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Evolutionary biologist, teaching-track professor (knowledge transmitter), board game and cat enthusiast, teller of Dad jokes, believer that sarcasm doesn't have to be mean or denigrating. Also a "damn greenblooded hobgoblin". I read a lot. 🏳️🌈🧫 👨
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Yeah, her math was way ahead of its time, and she made huge contributions to our understanding of nuclear physics.
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For what it's worth, I have no legal training at all and I find your explanations of various cases and legal practices quite interesting and easy to understand.
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Any chance they're recording it? There are a number of video services where it's fairly easy to get machine transcription captions that, while far from perfect, are often decent enough have a general sense of what's being said for your own interest.
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(I can't confirm; I only know English fluently and my broken Spanish lets me understand Spanish and sometimes Italian)
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Google Translate suggests it's German for "Number of protons"
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Also ATTN @nuclearanthro.bsky.social
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Phrasing!
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This is right up there with one of those ludicrously photorealistic drawings you can mistake for a photograph.
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Congrats! See, you are less cursed now!
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ALSO, given your list of potential things to do with your time, let me know if you ever want a list of some fun YouTube nerd content channels (I watch a number of science communication ones for fun).
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Aww, thank you.
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It sounds like you've had it rougher than I have. Mine felt pretty manageable even without diagnosis or treatment up until everything got overwhelming in Jan of 2020. And then just as part of it calmed down, the pandemic hit.
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Meanwhile, I count myself lucky because I only really get anxiety. From what I've read, anxiety is often comorbid with depression, and that sounds much harder to deal with.
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Yeah, I also had the various ones of what happens if I fail out, what happens if I don't find the type of job I want, etc.
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Also I love that many zoos these days raise cheetahs with emotional support dogs. Mostly labs.
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Maybe I didn't need contingency plans for how I'd support myself if I got rejected from every single grad school I applied to, given that I applied to over a dozen and was offered fellowships at most of them ... (My contingency was teaching test prep, while volunteering in a lab)
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Fun fact: Cheetahs share a more recent common ancestor with house cats than either do with bobcats or ocelots.
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(Similar names of series, read at roughly the same time, some years back ... a few plot elements could have been transposed, even though yours has blades who used to assassinate the nobility instead of in his where they worked for them)
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Whereas a junior priest using dairy products in their magic is a lactolyte.
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I am fairly confident about most of what I remember, but a) might have forgotten some stuff that felt minor but could come back to be important, and b) there are one or two things I'm not entirely sure whether they happened in your Fallen Blades, or in Dave Duncan's The King's Blades.
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I went for a run along my river trail with fireflies lighting it up as it got dark, and then got in a few (non contentious) conversations here after I got back and laid down on the couch drinking a sports drink.
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The only thing I remember particularly liking from 2e were the Psionics in the Dark Sun setting.
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I should really look into your Patreon after I reread the Blade books (I think the last one I read was 5, so I'd want to start over again to make sure I keep things straight)
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Summer weather making them irritable? Or is that overly optimistic?
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I just made tons of contingency plans, and held myself to ludicrously high standards so I could feel like I'd meet those of other people. And that kind of conscientiousness tends to be rewarded in school/work/etc, so it's hard to recognize exactly when it becomes a problem.
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Mental stuff is hard in part because we use terms that mean one thing in everyday contexts and mean something else in clinical. I've been seeing someone for some anxiety issues which it took me a long time to recognize I had, because I didn't *worry* about things.
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I do think cantrips in DnD solved a lot of problems in the magic system. Prior to them, arcane classes were almost unplayable at low levels, while divine casters like clerics and druids weren't useless without their spells.
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I looked it up, yeah. Science joke because Christopher enjoys referring to me as a damn green-blooded hobgoblin.
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Which does sound interesting. Though I typically gravitate towards casters of some sort. Cleric in DnD; Elementalist in Earthdawn, etc.
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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social duel @bigbadbugsteak.bsky.social 2
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I think the latter only works when it's really evocative. I'd have to look up the exact wording, but one example I remember is Patrick Rothfuss describing a thousand razor-sharp leaves swirling in the wind as a ~10 year old was playing a game trying to dodge through them to touch the tree trunk.
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If you like and subscribe to the labeler, it assigns you a class. You can duel people for gold and experience. Apparently, I'm a Champion? I think Science Officer wasn't an option.
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I *like* being non threatening. I remain deeply confused why some of my students find me intimidating. I am soft spoken, not particularly large, and I don't intrude on personal space.
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Me too. I think it's due to that that I enjoy descriptions more if a) it's setting where things are; b) when something happens (movement, light changes, etc), or c) the description leans in to how the characters are reacting to it (do they find the forest calming, spooky, monotonous, etc).
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Think Michelangelo's statue of David. Definitely not porn, but also quite probably not safe for work. Artistic nudity.
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I kind of wish I was a jewelry sort of guy, cause I like pretty stones, but I think I'd be very self conscious and mildly uncomfortable wearing any.
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Yeah, I think intricate/elaborate ones get more of a pass. I remember in high school one of the local news anchors had this gorgeous statement necklace. It was a string of onyx, with smaller strings of onyx radiating out from the circle at varying lengths. I bet it got a lot of compliments.
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Octopuses *are* cool, that's true. It would be really nifty if it was made from a material that changed color under certain conditions.
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Yep. It goes along with the general category of "only compliment things under someone's control". Same way with someone's selfie, complimenting the lighting or the framing or how happy they look is way less likely to be seen as creepy than complimenting their appearance/body/face.
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Could be. It's just ... if I already know someone, they're more likely to give the benefit of the doubt on phrasing that could be read multiple ways in text. "That's a great color on you" could mean it goes great with your skin tone, or could be snark, so risky with strangers.
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I'd have to look up the specific ones for details, but I remember being fine with the ones that were obviously opinions even if insulting, but annoyed by one that seemed factually incorrect.
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Color is generally safe. So is pattern. Jewelry is also often safe, though less so if it's a pendant necklace. It also often lands differently if you say "That's a great color" vs "That's a great color on you" (to a stranger) (I also probably get a little leeway for being gay instead of het)
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I apparently really pissed someone off one day when I responded to their post about how all tech of the past 15 years has been garbage with a defense of improved solar panels and vaccine development. Not only blocked me, but stuck me on like 4-5 block lists.
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It turns out: low 70s are not great for me to run in when it is so humid that there is fog. Still, managed 5 miles running, even if it was broken up by two walking segments. (3 mi run, 0.5 walk, 1 run, 0.5 walk, 1 run, ~1.5 walk to get back home)
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I also just don't have enemies on this site? Some people I've blocked, some people who've blocked me, but I don't really think about them and I doubt they think about me. The whole don't engage just block ethos here is kind of nice.
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I just come at it from the perspective of being an evolutionary biologist. There was a pretty large lab studying hyenas in my PhD department, so I learned a fair bit about the animals from them.
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Yeah, the one celebrity I ever approached to have a conversation with (knowing who they were; turns out when you're oblivious and live in Los Angeles sometimes there are others) was Jane Gooddall. I was taking a class from one of her former students, and met her in an airport. She was gracious.
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My specialty's evolution, but I also teach fairly broadly across the bio curriculum, which has meant ecology, genetics, animal behavior, molecular bio, biochem, etc. And have presented at conferences ranging from astrobio to artificial life to population genetics.
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Well, then, I'm going to stick a reminder note in my calendar and get in touch with them next time around. Very happy to donate an hour or so of my time for that kind of fundraising.
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