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ttpphd

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Applied and translational sensory scientist. Advocate for bodily autonomy. Nonbinary feminist killjoy.

https://ttpphd.com

Alt-text: me, a chubby faced white person with long dark brown curly hair, giving side eye behind some glasses.

Banner: a person in a denim jacket on a bike with a life sized plastic skeleton attached to the rear carrier.

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ttpphd, to Autism
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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

Wuzzy, to science
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As long society accepts genital "surgeries" on 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 penetrative intercourse, and to help the child to and sexual norms"

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

ttpphd,
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@Wuzzy all forms of nonconsensual genital cutting should be banned, including penile circumcision and medically unnecessary intersex surgeries. Right on.

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

ttpphd, to random
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The decade of the scam.

ttpphd, to random
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Good morning!

Anything is possible.

Even for you.

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

ttpphd, to random
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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,
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Let's see if I can persuade him to have a chat over coffee.

ttpphd, (edited ) to science
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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."

ttpphd, to random
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I need a hug.

ttpphd, to random
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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/

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

@academicchatter

ttpphd, to random
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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, to random
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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, to random
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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, to music
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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

ttpphd, to random
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Bodily autonomy for everyone, no exceptions.

ttpphd, to academicchatter
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"The really important part [of science] are causal analyses, and they practically always involve data collection. That's why sciences with strong experimental traditions fare a bit better - when you need to run a costly experiment yourself in order to publish a paper, this creates a strong incentive to think things through and do high-impact research."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40332833

Personal investment and motivation leads to high impact research. Subjectivity drives "objectivity".

@academicchatter

ttpphd, to Autism
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Study shows heightened sensitivity to PTSD in autism

Parvalbumin interneuron activity in autism underlies susceptibility to PTSD-like memory formation
Abed et al., 2024, iScience

"ASD and PTSD share common features, including impaired emotional regulation, altered explicit memory, and difficulties with fear conditioning.

“We demonstrated in four mouse models of ASD that a single mild stress can form a traumatic memory.” "

https://qbi.uq.edu.au/article/2024/05/study-shows-heightened-sensitivity-ptsd-autism

ttpphd,
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@alex

Here's the follow up comment from the researcher: “We demonstrated in four mouse models of ASD that a single mild stress can form a traumatic memory.”

“In a control population, on the other hand, PTSD is triggered by extreme stress.”

So it sounds like ASD mouse model showed more extreme fear conditioning.

ttpphd, to philosophy
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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/

ttpphd,
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This book has lots of interesting ideas that are helping me refine my thinking of political change, moral panic, citizenship in a democracy, and empathy or compassion as a political emotion (souring into pity).

Gonna think about how to translate this to plainer English...

ttpphd, to portland
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Happy Saturday!

Seen in

ttpphd, to Autism
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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

ttpphd,
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@prabirkc I don't think so.

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