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manisha

@manisha@neuromatch.social

I question academic, scientific, and cultural norms, and who they serve.

sculpting cooperative communities of practice and democratizing science @ https://echonetwork.in #climatematch #neuromatch

introvert with keyboard courage :P lover of both the beauty of chaos and ugly perfection :D victim of #ImposterSyndrome trying to embrace my #neurodiverse brain

interested in: a myriad of things #ScientificReform #AcademicReform #OpenScience #OpenInfrastructure #PublicPolicy #governance #cooperatives #sustainability #gardening #RegenerativeAgriculture #Permaculture #EcosystemServices #AccessAndBenefitSharing #NaturalCapitalAccounting #EcosystemsValuation

me: I choose to not disclose my number of followers and my social graph because I am not here for clout and appreciate some digital privacy. #NoIndex #NoBot #NoBridge

also me: I have 2 followers lol

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manisha, to random
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In other news from India, after a week of ~45°C temp, which felt more like ~50°C due to the humidity, we finally had some light showers today!

manisha,
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@elduvelle yeah the heatwaves are getting worse each year 😭

manisha, to random
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Am sleepy but also want to know the election results!

https://results.eci.gov.in/PcResultGenJune2024/index.htm

eliezyer, to random
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I'm going to be honest and say that writing papers isn't my favorite activity, I'd rather be doing another experiment or analyzing data. Does anyone want to share their thoughts on how you make this activity more enjoyable? I'd appreciate it :brain_loading:

manisha,
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@eliezyer same here! I enjoy non-academic writing because I can just let my thoughts flow. What breaks that train of thought for academic writing is having to insert references at appropriate locations. What I've found helpful is to keep most of the bibliography in a reference manager ready beforehand (i.e. keep collecting refs while the project is ongoing).

The following process is not necessarily enjoyable but this method of breaking the article down to smaller more manageable sections and tackling them in this order has been helpful for me:

  • I find it easier to keep detailed documentation of all the methods I use throughout the project. Edit that and bam, the Methods section is done!
  • my brain loves to hyperfocus on the title -- probably because it's a one-liner that usually highlights the key finding of the study. If I don't know this key finding, my brain simply refuses to focus on writing! The title also helps anchor how I write the introduction to the problem being addressed.
  • ime, most of the work for writing a paper is done once I've prepared the figures and ordered them. Writing figure legends and Results becomes straightforward then as I'm mostly describing what can be seen/inferred from the figures.
  • While I'm writing the results (and during the project), I make a note of assumptions and limitations, what we could've done better, what's missing, etc. That becomes the Future Directions/Discussion section.
  • I tend to write the abstract at the very end. I do enjoy writing this summary because most of the "heavy" work is done before reaching this stage 🙃
manisha, to academicchatter
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Interviewing PhD candidates for the first time and the role reversal feels... weird! All the candidates bring something different to the table and it's such a tough call to decide who makes the cut.

@academicchatter

manisha, to til
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that elephants purr!

"Stand near an elephant herd, and you may feel a strange vibration in your chest. That’s not your heart beating in terror because you’re, well, standing next to an elephant herd. Or at least that’s not all it is. It’s also a sign that the elephants are talking to one another. Elephants are famous for their trumpeting, of course, but they also produce rumbles pitched so low that humans can’t hear them, only feel them as a sort of physical buzzing. Exactly how elephants do this has been a mystery — and while solving that mystery is not of first-order importance in understanding and preserving this largest of land animals, it would add new insight into how a whole range of species vocalize."

The Mystery of the Purring Elephant

ai6yr, (edited ) to gardening
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25 feet tall! Agave appears to be preparing to bloom. I wonder if I could turn this into a radio antenna.

manisha,
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@ai6yr there's a section of it that to me looks like an eye and a mouth 😄​ is this the tequila kind or the mezcal kind?

manisha, to ai
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huh, so we have the world's first generated video now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nb-M1GAOX8

I love the subheading of this article that covered it: The future is underwhelming lol

manisha,
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@jonny right? eerie

preetam, to random

Hi All,
Any idea how to make the payment for the course. It is not mentioned properly in the email

manisha,
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@preetam all information about payment should be on the portal. You'd need to login and click on the course that you've been accepted for. Hope this helps! If you still face any issues, please reach out to support@neuromatch.io

@jonny @neuromatch

manisha, to india
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In India, when you go to vote they mark a line on your left index finger's nail and cuticle with an "indelible" blue/dark purple ink to prevent voter fraud. This stain doesn't come off for a few weeks. What I didn't know is that there are several other countries that have also adopted this election ink and in some countries they stain the index finger tip completely!

