Bryan D Fantie 🇨🇦🇺🇸

Neuropsychologist/Neuroscientist Interests: brain, mind, emotion, cognition, consciousness, experimental philosophy, closed head injury (CHI) & concussion, TBI

[LSE Impact Blog @LSEImpactBlog]

✍️"the dearth of tenure-track lines relative to the population of recent PhDs means that the ECR labour market is very much a buyer’s market."

#PhDchat #ECRchat https://t.co/a3bgkVBqR3

[PHD Comics @PHDcomics]

"Done"

[Bryan D Fantie 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @BFantie]

Staff Editorial: AU’s budgetary plans prioritize future generations of students https://t.co/ZosHV39Zc9

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

this conversation will be on replay for many academics this Thanksgiving.

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

From Hannah Arendt

[The Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle]

Opinion: Sometimes teaching evaluations are useful. But sometimes they're worse than worthless. They can be damaging. https://t.co/ri5NctAioY

[Richard E Cytowic, MD @Cytowic]

The time has come... "Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age" will be available everywhere tomorrow! Thank you all for the support on this project, and I can't wait for this book to be yours.

[Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone]

This week in @JohnsHopkins Introduction to Psychology: Can your expectations change what you perceive? Check out this amazing demonstration by a TikToker named Donavxn (https://t.co/7M1oZ4UhMd)

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

I agree with those who say this video should go viral *every single day* until Americans go to the polls in November

[📖 Some Random Chick 😷💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 @KCooperHinton]

6/6
...to suggest that someone else put a simple piece of filtering material in front of THEIR face to keep them from giving it to other people and ruining or ending lives in a blithe, expanding slash of malaise through the general population?

Are you fucking KIDDING ME?

[📖 Some Random Chick 😷💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 @KCooperHinton]

5/6
...use a simple piece of filtering material in front of my face to prevent myself from becoming ill with this thing, to keep myself from risking others' lives willy-nilly all unbeknownst to myself?

It is even (checks notes) "tyranny" and "bullying"...

[📖 Some Random Chick 😷💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 @KCooperHinton]

4/6
...increases risk of multiple major health issues, & mutates rapidly - all of which we KNOW, all of which ISN'T EVEN IN DISPUTE - but it's "paranoid", "unhealthy" & even losing me friends to keep insisting it's a bad idea to CATCH IT?

It's "weird" & "mentally unstable" to...

[📖 Some Random Chick 😷💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 @KCooperHinton]

3/6
...6-8 YEARS after the infection.

But sure, playing fast and loose with this NEW one, about which we have had comparably no time to learn and yet HAVE learned that it is VICIOUS, should be FINE, right?
It ALREADY causes extreme long-term illness and disability, wildly...

[📖 Some Random Chick 😷💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 @KCooperHinton]

2/6
...long-term damage to the heart that occurs up to five WEEKS after the initial infection and recovery.
- Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is caused by the measles virus. The first symptoms are usually poor school performance, forgetfulness, and temper outbursts...

[📖 Some Random Chick 😷💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 @KCooperHinton]

1/6
What we KNOW:
- The time between infection with HIV and becoming ill with AIDS can be 10–15 YEARS.
- Post-polio syndrome (PPS) usually occurs 15-40 YEARS after the infection and recovery.
- Streptococcus infection can cause...

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

The ultimate purpose of education is to change an empty mind into an open one.

If you wanna be a good teacher, teach open-mindedness, teach enthusiasm, inquisitiveness, heuristics, and values.

[Bryan D Fantie 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @BFantie]

@victorckumar Yep

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

@elonmusk Today I learned cancer, AIDS, rabies, and Ebola are not dangerous because you have to be tested to know you have them.

[Bryan D Fantie 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @BFantie]

Engagement Announcement: Samara Rose Fantie and Carl Elliott “Ott” Lindstrom https://t.co/KUfhShnwiK

[Bob Wachter @Bob_Wachter]

Until this week, I remained a NoVid, which I chalked up to being fairly cautious, fully vaxxed & a bit lucky.
This week my luck ran out. My case is a cautionary tale, particularly for the “just a cold” folks. Mine definitely was not...I literally have scars to show for it. (1/22)