Laina

@lainaemmanuel
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I currently head a company working on making fMRI more accessible for clinicians. I have worked in IT and in policy and done a lot of experimentation in between.

More on creeping denialism and the continuing need for vigilance and resistance.

"Scientists in #India are protesting a decision to remove discussion of Charles Darwin’s theory of #evolution from textbooks used by millions of students in ninth and 10th grades. More than 4000 researchers and others have so far signed an open letter asking officials to restore the material."
https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-india-protest-move-drop-darwinian-evolution-textbooks

Scientists in India protest move to drop Darwinian evolution from textbooks

Decision marks troubling rejection of science, critics say

Mann ki baat vs Jan ki baat

Posted in r/india by u/shrigay • 8 points and 2 comments

reddit
The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently to William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman

The Guardian
I think it is interesting and says something about tech in general that even Elon understood he had to hire rocket scientists and car manufacturing engineers and neuroscientists for those projects but he doesn't appear to have hired a single expert in communication or social dynamics when taking over Twitter, the same appears to be true for every other newly founded social network where I have taken a look at the leadership.
Rosalind Franklin knew DNA was a helix before Watson and Crick, unpublished material reveals
A new paper based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix.
https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/rosalind-franklin-knew-dna-was-a-helix-before-watson-and-crick-unpublished-material-reveals #RosalindFranklin #DoubleHelix #DNA
Rosalind Franklin knew DNA was a helix before Watson and Crick, unpublished material reveals

A new paper based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix.

Live Science
Oh my God every time I see a tweet disappearing from my time line because its critical of Modani, I curse the parents who created the El-on monster
Whatever it happening with Twitter right now is giving me the same feeling as when that boat got stuck in the Suez Canal and I love it. #twitterdown

#MastodonNews Dec 20, 2022

CNN: As Twitter backlash grows, rival Mastodon reaches 2.5 million monthly users >>> https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/20/tech/mastodon-twitter-usage/index.html

Twitter rival Mastodon has grown eight times its size in a matter of weeks, going from approximately 300,000 users in October to 2.5 million in November, according to a blog post by the platform’s founder, Eugen Rochko.

#twittermigration
More News >>> https://medium.com/@mastodonmigration/sharing-advice-and-assisting-with-the-great-mastodon-migration-53c1a286b805#cfd1

Back in my performance art days I did a piece called “Five Approaches to Guitar,” where I sat next to the guitar in its stand and poured it a glass of wine, read it poetry, offered chocolates, threatened it with a baseball bat, and wept.
Everything except actually playing it.
Anyway, that’s what #writing is also like for me.
As Twitter kicked me out of the so-called digital town square, I'm trying to embrace the open source Mastodon with high hopes.
Please say hello and help me to navigate through this new app.
#newbie #hello #India #twitter