#BS (Data Science)

[subrage]

Truth speaking on the corporate obsession with AI

Hilarious. Something tells me this person's on the hellsite(affectionate)

[trans-non-magical-person]

It's almost like this was just a buzzword that generated millions of dollars for startups and didn't actually do anything unique for actual businesses.

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[best-u-of-feenis-program]

BS in Data Science

(no propaganda submitted)

BS in Environmental Science

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[deepspacedukat]

The Lifeline - Part Two: The Armstrong

To be completely honest, I haven't exactly planned this fic out, so I have no idea how many chapters this will be. It'll be a surprise for everyone, myself included! 😇 And yep, i have a lot of asks and tagged posts to get around to, but I wanted to put this out first. Enjoy!

If you want to be added to or removed from my taglist, please let me know.

Part One is here.

Cross-posted to AO3 here.

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Vreenak (ST:DS9) x Reader

[A/N: Future chapters will contain smut, so 18+ ONLY, MINORS DNI!!!]

Warnings: Spoilers for ST:VOY S1E7 "Eye of the Needle," references to Romulan politics, espionage, stalking, references to an interspecies relationship, pre-Romulan/Human relationship, interspecies romance, threats, angst, time travel bs, references to marriage/a mating bond, skeptical Vreenak, Romulan undercover as a Vulcan, mentions of a previous Vulcan/Human failed relationship.

~*~

After a few months aboard the USS Armstrong, we were finally going to see the Epsilon Pulsar Cluster up close! We took on new crew members at the Epsilon IX Station; four of which were engineers intended to ease the burden of repairs mid-mission, two were specially-qualified science officers, and one was simply a late addition.

It was the latter of the group that fascinated me. With keen, icy blue eyes, sharp facial features, and neatly-groomed hair, the new Vulcan Lieutenant had drawn my attention from the moment he materialized on the transporter pad in his science division blue uniform. The others were escorted to their stations and quarters by the Chief Engineer and the Science officer assigned to the Bridge, and I was assigned to Lieutenant Velek.

Tall and mildly intimidating, the stoic Vulcan stepped down from the transporter pad, and I offered him the traditional Vulcan ta'al in greeting as I introduced myself.

His eyes roamed the length of my body, seemingly sizing me up, but he did return my greeting after a pause. Undoubtedly, I was not who he expected to see when he beamed aboard.

"It is...agreeable to meet you, Lieutenant," he muttered after a moment, and assuming that was about all I was going to get out of him for the moment, I plastered on what I hoped was a welcoming smile.

"If you'll come with me, I'll show you to your quarters." Velek did so without protest. Giving him a short overview of our ship's upcoming mission to update Starfleet's data regarding the pulsar cluster, I tried to be as concise as possible. Though I kept my gaze firmly forward, I couldn't help but feel as though he was observing me.

Keying in the entry code for his quarters, I gave him a quick glance through the layout. Our ship was a little different than the standard science vessel in terms of accommodations. Starfleet meant for us to be a prototype for longer-term science missions into deep space, so there were a few more amenities than were standard.

If his expression was anything to go by - he'd lifted a single eyebrow all of twice - Velek was either impressed or turning his nose up in the most Vulcan way possible.

"If there's anything else you need, please don't hesitate to let me know. My quarters are actually just to the right of yours, so if the comms go down and you need a book or some tea or something, I won't be hard to find," I said clasping my hands behind my back as he turned to face me.

Velek's icy blue eyes gave me an appraising once over.

"Thank you, Lieutenant. I will keep that in mind." Now that we were alone, I was struck by how deep and velvety his voice was.

Fuck. No way. I couldn't do this again. I was just asking to get hurt if I developed feelings for another Vulcan, so I simply wouldn't be interested in this one. Velek was a colleague, nothing more. That was all he'd ever be.

"I'll leave you in peace," I murmured with a polite smile. "Your first duty shift begins at oh-nine-hundred tomorrow morning, so take some time to rest or explore the ship, as you see fit. I'll see you in Science Lab Three."

