@EvilPlantLady@rayray7823@clairebubblepop It sounds like you had a lot less than many (or most) but still more than some. I'm sorry that you've had such a rough go, that sounds really tough. Sending you positive vibes as much as this terrible platform (meaning X) will allow.
@EvilPlantLady@rayray7823@clairebubblepop That's fair, but if you have been able to have $200 at once, that represents a degree of priviledge. It's not any sort of comment on you / your choices/etc. Plus priviledge, like poverty, isn't a binary. Some have more privledge than others and some have less. {1/2]
@EvilPlantLady@clairebubblepop And that's great, but it's important to recognize that there are people who are not able to do that through no fault of their own.
@EvilPlantLady@rayray7823@clairebubblepop Being able to save up a couple hundred dollars to buy an unlocked phone is in and of itself a privilege. It's expensive to be poor
@EvilPlantLady@clairebubblepop That means you have to be able to spare $200. A higher end phone that cost $25 a month, you only have to scrape together an extra $25. Oftentimes the upfront cost of less expensive options ends up being what's cost prohibitive.
conditional formatting but with text changed to white/black. I figured this way if we want to change the colors at some point, like (as a totally random off-the-top-of-my-head example) make the technician purple, it's easy!
I made one for @JacqueColeLab!
I did it in Google Sheets using conditional formatting (each bar beside someone's name actually has text in it, 1-5, and then conditional formatting fills the cell and makes the text match the fill color. @jointbme
@duckofprey I'm putting my money on three weeks. He's clever enough to figure out a way to manipulate people to vote for someone else without anyone realizing they're being manipulated.
Which basically is the highest compliment that I can give to anyone
Last weekend we held our annual National Biomechanics Day event (@BiomechanicsDay, #NBD2024) in conjunction with MSEN Day. We combined expo-style events with some lab tours to show the students how cool our research is and how much we love biomechanics.
Many thanks to those who helped out, including people from the Translational Orthopaedic Research Lab (@mattbfish), the Advanced Wound Healing Lab (@BrownLab_NCSU), the Hand Rehabilitation Lab, and the Neuromuscular Control and Robotics Lab.
We had a great time last week visiting Ms. Byrd's 7th grade class at Wake Young Men's Leadership Academy (@WakeBoysLead) for SciMatch, part of the NC Science Festival (@ncscifest).
We talked about how our group is working to improve treatment options for knee injuries [1/6]
We started by telling them about ourselves in 7th grade
Not pictured: me at 12, the epitome of cool. In one picture I have a science Olympiad shirt on and in the other I'm surrounded by X-Files paraphernalia I got for my 12th birthday. So cool! 😎 [2/6]
Margaret and I talked about how MRI works (using photosensitive sun paper to convey that different types of tissue show up differently in an MRI) and how we use software to assemble the 2D images into a 3D model (stacking puzzles).
Kelvin even made his own sun paper art! [5/6]