manisha

@manisha@neuromatch.social
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I question academic, scientific, and cultural norms, and who they serve.

sculpting cooperative communities of practice and democratizing science @ https://theecho.network #climatematch #neuromatch

introvert with keyboard courage :P lover of both the beauty of chaos and ugly perfection :D victim of #ImposterSyndrome trying to embrace my #neurodiverse brain

interested in: a myriad of things #ScientificReform #AcademicReform #OpenScience #OpenInfrastructure #PublicPolicy #governance #cooperatives #sustainability #gardening #RegenerativeAgriculture #Permaculture #EcosystemServices #AccessAndBenefitSharing #NaturalCapitalAccounting #EcosystemsValuation

me: I choose to not disclose my number of followers and my social graph because I am not here for clout and appreciate some digital privacy. #NoIndex #NoBot #NoBridge

also me: I have -1 follower lol

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Head of Researchhttps://theecho.network
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hub of my gitshttps://github.com/mannazsci
1/4 New preprint! We designed an open-source system for auditory brainstem response (ABR), a research & clinical auditory test. Costs $400 to build (vs $10K to buy a proprietary one) and works great! All open-source if you want to make one for your lab or classroom. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.17.694771v1

One of my best friends and colleagues, Nuno Loureiro, who I had known for almost twenty years, was shot in his house in Boston on Monday, and tragically passed away shortly after that. He was a professor and researcher in plasma physics at MIT. It took me a few days to fathom the news and to digest the emotional shock. I thought I would pay him a little tribute today by posting a few lines […]

https://lookingup.francois-rincon.org/nuno/

Self hosting a Postgres or MySQL/MariaDB database is often treated like a horror story told around a campfire, a narrative carefully created by big cloud providers over the last decade. But is it actually "terrifying," or just a lost art of Sysadmining? This post talks the reality of self hosting versus managed cloud versions like AWS RDS, cutting through the marketing to look at the actual trade offs for both IT pros and developers.

https://pierce.dev/notes/go-ahead-self-host-postgres

Go ahead, self-host Postgres | Pierce Freeman

Self-hosting Postgres is simpler and cheaper than managed services suggest, with comparable reliability and better performance tunability.

Baffled scientists discover 69-year-old woman from Guadeloupe has an entirely new blood type

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/woman-new-blood-type-ex1

Is a single broccoli floret a broccolus
@sue The idea that AI is going to solve this is... I think pretty optimistic. Is code you don't really understand better when it's generated in house? Maybe access is improved, but comprehension isn't, and accountability gets pretty blurry...
So the fine people in immunology are talking about a connectome of immune cell interactions... I wonder if synaptome is to much of a word or a missed opportunity by neuroscience.

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RE: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/12/19/implementing-encrypted-messaging-over-activitypub/

Big news for the #Fediverse! End-to-end encryption is coming to #ActivityPub.

@swf with support from @sovtechfund is coordinating two interoperable implementations.

Bonfire is proud to be one of these first two projects, alongside #Emissary by @benpate

We think #E2EE should simply be the default for any private communications, and we’re especially thrilled to bring private, trusted collaboration to the fediverse.

#JustBetweenUs #Privacy #Encryption #SocialWeb

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