me but also thinks i need to care less bc i should be focused on research #and they're right but idk if i don't care who is going to care! this is a bad system

[sunflowermp4]

(im NOT saying "dont call ur reps" so nobody twist my words!!!!!!!!!!!)

however it is very frustrating and discouraging and demoralizing to live in a gerrymandered district where my congress rep is a bloodthirsty warmongering republican who IS in the foreign affairs committee but has been exclusively using his position to push the most violent racist jingoistic shit. like yeah i'm still gonna call and email but i wish our voices held the actual power that we deserve

#especially bc (from my understanding of the bill process) the ceasefire bill is unlikely to make it out of committee #i would love to be proven wrong + i will be doing more research it's just a constant kick in the face to be reminded of how much #america's governmental systems are built to protect profit and war and power etc etc etc #makes me fucking sick

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

As the national security workforce ages, dementia impacting U.S. officials poses a threat to national security, according to a first-of-its-kind study by a Pentagon-funded think tank. The report, released this spring, came as several prominent U.S. officials trusted with some of the nation’s most highly classified intelligence experienced public lapses, stoking calls for resignations and debate about Washington’s aging leadership.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who had a second freezing episode last month, enjoys the most privileged access to classified information of anyone in Congress as a member of the so-called Gang of Eight congressional leadership. Ninety-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., whose decline has seen her confused about how to vote and experiencing memory lapses — forgetting conversations and not recalling a monthslong absence — was for years a member of the Gang of Eight and remains a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on which she has served since 2001.

The study, published by the RAND Corporation’s National Security Research Division in April, identifies individuals with both current and former access to classified material who develop dementia as threats to national security, citing the possibility that they may unwittingly disclose government secrets.

“Individuals who hold or held a security clearance and handled classified material could become a security threat if they develop dementia and unwittingly share government secrets,” the study says.

As the study notes, there does not appear to be any other publicly available research into dementia, an umbrella term for the loss of cognitive functioning, despite the fact that Americans are living longer than ever before and that the researchers were able to identify several cases in which senior intelligence officials died of Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive brain disorder and the most common cause of dementia.

“As people live longer and retire later, challenges associated with cognitive impairment in the workplace will need to be addressed,” the report says. “Our limited research suggests this concern is an emerging security blind spot.”

Most holders of security clearances, a ballooning class of officials and other bureaucrats with access to secret government information, are subject to rigorous and invasive vetting procedures. Applying for a clearance can mean hourslong polygraph tests; character interviews with old teachers, friends, and neighbors; and ongoing automated monitoring of their bank accounts and other personal information. As one senior Pentagon official who oversees such a program told me of people who enter the intelligence bureaucracy, “You basically give up your Fourth Amendment rights.”

Yet, as the authors of the RAND report note, there does not appear to be any vetting for age-related cognitive decline. In fact, the director of national intelligence’s directive on continuous evaluation contains no mention of age or cognitive decline.

While the study doesn’t mention any U.S. officials by name, its timing comes amid a simmering debate about gerontocracy: rule by the elderly. Following McConnell’s first freezing episode, in July, Google searches for the term “gerontocracy” spiked.

“The President called to check on me,” McConnell said when asked about the first episode. “I told him I got sandbagged,” he quipped, referring to President Joe Biden’s trip-and-fall incident during a June graduation ceremony at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, which sparked conservative criticisms about the 80-year-old’s own functioning.

While likely an attempt by McConnell at deflecting from his lapse, Biden’s age has emerged as a clear concern to voters, including Democrats. 69% of Democrats say Biden is “too old to effectively serve” another term, an Associated Press-NORC poll found last month. The findings were echoed by a CNN poll released last week that found that 67% of Democrats said the party should nominate someone else, with 49% directly mentioning Biden’s age as their biggest concern.

As Commander In Chief, the President is the nation’s ultimate classification authority, with the extraordinary power to classify and declassify information broadly. No other American has as privileged access to classified information as the president.

The U.S.’s current leadership is not only the oldest in history, but also the number of older people in Congress has grown dramatically in recent years. In 1981, only 4% of Congress was over the age of 70. By 2022, that number had spiked to 23%.

In 2017, Vox reported that a pharmacist had filled Alzheimer’s prescriptions for multiple members of Congress. With little incentive for an elected official to disclose such an illness, it is difficult to know just how pervasive the problem is. Feinstein’s retinue of staffers have for years sought to conceal her decline, having established a system to prevent her from walking the halls of Congress alone and risk having an unsupervised interaction with a reporter.

