ttpphd

ttpphd, 1 hour ago to random

Ugh waking up randomly at 3 AM. I really am middle aged. 🥲

ttpphd, 13 hours ago to random

I get it. People are skeptical about claims that x, y, or z is a risk factor for autism spectrum disorder because of the debunked and retracted studies trying to force a connection to vaccines.

However...

The connection between circumcision and autism is already more robust than the supposed connection with vaccines. The circumcision studies do not have the "bad science" smell.

The researchers took great pains to create validation models and examined hypotheses on potential confounders.

nora, 14 hours ago to random

i wonder what the maximum size is for an earring to have someone actually wear it

ttpphd, 16 hours ago to Autism

Why Not Circumcise Your Boy? A Potential Link to Autism
Even if culturally common in USA, parents should think twice.
By Darcia Navarez, PhD

"studies to date have not adequately evaluated the disparate male to female autism predominance because of inadequate study design -- failure to control for confounding of outcomes with circumcision (which should be part of any future well-controlled neuroimaging/epidemiologic/epigenetic studies of ASD / comorbidities)."

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/moral-landscapes/201702/why-not-circumcise-your-boy-potential-link-autism

#autism

Wuzzy, 16 hours ago to science

As long society accepts genital "surgeries" on #intersex babies so they conform to some bullshit norms, we cannot call ourselves enlightened.

https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/07/25/i-want-be-nature-made-me/medically-unnecessary-surgeries-intersex-children-us

"Two common goals of these cosmetic 'normalizing' surgeries on children’s genitals are to enable #heterosexual penetrative intercourse, and to help the child #conform to #gender and sexual norms"

It's based on #ideology, not #science.
It MUST be condemned like #FGM <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation>.

#surgery #LGBT #BodilyAutonomy

ttpphd, 19 hours ago to random

It's always ok to laugh at a billionaire because billionaires shouldn't exist.

ttpphd, 19 hours ago to random

The decade of the scam.

ttpphd, 22 hours ago to random

Good morning!

Anything is possible.

Even for you.

ttpphd, 1 day ago to random

It is so weird to look at tall 25 year olds and tell myself "that's basically a baby".

ttpphd, 1 day ago to random

Did you know the current president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (a trade group who represents the interests of physicians) lives in Portland and works at OHSU? Isn't that something!

ttpphd, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago) to science

Research I contributed to is being presented today at the Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Ottawa.

"A Spatial Digit Task for assessing binaural function in individuals with hearing loss"

Brungart, Davidson, Clark, and Perry, 2024.

"the SDT proves valuable for identifying individuals struggling using ITD cues to segregate and localize simultaneously-presented speech signals."

#Auditory #Hearing #Acoustics #Audiology #science

ttpphd, 1 day ago to random

I need a hug.

ttpphd, 2 days ago to random

This is not me but i hope to meet them one day.

https://www.artsatl.org/20-by-2020-for-atlanta-based-actor-trevor-perry-its-a-nonbinary-world/

#EnbyJoy

ttpphd, 2 days ago to psychology

Found on Reddit:

"I am conducting a study to investigate whether adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) & domestic voilence/ intimate partner voilence makes men feel like they don't matter. With suicide being the biggest killer in men under 40, could this be a contributing factor? https://forms.gle/quJ9eBKJ1eAuU3Dz7 "

https://www.reddit.com/r/study/comments/1cr9i95/do_men_not_matter/

#ACE #psychology #trauma #men

ttpphd, 2 days ago to academicchatter

If we collectively stopped writing letters of recommendation, what would change? What new things would be created in the fresh space?

@academicchatter

ttpphd, 2 days ago to random

Take a moment and think about how contrary to the ostensibly-scientific ideal of objectivity it is to hire scientists based on letters of recommendation.

ttpphd, 2 days ago to random

Something miraculous happened today: Opening Octave, running a script without errors, and closing Octave without hanging or crashing.

I am going to try turning water to wine next.

ttpphd, 2 days ago to random

The funding situation at the VA is even more bleak this year. I am so happy with my choice not to tether myself to soft money with the VA.

ttpphd, 3 days ago to music

Fogata
by XAXO, Mario Puglia

Love the beat on this one. Smooth voices too.

"Como Freddy el mercurio me puede intoxicar"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9HtX7GuOhA

#Musica #Music #Pop

ttpphd, 3 days ago to random

Bodily autonomy for everyone, no exceptions.

ttpphd, 4 days ago to philosophy

Oops I got another book.

"Affect and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism: Pedagogies for the Renewal of Democratic Education, suggests ideas about affective pedagogies for educators to use (along with recognizing the risks involved) to renew democratic education"

By Michalinos Zembylas, 2021

https://www.cambridgeblog.org/2021/04/affect-right-wing-populism-and-education/

#Fascism #Biopower #biopolitics #philosophy #book

ttpphd, 5 days ago to Autism

Foreskin Morbidity in Uncircumcised Males
Sneppen and Thorup, Pediatrics 2016

"In our patient population, we found that 7.2% (95% CI 3.4–11.0) were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as a concomitant disease (Table 3). A recent Danish study calculated the prevalence of ASD in Denmark to be 1.5% among boys."

Association found between ASD and childhood penile surgeries. This is reference 1, next toot has #2.

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/137/5/e20154340/51976/Foreskin-Morbidity-in-Uncircumcised-Males

#Autism #circumcision #science #pediatrics