Leo Betschart @betschart@qoto.org

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Years later, we're still here. Ad-free. Non-profit. Open source. Millions strong.

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I have seen all 4 of these lines of best fit in published peer-reviewed papers and oddly the top left is probably the rarest type 📉

If people keep telling you to meditate or “practice mindfulness” and listening to an improbably youthful Gwyneth Paltrow wannabe chat shit for twenty minutes on an overpriced app that makes dubious claims of efficacy doesn’t do it for you, a brisk walk in the park listening to drum’n’bass, hardcore breakbeat, jungle and so on may give you the same purported benefits without the aesthetic awfulness.

For those who aren’t into bleepy bloop music, I’m told fast/aggressive metal works well too.

I don't (ever) post Tumblr screenshots I found on other websites, but this is, the correct shit

post mortem on the Gino case, by a #whistleblower
https://www.theorgplumber.com/posts/statement/
#fraud #psychology

@betschart
Back in the days, obviously, girls seemed an obscure audience for chemistry books 🙄
@SRDas

This is the most balanced statement I have read all week:

"Of course we should also have sympathy for the palestinians, but we should have no sympathy for Hamas. It is crucial to separate these two: The Palestinians are not Hamas, and Hamas is not the Palestinians."

— Jewish Rabi of Denmark Jair Melchior.

Shocking story about mRNA pioneer/Nobel winner Katalin Karikó, whose early advisor at Temple tried to have her deported & derailed her career because she dared to look for a better-paying job.

Later, UPenn demoted her, then forced her out, because her research wasn't bringing in enough funding. #NobelPrize #science [HT Paul Novosad]

What's even the point of getting a PhD in the middle of a pandemic if you're *not* going to make a plague doctor mask and wander around campus wearing it along with your regalia?

Cheers to all of my fellow plague doctors from the class of 2021 or 2020!

As foretold by @cwebber ( https://octodon.social/@cwebber/107475000512669706 )