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meredithw

@meredithw@wandering.shop

I care about doing research right, disability rights, 2E kids, SFF, music & much more. Biostatistician doing pediatric HIV clinical trials, previously psychiatry research. Life's too short to specialize. Never stopped masking.

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Sheril, to books
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Knowing so many of you share my love of , maybe you can help me find a new one to get lost in. I just finished “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr which was beautiful.

We haven’t compiled a good reading list together in months…

What stories have you discovered or rediscovered lately? 📚

meredithw,
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@Sheril If you like SFF I highly recommend "Light from Uncommon Stars" by @rykaaoki and the Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers as books that touch the heart.

cdlhamma, to random
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@Teri_Kanefield how closely do you think other judges involved in his cases are monitoring his antics in NY?

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-attacks-judge-engoron-clerk-new-york-fraud-trial-1234838462/

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@Teri_Kanefield @cdlhamma The quote I read said "Consider this statement a gag order forbidding all parties from posting emailing or speaking publicly about any of my staff."

Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    @Teri_Kanefield "Also sitting there glaring and making mad faces is a bad idea in front of a jury." But it goes over well with a judge? 🤣

    Kencf618033, to Wikipedia

    @Teri_Kanefield My newest article. Yours is my third biographical piece, if memory serves, so welcome to the club! (Shall flesh it out later).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teri_Kanefield

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    @Teri_Kanefield @Kencf618033 Well deserved!

    Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    @Teri_Kanefield Yes, on the umbilical cord! Mine stretched to Hungary junior year - I was very grateful for the internet making calls free.

    universalhub, to boston
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    Maybe it was priced for a quick sale?
    https://www.universalhub.com/2023/maybe-it-was-priced-quick-sale

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    @universalhub ROTFL!
    So hockey sticks make good oars?

    kissane, to random
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    This book review is going to give me nightmares for the rest of my life

    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-chinese-history/article/was-there-an-administrative-revolution/AD2E74A82073AAEAA5105E946BA17823#fn23

    (via Ted McCormick on Bsky)

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    @kissane It made it to Retraction Watch
    https://retractionwatch.com/2023/09/25/yale-professors-book-systematically-misrepresents-sources-review-claims/

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    @Teri_Kanefield This is scathing! i love the footnote beginning "As every New Yorker knows..."

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    @darrellpf @ar_collins @Susan60 @Elizabeth3 @AqiDraco @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd

    My non-gmail email program does this. I don't see it as nagging - I find it a helpful reminder since my ADHD brain can easily press "send" without having included a promised attachment. I wish our program at work did this - would save me some embarrassing mistakes!

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    @Susan60 @ar_collins @Elizabeth3 @AqiDraco @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd I do this when writing something sensitive, or if I haven't decided the full list of people to include.

    Also, when I want to respond only to the sender and not a whole email list, I use "forward" instead of "send" so I don't accidentally broadcast something private. It has saved me from making some serious errors.

    MissingThePt, to random
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    Well wishes to those preparing for the eight nights of Yom Kippur.

    meredithw,
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    @MissingThePt Reminds me of a couple of years ago when the Harvard Alumni Association wished people a happy Yom Kippur. The comments on that tweet were priceless.

    And in typical Hahvahd fashion, the tweet was later deleted with no comment or admission of having made a mistake.

    stevesilberman, to random
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    G'mar chatima tova! May you be sealed in the Book of Life.

    This was our semi-Jewish meal to celebrate the New Year: Crispy duck confit (which I did not make), with tzimmes made from sweet potatoes, carrots, beets, prunes, a Walla Walla onion, honey, and orange zest. My first homemade tzimmes ever. It was amazing with the duck. Love and life to all of you.

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    @stevesilberman Yum! G'mar chatima tova!

    theADHDAcademic, to disability
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    Another resource is @DisabledInSTEM's Accessibility Review Form. This disability resource is for students (although I would love a version for staff/faculty...).

