In NVivo training I always emphasise that with any issues encountered "It's not you, it's NVivo".

Today an NVivo bug that is a perfect example of this - and I thought was long gone - came up at a training event today.

This bug causes NVivo to crash because... NVivo doesn't like your printer...

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There is some enthusiasm locally for using large language models (LLMs) to create more diverse patient and public involvement in clinical research - given PPI is hard to do. We at @psychosisresearch.bsky.social have some concerns we have summarised here.

New paper in HRMJ: Unions help make remote work more fair - based on research in the US, Canada, and Germany: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Prepping the baby go bag like the millennial parent I am:

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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Do ghosts have a duty of scare?

Meta deletes trans and nonbinary Messenger themes

Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.

🔗 www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

Bionic Eye Patients Are Going Blind Again After Manufacturer Decides They're Obsolete Recipients of bionic eyes from Second Sight are starting to go blind after the company behind the technology stopped supporting their products.

Ok. I am going to rant about something. Embedded/IoT/CE devices and how just about everyone gets them wrong now a days and the scary dystopian clusterfuck that is on the horizon.

I want to talk about this article again, about the bionic eye implants...

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Writing Aid GPT: Academic writing aid that supports writers in revising their text rather than rewriting it for them.

Exploring Home GPT: Qualitative interviewer exploring participants’ experiences of ‘home’.

Kapital Question GPT: Ask anything about Marx’s ’Capital: Volume 1’description

UK Bull Dung Checker GPT: Fact-checking claims you’ve seen in the news and social media.

A couple of weeks ago, I ran a session on GenAI and ethics for PhD students. This included 14 custom GPTs I created demonstrating different use-cases and considerations.

The slides and pages covering each of the GPTs can be found here: abers.github.io/genai-guidan...

Should we have a "Magneto makes a valid point" sticker?

I don't know how I feel about AuDHD. OddHDHD seems better in my head even though it sounds the same.

The more time goes on, I feel neurodivergent is a better fit. It's all a spectrum -- we're never 100% a single thing. Neurodivergence is the spectrum we share.

Let the cat into the room, they said. It'll be fine, they said.

Three hours of sleep, I said.