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Dr. Alissa, Turbo-Nerd
@drliss@toot.lgbt
mastodon 4.6.8Clinical child psychologist with an expertise in suicidality in adolescence and a research focus on under-served communities.
FLOSS evangelist.
Lesbian. Trans rights. Anti-racism.
Owner of cats.
One day I will go to space so help me.
She/her, English/français
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Joined September 22, 2023
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@caroline@chaosfem.tw that's a kid with a future in industrial engineering.
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social Not enough decisions in my life have been motivated by the question "how can I spend more time around baby goats?" I need to get on that.
Truly is there any feeling better than being hungry and realizing you have cinnamon rolls in the fridge?
My amazing wife has completed her #Pokopia Pokedex! She's a Pokemon Master!
Some musings on AI:
I'm not a professional SE. I code in the service of solving specific scientific problems or other problems I personally have. But when I fix a bug, or overcome a limitation, all on my own....that feeling is unmatched. Why would I ever use a tool that takes away that sense of accomplishment? I don't want AI to solve my problems. I want to overcome challenges on my own, to build competence on my own, to discover on my own. AI just cheapens things.
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@maxleibman I would guess similarly, with an emphasis on non-falsifiable-ness. It's whatever definition is convenient for selling more NVIDIA GPUs.
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@TheBreadmonkey I am forced to hope that the lens being used is making that course look more narrow than it actually is.
I offer my cat fresh salmon and she turns up her nose like I am trying to poison her. What a bizarre and picky cat.
I think it is criminal that my phone spell check doesn't recognize "chucklefuck".
The #Philadelphia #Flyers are one of only four teams in #NHL history to ever dig ourselves out of a 0-3 playoff hole. I have faith that we're going to do it again. Let's go Flyers!
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@dbattistella@mstdn.ca @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social ahhhh back when the internet was a good place.
Evidently it is #lesbianvisibilityweek ....PERCEIVE ME!
Thinking back to high school when writing papers was the bane of my existence, even into college, and now professionally I produce something like at least 75 pages of written material every week. Oh how the turntables.....
Sitting here like "there's nothing good to watch while I work" meanwhile there's an entire new episode of Dimension 20: City Council of Darkness just sitting there waiting for me! Oh what a fool I've been!
Ladies and gentlemen, we've got a live one. This is an area of particular expertise for me, as it's what I spent my postdoc on. The way we treat youth, particularly Black and Brown youth, in the school system, at the very best possible interpretation Does Not Help. We are teaching Black and Brown kids that adults do not give a shit about them, and it is contributing to a truly staggering suicide rate. Hats off to these researchers doing this study in Trump's America.
https://assets-eu.researchsquare.com/files/rs-9370524/v1/f6fc418d-5856-462c-9799-b798939f6dc6.pdf?c=1777077922
This paper is right up there with the "how to give a mouse PTSD" talk I went to once. This time, it's "we took eight healthy people and subjected them to so much stress that their blood proceeded to spontaneously clot" (#hyperbole). Read and enjoy.
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1113/JP290576
This paper frustrates me. Nothing against the researchers, but if you can find no consistent patterns, the conclusion shouldn't be "the effects are heterogeneous". The conclusion should be "we couldn't find any pattern / effect". Negative results are still significant! It's important to know that Chiari Malformations don't present with a cogent neuropsychological syndrome! Just fucking say that!
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-60062-001
There is nothing I find more annoying, less likely to improve my perception of a brand, and less likely to make me purchase services from a brand, than those goddamn liberty mutual commercials.
RE: https://beige.party/@AaronDavid/116897553067447248
You know what else no one used to ask? Whether the paint on your walls, or your water pipes, had lead. Whether that mercury thermometer needed to be disposed of properly when it broke. We know better now, so we ask more now. This boomer nostalgia bait bullshit is so misguided.
It's 109F outside and my central air is doing it's best but it was not made for this. As @WEATHERISHAPPENING@weatherishappening.network , our weather lords are drunk on carbon and we need to repent.
I'm here to kick ass and drink lemonade and buddy, I am all out of ass.
I have a whole entire doctorate and yet nothing makes me feel stupider than looking at NYT Connections.
2 hours until some more playoff hockey! Is it enough the Flyers eliminated bitter rivals the Penguins!? I say NO! The Boston Fleet need to wipe the map! LET'S GET READY FOR SOME HOCKEY!
"Can you feel joy even while feeling deep sadness?" The question posed in my church's sermon this morning in the explicit context of the 4th of July. Yes, our reverend answers.
The #Phillies are winning and I'm snuggling with my velcro cat. It is a good night.
Once I was a C/C++ girlie, but now I'm all about that Rust and Go. The only constant is change.
Nothing hurts my feelings more than my cat deciding she actually doesn't want to be in the same room as me when I'm working from home.
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@lzg@mastodon.social I aspire to be whatever kind of cat lies on a comfortable bed napping all day without moving.
I need to find a way to break my reddit addiction. The more time I spend on there the worse I feel.
I'm trying to listen to this hockey game but there is a cat on my head and all I can hear is her purring, reverberating down my headphones.
Truly, is there any better feeling than when a cat who normally hates being touched decides to seek you out and demand pets?
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So naturally I'm calming myself down with linear algebra.
My hot take is that OO is the best and most powerful programming paradigm.
Huge thermos full of delicious coffee? ✅
Blank word document, open to all the possibilities I could ever write? ✅
Motivation to write? ❌
Cat behavior/communication experts: how do I explain or communicate to my cat that just because I adjusted my position a little bit doesn't mean the cuddle has to be over?! #urgent
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@annathepiper@mastodon.murkworks.net omg, I remember that episode of MST3K! They made it into a game!?
Why, oh, why do they wait to do the landscaping outside my window until I'm in a meeting? It's honestly homophobic.