Christopher H. Hendon

Just finished stranger things. Decided it was a show that deserved 1.5X speed. Much much better when every episode is 50% shorter. Also, really disappointed in this (hopefully final, ever) season. Very bad writing in parts.

Verizon outages across Cambridge and Boston is a problem. @Verizon obviously having a shit day but come on….. this is a joke.

In typeface news…. Might this be one of the few things I agree with Rubio on? Just about every font, but Times in particular, is better than Calibri. nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/…

@corodostudio Click the link

@chhendon Where can I buy It ?

Water for Coffee is now for sale. This book took me 10 years to fix. It’s a different beast. maxwelldashwood.com/products/water…

@TheCousinSal strongly looking forward to hearing you and Bill break down DJTs commentary. Clearly zero knowledge of football. Outstanding.

The comms team at JACS getting loose. I love they retweeted this lol.

@BourbEnthusiasm I can’t find ANY information about the 2025 releases of Brook Hill, but scored this at MSRP in Oregon. What do you know about it? It’s the youngest I’ve seen from them. It’s called Cool Cat.

We are in a dark time. Not because of the king imagery, really, but because the White House and our president are posting stuff like this at all. What a joke. It’s an embarrassment but I think those in power are too deep to see how absurd this is.

Caught some chubs

Excellent news. I’m going fishing to celebrate.

@MicrobiomDigest @ScienceAdvances Both go up… looks fine! 🪦

Editorial Expression of Concern for @ScienceAdvances paper by Thomas Südhof - it had some image problems, but others tried to re-create a figure from the raw data provided by Dr. Südhof. The graph looked quite different 😱 pubpeer.com/publications/C… science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Also coincidentally is my birthday!

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Had a baby this year so travel got cut way back. This means I won’t make @united 1K this year. But I just wanted to say how awesome 1K has been for the past 3 years. When travel picks up again - when the little guy gets a bit older - I’m looking forward to getting back to it.

@CoryMSimon Not yet. Staying low for now.

@chhendon you have a website for your coffee start-up yet? I wanna see! ☺️

it does seem a little shady to me, that prof's and uni's obtain patents based on research funded with public $.

@CoryMSimon Ive got a startup! Not surprising but it’s in the coffee domain. Hard tech. We are in the seed round, now. The business-building side of super interesting. A totally different skill set.

can see how---esp. if developing a certain kind of technology is boring, tedious, or uninteresting---patent $ or the possibility for a start-up could incentivize a scientist to take on a project they wouldn't otherwise. still suspect maybe the bad (tax on technology; restricted or prohibited adoption; dubious ethics) outweighs the good (incentives, local attraction of private funding) when it comes to patenting as a publicly-funded scientist... I don't have any patents / haven't tried. not really interested in a start-up. just want to work on interesting problems and publish papers, so far! you?

@CoryMSimon I felt this way for ages. But then the new administration gutted the ideology and it turns out that having a successful startup is good for your group. We split royalties in a 33% goes to UO, 33% to the inventor personally, and 33% to the lab as overhead free funds….

@CoryMSimon But then what incentive is there to develop technology? For probably 99% of science, it needn’t be patented. But for certain findings it’s really important. Have you patented anything yet? You might feel differently if you get a highly valuable idea and fancy doing a start up.

by definition, patents are not in the public domain. I mean the technology should be available for anyone to use without paying for a license. right, I think profs, uni admins, and lawyers should not have a revenue stream ("benefit") for making technology exclusive that was funded by the public. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_do…

@CoryMSimon But they are…. That’s the point of the patent. It’s just that they are held by the assignee for 20 years to allow them to benefit from their effort. But by definition a patent is a public disclosure and by their construction should contain sufficient detail to put in practice.

my claim is that technology developed by government-funded research should belong to the public domain for all to freely benefit from. 60% of patent licenses given out by uni's are non-exclusive, so just a stifling tax on using the technology, not to mention admin costs. x.com/CoryMSimon/sta…