Shawn (ᜐᜒᜌᜓᜈ᜔) 🇵🇭

🇵🇭 | AB+ | he/him | chronic daydreamer. overlord of microscopic worlds. isko ng bayan para sa bayan.

[Shawn (ᜐᜒᜌᜓᜈ᜔) 🇵🇭 @kinwash]

Aaawww! Thanks, RM. 💙💜

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

Feeling overwhelmed? @BTS_twt has a message to brighten up your day.

#BTSLoveMyself #OnMyMind 💙💜

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.

A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.

Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.

The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.

The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.

Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.

The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.

The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.

[Shawn (ᜐᜒᜌᜓᜈ᜔) 🇵🇭 @kinwash]

WTF?!

[PRC Board @prcboard]

PRC announced that no one passed in the May 2026 Medical Technologist Special Professional Licensure Exam
➔ Full Results: https://t.co/pIvAb7Tq6K
~Source: PRC Official

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

MTV officially shut down its 24-hour music channels on 31st Dec, 2025. They ended their final broadcast with 'Video killed the radio star' by The Buggles, the very first video broadcasted by MTV on August 1st, 1981.

[Maricel Halili @halili_maricel]

Timor-Leste is now the 11th member of the ASEAN. Timor-Leste’s flag has been added to the flags of other ASEAN member countries following the signing of the declaration of their admission into ASEAN @News5PH

[Shawn (ᜐᜒᜌᜓᜈ᜔) 🇵🇭 @kinwash]

@PhD_Genie Has it every really gone away?

[Shawn (ᜐᜒᜌᜓᜈ᜔) 🇵🇭 @kinwash]

"Life is unpredictable, and things can change in the blink of an eye. Whether it's your energy, your health, or even something as simple as hair, appreciate it, celebrate it, relish in it. Because one day, you might look back and realize those were the golden moments."

So true!

[Bojing Jia @BojingJia]

In 2017, I moved to San Diego to start an MD-PhD, an 8-year program. "8-years!" people would gasp, "Is that program even legal?"

To show the passage of time, I got a house plant, thinking I’d take a photo at the start and finish, hoping the succulents would thrive as living bookmarks of my academic training. Dear reader: they died, in no less than 3 months.

As backup, I grew out my hair. And grow it did, turning into a public ledger of my time in school – T4 by year 3, T10 by year 4. I unintentionally earned street cred with surfers and a couple of awkward catcalls.

My hair quickly became unwieldly, I had to get it trimmed twice. It got snagged whenever my wife rolled over on the pillow. Wrestling with shampoo and brushes, I sometimes daydreamed of a buzzcut. But I latched on to one key trait I’m proud of: my relentless stubbornness.

I convinced myself that chopping it off would be like quitting the MD-PhD midway, halfway through a marathon. So, my hair and I, in a love-hate relationship, begrudgingly trudged through medical school, the pandemic, and now finally my PhD.

Originally, I planned to donate my hair. What I didn’t anticipate was that I’d up donating my hair... to me. I started taking medication which causes my hair to fall off, just a month before my PhD defense. While this isn’t quite the end of my MD-PhD, I figured this is as good a time as any.

Reflecting on photos of my wild, free-flowing hair, I’m filled with a sense of fondness and gratitude. It was a wild, untamed badge of my youth, a testament to a time when things were different. I’m incredibly thankful I didn’t take those moments, or my hair, for granted.

Life is unpredictable, and things can change in the blink of an eye. Whether it's your energy, your health, or even something as simple as hair, appreciate it, celebrate it, relish in it. Because one day, you might look back and realize those were the golden moments.

To anyone reading this, I encourage you to embrace and appreciate the chapters of your life, especially the ones you're living right now. Celebrate your youth, your health, your quirks. Don't wait for a sign or a change to start valuing the beauty of your present. Because, trust me, it's worth every moment of gratitude.

#medicine #md #PhD #beforeafter #Growth #Health

[Coldplay @coldplay]

Thank you Manila

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

He should've won an Oscar for this

[Shawn (ᜐᜒᜌᜓᜈ᜔) 🇵🇭 @kinwash]

This is so much more scandalous than a koreanovela or a mexican teledrama! 😨

[Florin Hilbay @fthilbay]

Ever since the 1987 Constitution took effect, ALL attempts to revise it have been motivated by the need to extend the President’s term or the desire to sell our resources and privileges to foreigners, or both. They have never been about the welfare of Filipinos or of the nation.

