What It Looks Like When Neurons Make Connections And Communicate With Each Other

nothing is as tender as annotating your favourite books. it’s like leaving a piece of your heart on the pages for somebody else to find.

Marcus Aurelius Please Stop Owning Me From The Year Of Our Lord 170 CE challenge

“The time available for her to submit grants and write papers decreased sharply in the year and a half after she first became a mother. And her lower productivity continued after she had two more sons, but there often wasn’t a way to explain that on her grant applications.”

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00252-5

I also have a hard time explaining in my grant applications my PhD period. Even though it took 6 years to finish my PhD, I actually was much faster than average. I was on full maternity leaves not working at all for 2 years (!!) and the rest I worked part time. I managed to get my PhD in total of 3 years and 2 months of full time work equivalent.

I am glad people start noticing this and Nature writes about this issue. Let’s not punish researchers for having kids!

(via miss-biophys)

Every time i’ve had to replant anything with serious roots and shake the dirt out i just can’t unsee the parallel

https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/12/29/researchers-from-mit-sakana-ai-openai-and-swiss-ai-lab-idsia-propose-a-new-algorithm-called-automated-search-for-artificial-life-asal-to-automate-the-discovery-of-artificial-life-using-vision-lang/

oblivious

Morphological differences between thorns, spines, and prickles