Best of Twitter - Week of July 12, 2021 (2/2)
A therapist is an expert in manipulating people, whose entire financial incentive is to keep you coming back forever, and with whom you can enter into an un-auditable treatment regime with zero criteria for when you'll stop.
But psilocybin is illegal.
Interesting trend I’ve noticed: Around half of the prominent grad students (by my estimation) that I looked up to when I started my PhD have left for industry, despite having CNS papers, national awards, and presumably their pick of postdocs/early independence positions.
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NYC things people think get the money:
Police: $5.4 billion
Fire: $2.1
Sanitation: $1.77
Corrections: $1.2
Parks $0.54
Libraries $0.39
COLLECTIVELY that is less than the $11 billion to Dept of Social Services.
Dept of Education, FYI, gets $31 billion.
“A percentage of 30.4% (n = 413) of participants self-reported their height within the range of ±5.08 cm (2 inches) of their physically measured height.” 😂 res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/i…
Hard to imagine the 19th century as worse for fertility than the 20th
Before the closing of the frontier, before the pill, before plastics
Was it just industrialization?
Leopold Aschenbrenner @leopoldasch
My lab just published an A.I. tool that can in do in 10 minutes what used to take scientists years.
The software computes the shape of a protein based on its DNA sequence.
We've made the tool free. 500 scientists used it in the last month.
Buckle up — biotech is gonna be wild https://t.co/04PA3kT5gt
Meagan Phelan @MeaganPhelan
Successfully predicted one of the @Foldit denovo designs using #alphafold in google-colab😎 (1 model, no template, single sequence input, and no amber refine, ~2 mins). Notebook if anybody wanna try input your favorite sequence:
colab.research.google.com/drive/1qWO6Arw…
"Perhaps the most intriguing result is that the ERA5 reanalysis shows hints that temperature variability is actually decreasing, not increasing, in both winter and summer (for 30-60°N land)."
TIL: variance in temperature is *not* increasing 🤯
worldclimateservice.com/2021/03/01/tre…
^ any climate-scientist subscribers can comment whether this checks out?
"Here are the shocking statistics – out of Sikorsky’s 75 engineers:
1 died during World War I before 1917.
25 died between 1917 and 1924.
32 emigrated.
Of the 17 who remained in the USSR, a further 8 were subsequently repressed."
"Nor was the aerospace industry some sort of exception – according to the estimates of Dmitry Saprykin, a researcher at the Institute of Scientific History RAN, Russia lost 70%-90% of the most qualified cadres across a range of hi-tech industries**."
Fantastic work by the Hayashi group. Generation of mouse oocytes from stem cells. One step closer to in vitro gametogenesis
^ oocyte is the cell that turns into an egg