He gave a polite nod, and I left his quarters. Taking a deep, steadying breath once I was back in the hallway, I forcibly shook my thoughts back into neutral territory. Velek was not for me.

--

Vreenak's first step aboard the Armstrong was to determine the Lieutenant's schedule - a task made easier by the proximity of her quarters to his. Next, he slipped inside and placed a few listening devices. Audio and visual in her living space, and audio-only in her bedroom.

He was careful to disturb nothing during his time in her space, but he couldn't stop himself from glancing through the few books she'd accumulated. A pair of poetry books, a copy of Surak's teachings, three assorted fictional texts, and what appeared to be a romance novel. Tucking the title away in the recesses of his brain for further research, he placed secondary sets of bugs in extremely innocuous places, pausing only when he leaned over the head of her bed.

A soft, sweet scent clung to fabric that Vreenak simply couldn't resist inhaling deep into his lungs. Something primal and dark stirred in his chest, and he just barely managed to suppress a small groan of hunger.

Horror washed over him when he realized what he'd done, and with a scowl, he left as quietly as he'd come. As he sat in his quarters testing the equipment one last time while he had the chance, he scoffed at his own behavior.

Fool of a man. If he didn't control himself, he'd end up with a Human wife whether he wanted one or not. And he most certainly did not.

Especially not one like her. She was too–

Somewhere in the midst of his thoughts, the sound of voices reached Vreenak's ears. She was back, and she had a guest. Accessing his new cameras, he watched as the Lieutenant and a Trill Ensign sat, kicking off their shoes and tucking their legs beneath them as they chatted. Raising the volume slightly, the Vice-Chairman listened in.

"–eyes like that? I mean, if someone like him looked in my direction, I'd be half-way to requesting Vulcan citizenship already," the Trill woman said with a gleeful smile. "Oh, come on. You have eyes in your head! The new guy's hot!"

The Lieutenant merely shrugged her shoulders.

"I mean...yeah, he's good-looking, but I got the feeling he's not easily impressed. He barely said two words to me. And he seems...irritable," she muttered, and her friend nudged her arm playfully.

"So he's just your type, then?" The Lieutenant looked up at her sharply, but the Trill just laughed. "You know I'm right. Every guy you've dated since the Academy has been some variation of a smart, handsome asshole. What makes Velek so different?"

Vreenak blinked. They were talking about him? The silence stretched between the women, and eventually the Ensign sighed, but less from frustration than concern.

"This is about Torek, isn't it?"

That was a new name. One that Vreenak instantly disliked, though he couldn't put his finger on the reason.

"Of course it is. When someone uses you like that, you don't forget it in a hurry," the Lieutenant wilted somewhat.

"I know, but this one's older," Vreenak bristled at that, "I bet he's got at least a modicum of tact when it comes to letting people down gently. And anyone would be more honest than Torek," the Trill said patting her friend's shoulder before moving to the replicator. "Now, I think ice cream is in order."

The rest of the evening's conversation was irrelevant, and once the Ensign headed back to her own quarters, Vreenak stretched and made to walk back to his own bedroom. Humans needed more rest than Romulans, so he fully expected that to be the end of her evening.

To his surprise, he glanced at the monitor once more, but instead of finding her heading toward her bed, he saw that she had curled up with a book - the romance novel he'd found on her shelf earlier.

After a long moment of debate, he switched his view to the camera situated behind her so he could note what page she was on.

How strange for her to be reading a romance, especially if what she'd said to her Trill friend was true. She'd been used by a Vulcan, yet she willingly sought romance? Did that not simply emphasize her loneliness to her? Was she addicted to the pain?

Vreenak's brow furrowed, and he pushed down memories of his own failed romantic endeavors. No, if he was in her position, he could never indulge in something like a romance novel. Elements, he didn't want to even in his current position.

