chiasm

scientist, academic, science fiction reader
Anime watcher
Learning Japanese (::fingers crossed::)

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2024-09-05 23:08:56

A friend of mine just got two adorable kittens and named them mochi and katsu.
I said, Ice cream and Victory? She said she was thinking cutlet, but it is the same sound.
😆 This language, I swear...

2024-09-02 18:53:34

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@npub1r47…wytr That was my response too! there's an *organization* for that? I thought it was just a self-motivational goal...

2024-08-08 16:24:39

I only found out today this woman exists, but she may have hit the trifecta for living the 7-year old's dream... She gets to bounce on a trampoline for a living, wrote her undergrad thesis on dinosaurs, and is looking to join Cirque du Soleil.
If I ever get reincarnated, I want to come back as her. 😂
#olympic2024
https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/bryony-page_1904745

2024-07-26 12:51:28

20 books that have influenced me, one book a day for 20 days? oog, that'd probably be embarrassing... But it is a prompt for self-reflection.
#20books20days
#20books
#bookstodon
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2024-07-18 15:59:50

I was talking to a neuroscience grad student who wants to write a book on the use of psychedelics in treating Evangelical Trauma.
We had to do some verbal handshaking to make sure we both knew what she was talking about--I hadn't heard that phrase in quite a while and had forgotten it was a thing, but she moves in circles where it's definitely recognized.
My world is a better place for having heard that. 🤣 😍 I hope she can do it!
#psychedelic

2024-07-11 20:38:04

Hey all, I'm trying to find a speaker for a conference session next spring, someone (female, established, mid career?) who does some work in/knows something about AI in biomedical research and comes from an interdisciplinary background.
They do not have to be a psychiatrist, though they'd be speaking to women who are biomedical researchers in psychiatry with an eye toward leadership challenges, career building, etc.
Any suggestions welcome!
#science #LLM #AI #Diversity #psych

2024-07-05 16:17:43

I'm turning into quite the Grinch on 4th of July. We are now homeowners in an area where anyone can and does set off fireworks.
I love seeing fireworks, but knowing how many house fires are started each year on the 4th of July by idiots with fireworks, it does dampen my enthusiasm significantly for the local amateur evening.

2024-07-02 18:53:25

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@npub1rlr…wa9c Are you looking for recommendations? I have several but I wasn't sure if you wanted any. 😁

2024-06-27 23:40:44

Another one from the Cameron Art Museum in North Carolina --from the Dreamer series, and it's all mathematical expressions and equations, some from re-used math texts. I didn't see it until I got close. Just loved it. My favorite piece! It's by Rosalia Torres-Weiner. #art
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2024-06-22 12:20:27

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@npub18kj…4q30 oh no. He will be missed so much. 😭 💔

2024-06-06 13:22:44

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@npub1typ…c8hh Wow. Where do you begin with de-programming THAT?

2024-06-06 12:32:08

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@npub18kj…4q30 Kare ga genkida ga ureshīdesu

2024-06-06 12:21:55

This business of using your phone as a pedometer doesn't seem to be very accurate. The number of times I have to put my phone down because I don't have it attached to my body in some way and therefore I miss all sorts of steps--huge under count.
(On the scale of world problems, insignificant, I know.)

2024-06-02 19:56:27

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@npub1qjr…kgt0 Yeah, there's actually a lot of dissections etc. on Youtube. Thanks for the reminder, actually--there's some good stuff there.

2024-06-02 19:15:41

Right: A kid from a local high school got in touch with me over LinkedIn--they are starting a neuroscience club, and wanted to talk about neuroimaging, and any other advice for the club.
Anyone out there know anything about running a neuroscience club in high school, want to weigh in with advice? Now's the time!
I can tell them about neuroimaging research and academic life etc. but other than that I'm a blank.
#science #neuroscience #academia

2024-05-21 23:17:00

Yeah. I have a meeting next week with a student I haven't met in person, and I was looking at their first name and wondering is that a male or female name because it could be either. I happen to have known both men and women with that first name. And then I realized: it really doesn't matter! Who cares?? All it would affect is my preconceptions, and who the hell needs that?
Baby steps, eh? D'oh.
#academia

2024-05-21 13:52:20

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@npub18kj…4q30 とてもかわいい !!
良くなって嬉しいです

2024-05-21 13:44:12

Whee!! One new grad student started with me last week; one MD/PhD student started a rotation with me yesterday, and my research scientist should be meeting with me tomorrow, and then starting in another week and some.
Plus the high schoolers want to stick around and continue learning, and some undergrads are chatting with me next week about research opportunities.
From zero to full in no time flat! Two years of just me here, and then here we are-- This WILL be interesting. 😁
#academia

2024-05-19 23:47:32

Man, reviewing NIH grants is worse than reviewing dissertations. The dissertations are long and sometimes poorly written, but NIH grants are short and written by scientists who do this for a living and are fighting for their ideas. It takes at least an hour or two to thoroughly review one of those 12 page beasties, which tells you something about the level of depth we have to get into and with what paucity of words. 😁
8-10 of them at a go, and my weekend is shot. 😫
#academia #science

2024-05-17 01:08:19

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@npub18kj…4q30 oh no!! I hope he can get better soon! That sounds terrible. 😔

2024-05-13 13:43:47

So I got notification that my info was caught in a data breach, with a free year of Experianworks credit monitoring as recompense--just in time for the last free year of Experianworks monitoring from the *last* breach to expire.
Yeesh. 🙄

2024-05-07 23:24:27

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@npub1sua…szrk aguas? Really? Wow I had no idea...

2024-05-07 23:19:58

I learned a character in #japanese the other day that was defined as amount; or picture frame. 🤬
I was swearing at that--how can one word have meanings that dissimilar? How can I remember that?
But then today walking in the city I passed the Latitude nightclub. I'd seen that in other cities-- it is a good name for a nightclub, in the sense of permission to bend the rules a bit.
Or a line in the map marking distance from the equator.
🤬 How did one word get such dissimilar meanings??
😂

2024-03-01 21:49:15

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@npub1y7x…jrl4 I see that theme a lot in anime shows. The number of villains who want peace on earth--but it means they want everyone dead, is surprising to me.

2024-01-22 16:05:42

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@npub1typ…c8hh oh definitely read the last one. It makes the others pale in comparison. It is wild. 😁😁

2024-01-21 00:43:12

Finished Death's End, the third book in the Three Body Problem trilogy.
Wow that's dark. In so, so,so many meanings of the word.
Hats off to the author--I can see why he's the top sci fi author in China. Man's a freaking genius. But for someone raised on the Galactic Empire, these books are *dark*.
#sciencefiction

2024-01-11 00:47:29

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@npub1uwt…p8lz I am reminded of Gandhi's statement about how I like your Christ, but his followers are despicable. Or words to that effect! I'll bet those governors are in church every Sunday, too. The Oklahoma one definitely is. Horrible lack of compassion.