Despite the public controversy, there’s little indication that any officials will resign — or choose not to seek reelection.

After years of speculation about her retirement, 83-year-old Speaker Emerita Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., stunned observers when she announced on Friday that she would run for reelection, seeking her 19th term.

#us politics #news #republicans #Democrats #boomers #Gang of Eight #sen. Mitch Mcconnell #sen. Diane Feinstein #rep. nancy pelosi #Senate Intelligence Committee #the pentagon #classified information #RAND Corporation #National Security Research Division #national security #dementia #cognitive decline #Alzheimer’s disease #security clearances #Fourth Amendment #gerontocracy #president joe biden #us congress #2023 #the intercept

[identityquest]

This is the design I created for the nonprofit we worked with. Their museum panels are made on trifold 36x48 posterboards, so they can be easily transported when they do community outreach events.

This board conveys the history of two schools that served the local black community before desegregation, and includes photographs and quotes from alumni and professors who attended and taught at the schools before and during desegregation. I tried to capture the overwhelmingly positive feelings that graduates had towards the school and its teachers, while being respectful of the history of the area and the ultimate fate of the sites.

While I did the work to put this together, I wouldn't have been able to make it without the team I'm part of. I owe a huge thanks to my supervisor, the team lead, and one of our copyrighters for helping me get this together.

#graphic design #i hope they like what i've made. I was working from a handmade board that was mostly photographs and next to no information #the board was made by/for the reunion committee but its left on location in the time between reunions to serve as an educational piece #while it was made by the graduates it spends most of its time as a museum panel so i felt it necessary to include more context #this was incredible to work with. researching was very difficult because of the scarcity of information but im glad for it #i know more about the city i live in and the people around me and i feel like im making a positive impact

[werewolf-transgenderism]

lord give me the strength to send this email

#realistically? I have worked with this person. they know my research interests align with theirs. the worst that can happen is they say no #they're on leave this fall so like they could say no. and then I'd still have two other people I could ask to chair the committee #but on the other hand: emails my beloathéd #I've been drafting this for days I simply need to send it and then close my email for the weekend #manifesting 'Miles organize your fucking comps committee' energy

[drawwithmis]

Why is major inconvenience called major inconvenience?

I do wonder if sometimes, he resents them for giving him such a crass name, or if he has with time come to terms with it

- Better Dreamscape

( art by @art-n-artie )

#rain world #rainworld #rain world oc #ask blog #ask the wildlife research committee #iterator #ancient #answered asks #slugbrain-thoughts #rw oc MI #rw oc BD #BD POV

[sailforvalinor]

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#me starting in on my honors project proposal: wait a hot sec I have no idea what I’m doing #like seriously they’ve given me some guidelines but what is the thing actually supposed to look like? #most of the instructions are given under the assumption that you’re doing a research project not writing a novel #also they’ve asked for it single-spaced?? who does that??? #I really need to get this done tonight so I can get it to the professors on my committee but I haven’t a clue what I’m doing

[numinousnic]

truly honestly i think the reason that it’s so hard to get me genuinely riled up over 90% of things is because i have already expended a lot of seething anger on the time

i had to sit in the second check-in meeting for my undergrad honors thesis, after not being invited to the first check-in meeting;

and listen to the members of the honors committee praise the student writing a novel that tackled sex work and the Russian mob, who flat-out said he didn’t ~feel like~ doing any research on either topic;

and then be expected to respond diplomatically to the professor who said, to my face, that because my paper discussed homophobic tropes, my paper was homophobic

#I TRULY DO NOT GET ANGRY OVER A LOT OF THINGS. #BUT EVERY SO OFTEN I WILL REMEMBER THIS MEETING AND I WILL BE ENRAGED FOR THE REST OF THE DAY. #but truly what else did i expect from noted [REDACTED] university english dept. misogynist ***** ***** lmaooooo #ANYWAY joke was on the honors committee bc i was the only goddamn student that met ALL of the deadlines #and thanks to the fiction honors students’ miserable failure there is now a structured honors writing workshop #instead of allowing the honors students to research and write independently #anyway today was One Of Those Days so now you all get to hear this story too #a day in the life

[gayjokes]

in hell rn (sending emails i’ve been putting off since october)

#asked one prof to be on my thesis committee #asking about research funding for spring #asking about my quals in january #etc etc etc #jt