„Ich bin Professorin an der Fachhochschule XY und erkläre meinen Studierenden, wie sie ihre Meinung  am besten ungefiltert an die Adressaten bringen, denn das legitimiert in Zeiten der postfaktischen Politik.”

Wikipedia listet die Absolventenliste dieser FH

• 1 Florettfechter
• 1 Moderatorin
• 1 Weinkönigin
• 1 Sachbuchautorin
• 1 Pokerspieler
• 1 Schachspieler
• 1 Journalistin
• 1 Schwimmer

I have occasionally selected a paper of the year, that I enjoyed most for reading. Usually this was not a breakthrough paper but a more hidden pearl. BMJ Christmas and Ig Nobel 2024 were funny, sure, but here is my selection from the literature, a correspondence

Can a biologist fix a radio? — Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis Cancer Cell Volume 2, Issue 3 P179-182 September 2002

A more successful approach will be to remove components one at a time or to use a variation of the method, in which a radio is shot at a close range with metal particles. In the latter case radios that malfunction (have a “phenotype”) are selected to identify the component whose damage causes the phenotype. Although removing some components will have only an attenuating effect, a lucky postdoc will accidentally find a wire whose deficiency will stop the music completely. The jubilant fellow will name the wire Serendipitously Recovered Component (Src) and then find that Src is required because it is the only link between a long extendable object and the rest of the radio. The object will be appropriately named the Most Important Component (Mic) of the radio. A series of studies will definitively establish that Mic should be made of metal and the longer the object is the better, which would provide an evolutionary explanation for the finding that the object is extendable.

"Sei ungehorsam!" "Nein!"
byu/McGrex inasozialesnetzwerk

“Lacking a comprehensive anarchist worldview and philosophy, and in any case wary of nomothetic ways of seeing, I am making a case for a sort of anarchist squint.”  James Scott in “Two Cheers for Anarchism” who writes Pletz when he means Datzetal-Pleetz

NCBI record https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02020174 doesn’t make so much sense to me