Hook for 11am oped

March 5, 2026

Ortiz, A. (2026, March 3). British Columbia moving to permanent daylight saving time, changing clocks for the last time Sunday. The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/world/canada/daylight-savings-bc-time.html


Should we all be “house burping”?

March 5, 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/realestate/what-is-house-burping-luften.html

It may improve your home air quality.

February 18, 2026

The German practice of “lüften” is gaining traction on social media.


If famous artists painted you | twoworlds.co

March 5, 2026

https://twoworlds.co/us/personalized-books-journals/eqi1gklseuokph/if-famous-artists-painted-you


How wolves became dogs

March 4, 2026

https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/how-wolves-became-dogs

your flexible friend economist


The battle to stop clever people betting

March 4, 2026

https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/the-battle-to-stop-clever-people-betting


How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation

March 1, 2026

How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/19/how-whatsapp-took-over-the-global-conversation


Human hippocampal neurogenesis in adulthood, ageing and Alzheimer’s disease

March 1, 2026

Interesting paper on the Aging Brain. Featured in NY Times.

Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10169-4

Disouky, A., Sanborn, M. A., Sabitha, K. R., Mostafa, M. M., Ayala, I. A., Bennett, D. A., Lu, Y., Zhou, Y., Keene, C. D., Weintraub, S., Gefen, T., Mesulam, M., Geula, C., Maienschein-Cline, M., Rehman, J., & Lazarov, O. (2026). Human hippocampal neurogenesis in adulthood, ageing and Alzheimer’s disease. Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10169-4


What is Latent Dirichlet allocation | IBM

March 1, 2026

https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/latent-dirichlet-allocation


LDA resources

February 28, 2026

Ganegedara, T. (2025, February 2). Intuitive Guide to Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Towards Data Science.
https://towardsdatascience.com/light-on-math-machine-learning-intuitive-guide-to-latent-dirichlet-allocation-437c81220158/

some blogs
https://johaupt.github.io/blog/Topic_modeling_with_Gibbs_sampling_in_R.html https://agustinus.kristia.de/blog/lda-gibbs/


RFA – MPI/PI NIH limit

February 28, 2026

the answer… from OSP…

The NIH limitation is by council round, rather than submission date. Council rounds can be found on the NIH standard due dates page: https://grants.nih.gov/grants-process/submit/submission-policies/standard-due-dates

Here is the policy info on the limitation:

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-132.html

Some additional guidance (including a table to show which deadlines fit into which year) can be found on the OSP website: https://research-support.yale.edu/sponsored-projects/office-of-sponsored-projects/proposals

Calendar Year 2026

Advisory Council Dates Application Due Date Notes
January 5/25/25-9/7/25 Not included in the count
May 9/25/25-1/7/26 Included in CY 26 count
August or October 1/25/26-5/7/26 Included in CY 26 count

Calendar Year 2027

Advisory Council Dates Application Due Dates Notes
January 5/25/26-9/7/26 Included in CY 27 count
May 9/25/26-1/7/27 Included in CY 27 count
August or October 1/25/27-5/7/27 Included in CY 27 count

Receipt dates:
9/25/2025-5/7/26 6 max

Receipt dates:
5/25-2026 -5/7/27 6 max