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Sociobiology
Personal blog · sociobiology.wordpress.comsciencecareer
Sociobiology is a personal blog at sociobiology.wordpress.com about science and career. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Retraction with Honor”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one HN comment, which corrects a claim about NSF funding law in a thread on a higher category theory grant labelled DEI. It does not discuss the blog's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
So you want to be a biology professor
Most-linked posts?
- Retraction with Honor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-18
What Hacker News says?
> The previous administration used executive power to direct various government organizations to factor DEI into all government funding, Not the NSF. Provisions in NSF's organic statute to create programs that "expand STEM opportunities" were introduced by the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act, and were retained through the CHIPS Act. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1862s-5 > If there is a point…
Comment linking /2013/03/07/exactly-how-an-nsf-panel-functions/
on “"Homotopical macrocosms for higher category theory" identified as woke DEI grant”Submitted Retraction with Honor as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Retraction with Honor as a story · 3 points
HN discussion