@psbasran.bsky.social
Associate Professor @Cornell, White Coats with Black Flags. Radiation, Cancer, Imaging, AI. Noisic. Views my own. 🇨🇦 in Ithaca
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
08.11.2025 22:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
With a little help from some friends…
#medphys
Hearing Cocteau Twins more frequently in coffee shop 20 yrs post release is somewhat validating, and sad that a generation of music listeners just let this band slide past. Maybe GenX has more in common than GenZ than I thought.
12.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Same here… but if it involves a Blondie track or two, I’d be game
23.09.2025 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Is it me or did a bunch of NIH grants just vanish over the last month? I thought i should take pulse after a deadline, make a plan for the next few months, and start hunkering down… but when i tried looking up the call… vanished.
How is anyone supposed to prepare for these things?
#academicsky
One thing you can say about this band is that they beat to their own drum…
👍🏽✊🏽
pitchfork.com/news/godspee...
Tubas never sounded so good.
youtu.be/PMsQh1KkKsY?...
Just ordered some new coffee mugs for the lab.
Science is an interconnected system- humans, animals, and environments working in tandem.
"Science means everyone and everything” means science should be deliberately collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and benefit not only people, but everything else.
#NowPlaying
The music of the lords.
Too much nerd on?
29.07.2025 00:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0.. it appears should is the default
28.07.2025 21:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Prepping for Canadian night out
#AAPM2025
At this point it was clear I was the joke of the day… we all started laughing, and the roasts went on until all had their say.
I am so honoured and fortunate to work with such a great team of students, technicians, and staff.
QOTD legend!
eof.
Then another student chimes in “Oh what i hate is when people put on a loose shirt, unbuttoned over a t-shirt… looks so sloppy…”
You could guess what I was wearing.
5/n
(about an hour earlier, i was caught in a torrential rain storm and my clothes and shoes were soaked.. so i took off my shoes and put on my Bata slippers… with my socks on… to dry off)
She pauses and then says “Of course not you Dr Basran… you know, like Birkies and socks”
4/n
She asks and answers first
“I really dislike regular blue jeans.. its summer! Either dark or light is fine, but i am sick of plain blue jeans”.
Interesting response me thinks… then a summer student volunteers…
“Oh this is easy! Socks and sandles! I mean who does that?”
3/n
They’re silly ice breakers to make the meetings a tad less prescriptive. I often provide the questions but this time my lab manager pipes up and says “I have a QOTD!” … it not out the ordinary for others to suggest them so, i roll with it.
Her question: “What fashion trend do you despise?”
2/n
It was the last in person summer lab meeting and the team served me up a royal roast.
I start our meeting with a QOTD= question of the day. These are simple as “Whats your favourite movie” to weird inane ones like “What’s the worst thing to unexpectedly find growing in your belly button?”
…
1/n
Carnage
21.07.2025 18:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sounds like a Tarrific Idea!
18.07.2025 20:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you for your attention to this backscatter
18.07.2025 20:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0just watch … bro be getting the national medal of science soon
18.07.2025 14:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
After +20 years of Institutional Clinical Medical Physics … at an age when i found grey hair on places that don’t grow hair, switching to the madness and uncertainty of a tenure track position …
18.07.2025 14:12 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sadly, we are on the verge of a new divide- healthcare, digital, and now an AI healthcare divide.
17.07.2025 13:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you for your attention to this muttar
16.07.2025 23:49 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fido is complete! We have a zoomorphic phantom from the tip of the nose to the end of the lungs for high precision, radiotherapy measurements and calculations!
Stay tuned!
#medphys
Oh! Here is a thought! How about shifting the conversation from latest hype cycle AI buzzwords (E.g. Agentic AI) and instead to demanding that health information systems live up to the promises made 20 years ago?
I can’t prove this but I would guess better workflows >> 3rd party AI agents
Last slice of FIDO being printed! Watch for some mindlessness, and message me if it goes horribly wrong
www.youtube.com/live/0EtGLla...
