Alan Grossfield

@agrossfield.bsky.social

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Expert in biomolecular simulation and biophysics.

http://membrane.urmc.rochester.edu/

http://grossfieldlab.github.io/loos/

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Petra Mohr

I know there are folks who argue it publicly as if they mean it. What’s going on in their heads, I (to my great relief) don’t know.

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Memento Morty 🌙

There’s also the whole insanity that girls get pleasure and/or lose their virginity by inserting tampons (though I suppose you could get around that by just supplying pads)

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tom4okstate.bsky.social

I read that the plan said to put them in boys bathrooms if there were any people using it who might need them. No idea if that’s correct, though it would make sense, and no idea how often it was put into practice.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️

Our issue is that we’re at a med school, which means policy tends to get created with clinical use in mind. Luckily, while they insist on setting our machines up, we are allowed admin privileges.

That is *awesome*

Going with someone who can read that menu and suggest good things is a real pleasure

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Louis Redux

I think the strategy is just to throw out so many stupid outrages that what sticks is just a vague “he’s not trustworthy, I don’t remember why”.

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WobblyCPA

That’s a great book. She wrote a related book about explaining death (specifically the death of a child) to kids that was very helpful but painful to read.

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Maq

I’m surprised no one has said Game of Thrones, though the animations behind it are a major part of the pleasure.

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Courtney Milan

I don’t get the “proving how tough I am by tolerating food I don’t enjoy” logic. Even if I *can*, why should I if there’s no reason to?

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Andrew Paul

Relevant: this essay from 1941 making the rounds today, especially these last paragraphs. harpers.org/archive/1941...

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Secretary of Balloon Doggies

I bet 90% of us said that in our heads, if not out loud.

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Mike Nitabach

Very possible. Moreover, it’ll dramatically increase the contrast in style between starters and relievers, since the latter will still do max effort. It could also change hitting strategy — extending at bats could be a negative, since it would allow the starter to leave sooner.

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Before that, he wrote the book Homicide: Life on the Street, which was used as the basis for the show Homicide.

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Celeste Ng

Me too — I loved them when I read them, and mostly missed the sexism. My concern is that absorbing sexist framing without noticing it is arguably worse.

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RI Smith

Or live married to him.

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Memento Morty 🌙

Better to apologize promptly when it’s not necessary than not apologize (or apologize slowly, when it can feel like a non-apology) when it’s appropriate

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Captain Hurley

Possible, but I don’t think so, since part of the checklist was whether you have the expertise to check it.

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Ruth Nineke

Probably “subject matter experts”

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Matthew R Francis

Probably something about the biggest explosions…

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Alyssa Harad

Maybe “A brief history of time” by Stephen Hawking? Traces the development of cosmology. Very engaging and understandable.

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Celeste Ng

I agree, although Feynman as a person is somewhat problematic. It comes through in the somewhat sexist tone of some of the stories. The second book, “What do you care what other people think” is a bit less sexist, as a i recall, but it’s mostly focused on the Challenger investigation

If he likes either of those books, he might enjoy Genius, which is a biography of Feynman by James Gleick.

I remember Gleick’s book on chaos as excellent, though it’s been a couple of decades since I read it.

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Kevin M. Kruse

Congratulations, you broke the two laws of project scheduling: 1. It takes longer than you think it should 2. After carefully considering rule #1, it *STILL* takes longer than you think it should.

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Matthew R Francis

I don’t think I would hate the spam so much if it weren’t for the fact that it treats me like an idiot. Literally every day there’s an “urgent deadline” they have to meet.

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Amy Hoy

Reminds me of a line about academia: the fights are so bitter because the stakes are so small.