@e8chin @joelgombiner I have seen how it is “justified” when the agreement is negotiated with the federal government - and it seems plausible. However, the money coming in is not spent that way in an unambiguously transparent fashion.

@DrKimEBarrett True, but in my own University’s case the low “overhead rates” acceptable on gift funds and monies from a number of other non-federal sources have always seemed potentially problematic when justifying the usual F&A rates.

@DrKimEBarrett @AMIposts @ucdavis @DrKimEBarrett I am well, thank you. Earlier discomfort from a hernia “fixed” (I hope) by surgery in early August, and the pneumonia I contracted at that time - which took me to hospital for a few days - is also now a dimming memory. All in all, I feel I’m ahead.

@DrKimEBarrett @AMIposts @UCDavisHealth @ucdavis Congratulations!

@timgill924 One half of the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) You seem, in your zest for efficiency, to embody both.

@kittycat542 @DaRay38 @Thomashornall I recall my mother noting that in the 1970s. She was originally from Yorkshire, lived in London at that time, and was visiting me in Liverpool. 💕

@stephmurrayyyy I recall when first arriving in the US from the UK whether we celebrated Thanksgiving in England. My smart-aleck comment: “yes, earlier in the year - when they left”. I still find it an odd holiday.

@ClnHz Enjoy both! Congratulations.

@hausfath Insofar as any real scenario for marine CDR would have a distribution of residence times, how might that smear these simple lines?

@anjgoswami 🤣🤣🤣

@hausfath For glum poetry, I prefer W.H. Auden: 😆 The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; For nothing now can ever come to any good.

@e8chin This is why (some) Universities require theses etc. to be printed on acid-free paper, so that they endure. If they’re not (like most commercial books) even 100 years is ambitious without scrupulous storage.

@e8chin It is a nice cheese, though I also enjoy the Midnight Moon. 🤣

@GrammarTable That sounds like you’re begging for the chocolate mousse! 🤣🤣🤣

@Lacito_Rojo @ieo_baleares @goib I hadn’t realized anyone except NIOZ was using this methodology. Does Seal provide the method, or was it “home made”?

@JayTCullen 🤣🤣🤣. But Nature also includes the pictures that need a thousand words.

@marmite_usf @geotraces @USFResearch @USFCMS Congratulations Tim! I look forward to reading it.

@C_Moras12 @SCU_Australia @PalaeoGARG @bach_lennart @tcyronak @biogeochemSCU @SCGeoscience Congratulations! Nice outfit!

@e8chin I agree - despite some years of German in high school, I wouldn’t try to read it except in translation.