    It's relatively new but a great place to check for academic ableism, success stories, and students can (& should) add to it.






    @academicchatter

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    @theADHDAcademic @DisabledInSTEM @academicchatter

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    Great resource for disabled students: Disabled in STEM's Accessibility Review Form https://disabledinstem.wordpress.com/
    See what other students have asked for in terms of accommodations. View responses in a spreadsheet. -Submit your own experiences anonymously.

    Graphic by the .ADHD Acad.
    Do not reuse without permission.

    ProPublica, to Massachusetts
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    Has a Huge Waitlist for State-Funded .

    So Why Are 2,300 Units Vacant?

    are stuck in shelters or sleeping in their cars while a flawed state selection process and meager funding for renovations leave empty for years.

    https://www.propublica.org/article/massachusetts-public-housing-units-vacant-despite-waitlists?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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    @ProPublica @universalhub

    meredithw, to random
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    Who said no good can come from mansplaining?

    GottaLaff, to random
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    💉😷Why yes! Yes, I did just get my , now that you mention it.

    Now I’ve had all 3 vaxxes: COVID, flu, RSV. 👏🏻💪🏼

    Your turn!🫵🏼

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    @GottaLaff 4 days from now

    GottaLaff, to random
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    I get emails. This one is from my pal Wiley Miller, who gave me a shout out!

    "Just hoping you noticed the little shout out in today’s cartoon.😎"

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    @GottaLaff has Wiley come here or to the blue side?

    GottaLaff, to Virginia
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    🙁Democratic Rep. Jennifer Wexton of announced Monday morning she will finish out her term in Congress but will not seek reelection, citing health concerns.

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/18/politics/jennifer-wexton-not-running-reelection

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    @GottaLaff sad news and sad reason

    ct_bergstrom, to random
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    I love how Springer-Nature has hopped so unapologetically onto the grift train that they are trying to sell unframed "posters" (read: silly certificates of merit) to their authors for 189 bucks.

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    @ct_bergstrom @fabfelder WTF?!

    lauren, to random
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    Without a shadow of a doubt the single most useful class I ever took in school at any level, was TOUCH TYPING in Junior High. A room full of big old mechanical manual typewriters. Endless seemingly silly exercises.

    At the time, my thinking was that it would be useful later for writing term papers and such. I of course had not an inkling that I would essentially spend my entire career chained to terminal and computer keyboards.

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    @lauren I found that even more true because when I was in college my part-time job was FORTRAN programming - on punch cards! You could wait an hour for the operator to run your program only to find it had crashed due to a typo. Being an accurate touch typist was priceless!

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    @lauren And that is why during the summers I'd work weekend evenings, because my friend was weekend evening operator and would let me run my own jobs.

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    @lauren In my case, the IBM 360/65. Those summer evenings are how I met my ex - the a/c in the computer room had died so the 360 kept crashing, so I was hanging out in the computer room with Fred (who was also my ride home) and an astrophysics grad student who needed the computer. Grad student and I, both from NYC, were appalled to learn that Fred from TN had never had Chinese food, so we took him to Chinatown when his shift ended to rectify that egregious gap. Early computer dating. ✨

    meredithw, to ADHD
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    @isagalaev the ADHD part is when it happens for something that isn't particularly creative or demanding. It can happen for something routine; feels like my mental boots are glued to the floor and I just can't move forward.

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    @isagalaev @LauraLangdon No one said anything about treatment! "Neurosparkly" is slang meaning not neurotypical in some ways - doesn't mean disordered.

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    @LauraLangdon @isagalaev

    • I think ADHx is a disorder if it feels like one to you, isn't if it doesn't. I know people who don't feel like it is, and I'm cool with that for them. I just don't want them insisting I should deny my own lived experience where it does cause impairment in my life.

    • I definitely think it should be renamed for a host of reasons (including what I said earlier; it's a deficit in attention REGULATION, not attention itself).

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