It's 11 am here rn and already the temp has gone up to 38 deg C. I'm so glad that we left early in the morning today to go vote for the Lok Sabha elections. At 8 am it was cool cloudy weather and we didn't have to stand in the queue too long 🙂​

manisha, to academia
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Funding research, fighting divestment

"Details about oil majors contributing hundreds of millions of dollars to top universities to build relationships that could help the industry avoid taking climate action were inside thousands of pages of documents unveiled Tuesday by Democrats on the House Oversight and Accountability and the Senate Budget committees.

Of the files released Tuesday, many show the extraordinary lengths energy giants have gone to in order to maintain public support for the oil industry — a major employer that’s also one of the nation’s top corporate climate polluters.

Companies have acknowledged, then flat-out ignored, stark warnings about the fate of the planet in relation to their activities."

Big Oil document dump spotlights industry influence in academia

@academicchatter

manisha, to random
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ugh, with ddg getting enshittified, I'm switching to https://www.startpage.com

manisha,
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@elduvelle @kofanchen yes that. last year as well ddg had tried to launch their own AI-assisted search called DuckAssist but it was squashed by their rival Microsoft.

Now they've basically partnered up Microsoft via OpenAI - for their AI chat bot. This is so sad that they had to become friends with their rival -- all for a feature people didn't even ask for in the first place.

There are claims that the data will not be used for training LLMs but it all depends on how much does one trust OpenAI there.

manisha,
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@jonny @elduvelle @kofanchen yeah and all this for what? just for riding the "AI wave" smh

jonny, to random
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Capybaras are a good counterexample to "cute things are just things with baby lookin features."

Tiny little eyes, big boxy jaw, big honkin chompers, they are like anti-babies except for being real lil.

And yet I could look at one million photos of capybaras and I just want to pinch those cheekies

manisha,
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@jonny capys are so Zen ☺️​ I'm yet to see an angry capy

manisha, to climate
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We at the Climatematch Impact Scholars Program are so excited to organize the seminars this week (26-27 March) to showcase the research carried out by the Impact Scholars 🎉​

This research is a continuation of the projects they carried out during the Computational Tools for Climate Science course in 2023. The seminars will be chaired by climate scientists from CMIP and LEAP and are open to the public ✨​ Please register here and join us in cheering on these aspiring climate researchers! 🥳​

Video credits: @ceydabtekin

@academicchatter

A brief video highlighting the projects carried out by teams from 25 countries on 6 continents as part of the Climatematch Impact Scholars Program and the various public seminar sessions happening on the 26-27th of March. These sessions will be chaired by climate scientists from CMIP and LEAP.

manisha, to sustainability
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The Sustainability Ambassadors Global Exchange (SAGE) Program is back!

We are thrilled to announce the SAGE PhD Fellows program! This 3-year program is intended to nurture future impact leaders in solution-based sustainability research projects co-created with communities and consortia members.

To learn about the application process & program details, see this: SAGE PhD Fellowship Program 2024

Please help us spread the word. Boosts appreciated! 🙂​

#PhD #sustainability #research #India #Denmark #Ecosystem #EcosystemServices #EcosystemValuation #OneHealth #Ecology #environment #climate #CircularEconomy #RuralLivelihoods #SAGE

manisha,
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In collaboration with The Nordic Centre in India we are also launching the 2nd year of our Sustainability Ambassadors Global Exchange (SAGE) Senior Ambassadors Program!

This is a unique opportunity to activate bright and motivated minds to consider current issues in global sustainability, with India as the target.

Applications are open till April 5th, 2024.

