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@neuropsychdoc.bsky.social
Pediatric neuropsychologist; rare disease researcher; community-engaged scientist and clinician; native plant enthusiast
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I've never seen a piece in Science that raidates more emotion- to use the author's excellent phrase, "volcanically pissed off". Essential (if awful) reading.

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...
What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
www.science.org
February 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The 39th time we've had to post this, and this time about The Onion's original hometown.
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
MADISON, WI—In the hours following a violent rampage in Wisconsin in which a lone attacker killed at least two individuals and injured six others, citizens living in the only country where this kind o...
theonion.com
December 16, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
December 6, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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One of the most surprising lessons for me during my 30 years of doing science is how it's essentially impossible predict what major scientific breakthroughs will emerge or where they will emerge from. But the way we fund science is mostly based on the assumption that we can make such predictions.
December 3, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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This week in Science Without Anguish:

Loneliness and the long distance researcher. Overcoming isolation for science and wellbeing.

www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/overcom...

This is the last post in Series 2. Stay tuned for webinar announcements, plans for a coaching programme and Series 3.
December 2, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Anyone else coping with feelings of doom by stealthy planning of how to turn chunks of grass into habitat for insects and birds? #nativeplants #homegrownnationalpark
November 29, 2024 at 2:35 PM