Andy Lowry @AndyLowry@qoto.org
Retired SysAdmin living in the high country of Arizona, USA. I enjoy learning about physics, cosmology, genetics, neurology, and suchlike. Deeply confused by worldwide trends towards authoritarianism. I thought we'd already learned about that stuff. But I guess not.
Joined Nov 2022
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Research Scientist/Postdoctoral/Graduate @amkarolak
Join us to study genome organization, drug discovery, novel ML approaches, and improved cancer classification @amkarolak @ml4onco!
#ScienceJobs #cancer #AI #ML
Tampa #Un...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/moffitt-cancer-center-27778-research-scientist-postdoctoral-graduate/?feed_id=33592
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Hello, I run a lab that is interested in learning how T cell activation is regulated, in particular during tolerance and cancer...
I'm interested in all aspects of #immunology #Lymphocyte #Tolerance #Cancer
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@SrRochardBunson This is an oil lamp that has been in my family for generations. No one else wanted to worry about breaking the globe, so I guess I'm responsible. I'm not a collector but I treasure the one I have. My mom would remove the globe and hide it whenever children came to visit.
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@alanthwaits@noc.social
Tufty has arrived! I think I know what I'll be doing tomorrow.
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A grown man with a tie tack shaped like an assault rifle is trying to convince Lauren Boebert to give Kevin McCarthy the gavel on a day with yet another shooting in an American mall.
Welcome to 2023.
@galand2dogs
My Leuchtterm was supposed to arrive today and I've been doing my finger exercises all day in preparation for the first impressions you'd asked me to pass along to you. What I got was an empty shipping envelope instead. Nothing is simple, nothing is easy. 🙄
If at first I don't succeed, fail, fail again.
Ordered another immediately and will see about the refund details on the morrow. Sorry for the delay; didn't want you to think I'd rudely forgotten you. 😉
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I am still trying to get the hang of how everything works here, and there are probably like 1,000 of you that I am not following yet but should be. Reply to this post, like this post, or just send me a DM if you would like me to follow you back.
I am generally ok with following anyone as long as they aren't racist, sexist, transphobic, or ableist. Any one of those is a deal-killer.
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Matt Gaetz, who is under investigation for sex trafficking, just nominated Jim Jordan, who is accused of covering up sexual abuse, for Speaker of the House.
This is the Republican Party.
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Sometimes, concept to reality is a long journey. But it is beautiful thing, when things come together.
Here is a lounge chair I built lately, to sit and watch the weather change outside my window. Maybe it needs a matching ottoman? Let me know what you think of it.
#woodworking
#woodworker
#funituredesign
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Albuquerque Democratic officials' homes, offices targeted in series of shootings : NPR
Interesting: if you look at the timeline, it appears the shooter(s) took time off for the holidays.
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By the way, Southwest blew $5.6 billion on stock buybacks in the past few years.
They could have made investments in their services and infrastructure.
They could have prepared for extreme weather events.
But no. They decided to enrich their shareholders.
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Right, #introduction time.
I'm a too close to 40 years old software engineer from Israel, married + toddler princess. He/him.
Some of my favorite things are #dotnet , #Metal music, #Football and especially #juventus and #maccabihaifa and #gaming in general, esp. CRPGs.
Also an aspiring weeb who still watches #onepiece after so many years.
Hello #hachyderm and thank you @nova !
Ask me anything and all that.
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Even the FBI recommend blocking Ads
Using Ad-blockers is one way
Doing it at aggregation points is another
Or, just don't clock Ads. I cannot recall ever clicking an Ad
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While we know that the degeneration of dopamine neurons causes Parkinson's disease, we still don't know why those neurons degenerate.
One intriguing idea is that these neurons are particularly sensitive because their dendritic arbors are absolutely HUGE. Each neuron has 1 million terminal release sites, and operates under an extremely tight energy budget.
Paper: "Living on the edge with too many mouths to feed: Why dopamine neurons die"
https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mds.25135
Picture from: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2018.00455/full#B136
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In England, “booster shot” is spelled “borchestershire shot.”
When I was scheduled for my first chemo treatment, I'd been warned that it would take about eight hours. I like reading, but eight hours straight would be a bit much on the eyes. I have plenty of video content to watch on a laptop, but I doubt I could watch anything for that long. And then I was walking through the console games section of a store one day and noticed that Skyrim, with which I'd spent a couple thousand hours on my computer (over the course of 12 years or so, it's not like that was the only thing I did with my life) was available on the Switch Lite. Though I'd never used a console before, let alone a handheld one, that looked pretty awesome to me!
And so it has turned out to be. It's a bit amazing to me that I can play the actual real full game on such a small device that once upon a time I used a fairly fancy gaming machine for. I'm in my sixties, so learning to use my thumbs that way did take some practice, but it's all second nature now. I'm nearsighted, so if I take off my glasses and hold the screen close, I have a bigger relative screen than anything I've ever had on my desk.
After six infusions of chemo, I was switched to immunotherapy, which doesn't take long enough to bother taking the Switch with me. There's a recent development lately that my oncologist is pondering using a little more chemo for, and I'm hoping he does so I can nerd out some more. 😎
It's still the only game I have for the Switch. Because, c'mon, what else could a person need? 😉
Retired SysAdmin living in the high country of Arizona, USA. I enjoy learning about physics, cosmology, genetics, neurology, and suchlike. Deeply confused by worldwide trends towards authoritarianism. I thought we'd already learned about that stuff. But I guess not.
Joined Nov 2022