Program details here: SAGE Senior Ambassadors Program 2024

#sustainability #research #India #Ecosystem #EcosystemServices #EcosystemValuation #OneHealth #Ecology #environment #climate #CircularEconomy #WASH #RegenerativeAgriculture #SAGE

manisha, to random
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The study offers valuable insights that may serve as a reference for the eventual achievement of artificial photosynthesis in mammals.

Toward Photosynthetic Mammalian Cells through Artificial Endosymbiosis

👀​

h/t https://mastodon.social/@schymans/112137972830630961

pierre_bellec, to random

A todo list for procrastinators. I've struggled with procrastination forever, sometimes severely. Over the years I've developed a system which works for me in order to get things done. I wrote this system down first for myself, but I figured some fellow procrastinators may find it useful as well.

Part 1 - Gentle introduction https://pbellec.github.io/todo-procrastinator/intro.html
Part 2 - Some background https://pbellec.github.io/todo-procrastinator/origins_todo.html
Part 3 - The actual "Todo list for procrastinators" https://pbellec.github.io/todo-procrastinator/how_todo_procrastinators.html
Part 4 - Some thoughts on the origins of procrastination https://pbellec.github.io/todo-procrastinator/origins_procrastinators.html

Note that the system can be implemented with any software to manage todo lists. I am personally using @obsidian which I absolutely love.

As a bonus I've added an illustration representing the character Madeline from the game Celeste, together with her inner self. I refer to that duo a lot in Part 4. This illustration is a Fan-art by GomiGomiPomi reproduced with permission from the author (Usage of my drawings is allowed as long as proper credits are given and it’s not for commercial purposes).

manisha,
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@pierre_bellec

"Specifically, it is common practice for many people to block time out of their schedules to work on a specific todo task. Which, for a hardcore procrastinator, sounds more like a dark joke than anything. Committing to do a specific thing at a specific time is essentially guarantying that thing will not get done (possibly ever, due to procrastination trauma)."

It's so true :lolsob:​ I dunno about the Freud part but I really like the Meet Your Spirit Animal section. I think of it as a gut feeling - sometimes some task/project looks really enticing but if my gut tells me that there's no way I will make time to do it, I am only recently starting to say no to such tasks.

thank you for writing on behalf of and for procrastinators!!

manisha, to academia
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I can be a “normal” student: the role of lecture capture
in supporting disabled and neurodivergent students’
participation in higher education

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10734-024-01201-5.pdf

@academicchatter

grimalkina, to random
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I had to explain postdocs to another colleague and once again, there was no way to do it without everything about academia sounding truly bonkers

manisha,
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@grimalkina truly bonkers sounds absolutely right! when I was looking into why postdoc positions exist, I had learnt that this position was created primarily because there were far too many PhDs graduating than there were Assistant Professor positions available for them to continue in the traditional academic career trajectory. So an intermediate temporary position was created. What's worse is that present-day postdocs are called trainees whereas in the past they were considered already well-trained during their PhD to go on to become Assistant Professors.

I also vaguely remember that Assistant Professors in the past were supposed to actually assist a senior Professor whose lab they were a member of. I could be wrong but I believe this is still true in places like Japan.

NicoleCRust, to random
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Declaration ❤️ 🦣

Finally updated my website (that was overdue!). And declared to the world that y’all are my favorites.

https://www.nicolerust.com/

manisha,
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@NicoleCRust ❤️ :FaceHoldingBackTears:​ 🙏​

NicoleCRust, to random
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Gratitude to Kay Tye at Cosyne.

"Raise your hand if you or someone you know experienced sexual harassment or misconduct .... next time you are asked this question, you can all raise your hand because you know me ..."

Wisdom and grace- this talk is full of it.

https://youtu.be/Tr97HwgQ9ik?t=4549

manisha,
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@NicoleCRust "Academic power structures as they currently stand are toxic - as evidenced by the outcomes" - Kay Tye

As relatively junior scientists, some of us have talked about academic toxicity in the past only to be harassed, silenced, ignored, or forced to leave. I'm glad that someone in a position of power acknowledged the toxicity. I hope that the toxic hierarchy collapses sooner than later.

Us choosing a cooperative form of governance at neuromatch.social, instead of a typical top-down hierarchy, is our attempt of trying a different power structure. I hope that we see more of such experiments permeate throughout academia.

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