Andrew Kennard @askennard@qoto.org
- Website
- https://andrewkennard.github.io
- Google Scholar
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ifhxikkAAAAJ
Cell biologist and biophysicist studying evolutionary cell biology.
I'm interested in how amoebae divide, especially relatives of the "brain-eating amoeba"
I study this with microscopy, image analysis, and comparative genomics.
Postdoc at UMass Amherst Biology, PhD in Biophysics from Stanford.
I also love jazz and nature photography!
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Joined Nov 2022
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We shall build a new science for a world that is not a machine.
A science built on true complexity, a wiser science that knows its limits.
A science more rigorous than the modern one, free of woo and mysticism.
https://www.expandingpossibilities.org/manifesto_kairos.html
Text: @yoginho
Art: @mneustetter
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Hey US-based Sciencers,
Do you use SGD (yeastgenome.org) they need a letter of support from you for a grant application. Check for an e-mail from Gavin Sherlock from earlier this month. I've asked for a link to share and will do so if I receive it. Otherwise, DM me for Gavin's contact info.
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@Zamfr @futurebird came here to recommend this book! I had forgotten the exact analogies but I found them very interesting back in the day.
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There is a nice attempt in Visual complex analysis, by Tristan Needham.
He first encourages you to see exp(x) as (1 + x/n)**n for n-> infinity. Interest paid out continuously, you know.
That has a nice geometric equivalent for complex exp(x + iy). Namely, a stack of n triangles with height y/n. As n goes to infinity, that stack is a spiral, or a circle if the real part is zero
Edit: and the circle then maps to cos and sin
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The origin and early evolution of vascular plant shoots and leaves https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstb.2016.0496?mi=bb9b4g&af=R&KeywordRaw=evo-devo&target=default #EvoDevo #Papers
Apropos of nothing, here is a legendary big band absolutely crushing it.
The Groove Merchant — Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra
https://youtu.be/4ZLvqXFddu0?t=23&si=O6h3PNdO0BXG0kUA
Featuring Sir Roland Hanna at the top — not to be missed. Happy weekend!
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A large popular platform can be a safer, more diverse & more welcoming space.
I strongly dislike the tendency of people to abscond off into private communities. I don't like places that are not public & open. Mostly facebook groups convinced me that such places can be the most toxic places possible online.
I want a big public square and the intersections that such a place makes possible. I don't just want to talk to math people and tech people. I hate the isolation.
- Website
- https://andrewkennard.github.io
- Google Scholar
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ifhxikkAAAAJ
Cell biologist and biophysicist studying evolutionary cell biology.
I'm interested in how amoebae divide, especially relatives of the "brain-eating amoeba"
I study this with microscopy, image analysis, and comparative genomics.
Postdoc at UMass Amherst Biology, PhD in Biophysics from Stanford.
I also love jazz and nature photography!
searchable
Joined Nov 2022
