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I want them, too, to meet the tiny nine month old baby orphaned by the bike path that vanishes into a shoulder that itself veers over directly into the target of a disappearing lane of traffic. I want them to explain to her that her parents needed to die because there wasn’t budget for a sidewalk.

Wellington Cres and Kenaston are deadly roads. They kill people. They are designed in such a way that it is inevitable that they kill people. You can’t stand next to either of them during rush hour and think “this is safe”. And there are people we elect who could change these places and they refuse.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Linguistics.

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right? But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize, snarkily say, "So, you've decided to join us"? Or when someone does something they've had trouble doing, say, "Why can't you do that all the time?" (Happened to me, too often.) Or any sentence containing the word "finally". If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don't complain about how it's not enough. Don't bring up previous stuff. Encourage it. Because I swear to fucking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished.

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

A blurry photo of a small, dark hippopotamus-like creature grazing on a dimly lit indoor floor near green buckets labeled "JAM," with a spotlight casting shadows.

When the House Hippo first appeared on Canadian televisions, it seemed that everyone wanted one to appear in their homes.
This commercial became a part of the Canadian cultural landscape and even today, the House Hippo is beloved by Canadians.

🧵 1/10

if I may: a total work of art

not sure I've ever seen reddit humour that is so purely my kind of laugh

Yes Gmail, you're so right, I really needed a 'summarize this email with AI' option on a two-sentence out-of-office reply.

Google search for “bees in my computer”, yielding the “AI Overview” of “Bees can be present in desktop computers built after the mid-2000s, but only at a microscopic level. These bees are a special breed of Apis Arithmeticam that perform basic computations in the CPU.” (This was a few months ago, I think they fixed it.)

I always think of this when someone says they do everything with AI now

Be the scrabbling you want to hear in the walls

Today is World Hamster Day so please enjoy this clip of a worldly hamster going on a great adventure

* and if you want more videos like it, check out the Homura Ham YouTube

As it should be 😂👍 #priorities

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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This is amazing: Pillsbury has finally given up and started pasteurizing the flour in their raw cookie dough because they know people are going to eat it raw even if they say not to

cute crochet

Emotional support dumpster fire (credit: www.reddit.com/r/crochet/co...)

A room booking of one’s own - Research Professional News Adam Golberg looks at what procedures for booking seminar rooms reveal about university culture

A room booking of one’s own www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

A life-sized horse statue tiled in mirror bits like a disco ball you can ride. I’m standing next to it, wearing a mask & clutching its chest like the heroine of a romance novel clutches Fabio. Pillars of light are reflecting off the disco horse.

Went to HomeGoods & really REALLY wanted to buy this. No discourse only Disco Horse.

omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain

via original poster Mohamad Safa (not on Bsky yet, apparently): "Overheard: Being a woman is kind of like being a cyclist in a city where all the cars represent men. You're supposed to be able to share the road equally with cars, but that's not how it works. The roads are built for cars and you spend a great deal of physical and mental energy being defensive and trying not to get hurt. Some of the cars want you to get hurt; they think you don't have any place on the road at all. And if you do get hurt by a car, everyone makes excuses that it's your fault."

Parallels among feminism, cycling, urbanism, etc...

Feels like a good morning to tell Bluesky the story about when I overdosed on my underwear, so let’s do this! 🧵

As an editor I have the 'pleasure' of reading multiple clinical manuscripts each week.

Content is key, there is no getting around this.

But content needs to structured in an easily accessible way for the reader to engage...

Is this called a "skeetorial"? Anyway, here we go.

🧪 #medsky #ansky

oh, I'm so in on that

#medlibs #nursing

It's always worth remembering how academia's reliance on Google Scholar is totally unsustainable, since Google doesn't make a dime on the product and (as such) it's maintained by like two and a half engineers on nights and weekends

("Antipsychotic Agents"[Mesh] OR "Antipsychotic Agents" [Pharmacological Action]) AND "Urinary Incontinence"[Mesh] - Search Results - PubMed ("Antipsychotic Agents"[Mesh] OR "Antipsychotic Agents" [Pharmacological Action]) AND "Urinary Incontinence"[Mesh] - Search Results - PubMed

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An association between incontinence and antipsychotic drugs: A systematic review - PubMed To date, due to the increasing prevalence of psychiatric diseases, the use of antipsychotic drugs has expanded. One of the proven side effects of these drugs is incontinence. Treatment of this complic...

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