Craig Kaplan

@triggerloop

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. RNA polymerase II mechanism, classic films, #classiccountdown once in awhile

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Craig Kaplan@triggerloop· 24d

Agnes Moorehead as Madge Rapf in Dark Passage looking through ornate small window in door

Craig Kaplan@triggerloop· 27d

Air Quality of 123 in Pittsburgh. Can smell the smoke inside. We got over 200 in 2023 (this is nothing compared to when NYC hit 800 in 2023). But this is looking almost as bad as that over upper Midwest - stay inside if you can

Tall art deco building with washed out backdrop due to wildfire smoke in Pittsburgh

AQI monitoring map showing monitor locations across the upper Midwest, lower Canada, and US Northeast. A large swath of country has hazardous or dangerous air

Craig Kaplan@triggerloop· 28d

Seems like they can be direct about some things? Someone over there wanted to write "Tourist flies into air after bison-involved tossing"

Bison Attacks Tourist at Yellowstone National Park, Tossing Him Into the Air

Craig Kaplan@triggerloop· Jul 12

Me: Time for the Harry Lime speech about Switzerland Group chat: Centuries of peace and prosperity produces 220 goalless minutes.

Craig Kaplan@triggerloop· Jul 11

Divided the MYF ones by number of years in the budget. MIRA much more tightly arranged (ESI, ESI renewal, and people turning one R01 into MIRA). Some of the R01s are tiny.

Violin plots of NIGMS award sizes in FY26. R01s are widely spread due to many being multiyear funded. R35s more narrowly spread.

Craig Kaplan@triggerloop· Jul 11

Oh haha you asked for B/W- here is violin

Violin plots of total cost in US dollars for FY26 awarded R01 grants from NIGMS (left) or R01 grants from NIGMS (right). The plot on right is much more focused around ~400K. The plot on left has two major groups of funding.

Craig Kaplan@triggerloop· Jul 11

Histograms of Total Cost for funded R01 grants from NIGMS in FY26 so far (left) and funded R35 grants (right). I know last year there were a number of 2 year R01s that were MYF, allowing people to be eligible for MIRA. Looks like quite a bit of MYF in the R01s

Craig Kaplan@triggerloop· Jul 8

Update of my NIGMS funding estimates/data. Thanks to @needhibhalla.bsky.social for pointing to some FY2025 numbers showing funding rates. Funded grant # are from Reporter. FY2026 is in progress. A few points 1/

Craig Kaplan@triggerloop· Jul 7

I wanted to throw up listening to that. If applications being up are the main driver, simple math should support that idea. Anyhow, I highly doubt that is the case. Here are the numbers

Decreasing funding rates at NIGMS for both R35 and R01

Craig Kaplan@triggerloop· Jul 3

Wikipedia ain’t playin

The infantry charge was preceded by what Lee hoped would be a powerful and well-concentrated cannonade of the Union center, destroying the Union artillery batteries that could defeat the assault and demoralizing the Union infantry. But a combination of inept artillery leadership and defective equipment doomed the barrage from the beginning. Longstreet's corps artillery chief, Col. Edward Porter Alexander, had effective command of the field; Lee's artillery chief, Brig. Gen. William N. Pendleton, played little role other than to obstruct the effective placement of artillery from the other two corps. Despite Alexander's efforts, then, there was insufficient concentration of Confederate fire on the objective.[17]

Craig Kaplan@triggerloop· Jul 3

Ugh

Craig Kaplan@triggerloop· Jul 3

We have the juice

Craig Kaplan@triggerloop· Jun 28

Two different smoke plumes from these fires on two different days in two places, over a hundred miles away in different directions. Last pic is ash accumulated on edge of car window