@sqcai But, isn't "making my job easier" the same thing as "taking the job of junior people assisting with / learning how to do my job"? I know, this argument goes back to the steam engine, etc.
I’ve made this video as an intuition pump for the density of #synapses in the #brain. This volume ~ grain of sand, has >3.2 million synapses (orange cubes). Peeling them away leaves only inputs on 2 #neurons. Zooming in, we see the synapses localized to the dendritic spines.
#b3d
I know there's a war, but #Zelensky isn't under fire. He flew to the U.S. aboard a U.S. government private jet, arrived at the White House in a Chauffeur Driven SUV, yet showed up wearing a sweatshirt. It's better than a t-shirt, but I still maintain the proper attire is a suit.
@GreenEngineer42@McAffee I prefer to call that "suck it up" economics. It better captures both the direction of wealth transfer and what we get to do about it
In reality, neurons are packed in so tightly that they make sardines look comfortable. Here are 364 neurons packed into a box roughly the size of a grain of sand. This dense reconstruction is from the Allen Institute's MICrONS layer 2/3 dataset. Rendered in #Blender3d
"Unless things change dramatically, the millions of people #CRISPR could save will never benefit from it. We must, and we can, build a world with #CRISPR for all."
#healthjustice@igisci@nytimes
https://t.co/7VjfFdkLzJ
too many smart people waste time on top-down thinking (what does utopia look like) rather than bottom-up (how to build dope shit in an imperfect world)
In my reporting on clean energy misinformation I've seen one argument over and over.
Wind turbines kill birds.
While this is true, it misses an important piece of context:
Fossil fuel power plants kill 35x more birds per GWh than wind turbines do.
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Scary: 73 teams tested the same hypotheses with the same data. Some found negative results, some positive, some nada. No effect of expertise or confirmation bias. "Idiosyncratic researcher variability is a threat to the reliability of scientific findings." https://t.co/pCRR2wFVWE
Graduate students, postdocs, and other represented workers deserve a living wage at the University of California.
It's not a proud day when the UC cannot provide this request.
My department runs the biggest major at UCR, Biology, and we are nothing without these folks.
.@loraxorg (1993): "The fact that meme viruses exist would be a useful meme to propagate"
(Monkey paw curls)
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