[Shawn (ᜐᜒᜌᜓᜈ᜔) 🇵🇭 @kinwash]

@PetrovichBilly 😂😂😂 I find it funny that I agree with them despite my response. Mine was just to remind you that if you wanted your plants to have some peace it has to be away from you at times in the day, hence the wall. The walkway for its obvious purpose.

Congrats on the highpoint! 👏

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

In 2005, a nursing home in the US got a six-month-old kitten named Oscar as a therapy cat. The staff soon noticed something unusual about him.

Oscar often liked to be by himself, but sometimes he would go and lie next to one of the residents. Strangely, the resident he chose would often pass away within a few hours.

At first, the workers didn't think it was important, but after it happened 20 times, they started to think Oscar knew when someone was going to die. So, they began to call the resident's family if they saw Oscar with them.

Some people think Oscar could sense certain smells from dying cells, and that's why he went to comfort residents who were alone.

There was even a time when the staff thought one resident was going to die, but Oscar stayed with a different, healthier-looking person, who then died first.

Oscar lived until 2022 and was right about more than 100 deaths during his life.

[Shawn (ᜐᜒᜌᜓᜈ᜔) 🇵🇭 @kinwash]

👏👏👏

[Kerb ❤️‍🔥 @Curve251]

May mga pa-VIP talaga na gumagamit ng bus lane no. Dasurb nyo maipit dyan 😂

[Mycobiomics @mycobiomics]

The paper announcing a global consortium on a unified approach towards the classification of fungi and fungus-like organisms was just published in Mycosphere. https://t.co/x9PQaZgGe0 Several members of our consortium are also among the co-authors, e.g. @MS_fungi, @FungusCrous

[Shawn (ᜐᜒᜌᜓᜈ᜔) 🇵🇭 @kinwash]

@eldrinarguelles @SystAssn Congratulations, Eldrin! 🏆🏅

[Shawn (ᜐᜒᜌᜓᜈ᜔) 🇵🇭 @kinwash]

Free electrophoresis gel analyzer!

Because sharing is caring! Thank me later!

[Bento Lab 🧬 @theBentoLab]

For anyone looking for freeware electrophoresis gel analysis software, check out GelAnalyzer 23.1 by Dr. Istvan Lazar Jr. and Dr. Istvan Lazar Sr.

As you can guess from the version number this software has been around for a while (since 2010) and has been quite popular over this time (over 1K citations in Google Scholar).

Its core features include:

⭐Analysis of gel images from many image sources
⭐Rotation and cropping of images
⭐Auto-detection of lanes
⭐Auto-detection amplicon peaks
⭐Full manual control of adding/modifying lanes and bands
⭐Background and distortion correction
⭐Quantitative and qualitative calibration and evaluation

It’s free, works on Windows/Mac/Linux, relatively easy to use, and has a good walkthrough guide on the website.

To get it to work, load up a good quality gel image, correct for any gel distortions by entering "retardation factor" spline lines, enter molecular weight and concentration data from your DNA ladder, fit curves to calibrate, and then you can automatically estimate the molecular weight and concentration of your amplicons.

However, although it can correct distorted gels to some extent, getting good gels in the first place will result in much better results! And results are estimates based on the gel, so this needs to be taken into account.

Here's the citation and link:

GelAnalyzer 23.1 (available at https://t.co/t197r50dpr) by Istvan Lazar Jr., PhD and Istvan Lazar Sr., PhD, CSc

If you already use GelAnalyzer it would be great to hear what you think of it. And if you prefer other software for gel image analysis we'd love to know what you use!

Image below showing the sizing amplicons in a test gel.

[Shawn (ᜐᜒᜌᜓᜈ᜔) 🇵🇭 @kinwash]

Bonifacio Day became National Mourning Day for many #KathNiel fans. What a tragedy!

[The Philippine Star @PhilippineStar]

"This is the end of a love story we genuinely thought was going to last forever, between two people who were much more than the movies they made." #KathNiel | via @philstarlife

https://t.co/f8vu16VuC9