Unfortunately, though, he would need to if he wanted a full understanding of her psychological state. He told himself it was all part of building a profile of the woman who'd claimed to be his wife.

Downloading the novel onto his personal terminal, he let his gaze linger on her for a time. She seemed so small and unassuming when she was all bunched up amongst the cushions.

But, he'd learned decades ago never to underestimate an opponent. The moment you did, that was usually when you got a knife in the back. He would not be such a fool. Not with her.

Thus, he opened the first page of the book file and began to read with a scoff, alternating his attention between her and the text of the drab little story with the childish pink hearts on the cover.

~*~

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[entp-crown]

Soulmate study (HOTD/Fire and Blood Modern AU)

Pairing: Aemond Targaryen x Reader Genre: Crack, Modern AU, Soulmate AU, Academic Chaos Warnings: Cursing, academic violence, chaos goblin narrator, zero romance (yet)

“I’m sorry, what?”

Your friend Marion studied your narrowed eyes, a sly smile plastered on his face.

“What?”

“How the fuck is that ethical? How?”

You threw your hands in the air, every muscle tense with frustration at the blatant academic bullshit.

“The board approved my request,” he shrugged.

“Marion, you want to put people in a room and force them to talk until they fall in love? Are you insane?”

“No. You misunderstood,” he began.

“My study will focus only on people matched by the algorithm, which I personally cranked up to include two personality theories—FFM and MBTI. I did that part for you, by the way. I know you're a sucker for Daddy Jung. It also factors in attachment style, temperament, and even intelligence. Those flagged as matches will participate in the lab study.”

“So... force them to talk until they fall in love,” you said, arms crossing over your chest.

“Participants will only interact for 20 minutes while I record bio and behavioral cues. Hopefully, neuroimaging too—if they let me,” he added with a grin.

“Respectfully, that’s bullshit. Seriously? This gets approved? They denied my fear study!”

“You wanted to put people in a haunted house and have murderers chase them while they solved puzzles to escape.”

“Yes! For science! How else are we supposed to know if adrenaline and fear improve problem-solving?”

Marion turned to your best friend Tina, who was watching you both with a grin, like she’d just witnessed peak cinema.

“Is she serious?”

Tina shrugged. “I know dozens of dark romance readers who’d volunteer for her study.”

“How are you even going to get your sample? No one in their right mind would agree to this,” you pressed.

“Well, the population for my pilot is our university students. The sample includes those flagged as matches—and a randomized group of people who weren’t matched with anyone, as a control.”

“How are you even going to get the sample? You don’t have data on people's personalities, temperament, and all that crap.”

Tina looked up at you, her eyes widening in sudden realization.

“Our student files... they already have that information.”

Your eyes snapped back to Marion, who now grinned like a wolf.

“You son of a... motherfucker!”

Marion ran away before you could get your hands on him. He basically stole the funding from your study—your proposal—and poured it into his stupid soulmate experiment.

“Seriously, we need to get him a girlfriend,” you ranted to Tina.

“Maybe then he’ll stop jerking off to Freud. Fuck me directly if he didn’t get this whole BS idea in a post-nut haze.”

Tina nodded, chuckling, sipping her chai like this was just another Thursday.

Quickly though, Marion’s study slipped your mind. Academic pressure and deadlines kept your social life hostage. You hadn’t seen him in days.

That is, until he slid into the seat next to you.

You were deep into a literature review for your assignment, eyes glazed, soul half-dead, when Marion lowered your laptop screen.

Your eye twitched. Something in your chest combusted.

“Don’t kill me yet,” he grinned.

“It saves progress automatically, you know.”

He set down his own laptop, screen already loaded. You grabbed him by the collar, ready to peel his smug face off with your bare hands.

The smirk on his face was diabolical. Alarms went off in your head.

“Why are you smiling?” you asked flatly.

“Look at my laptop.”

At first, you weren’t sure where to focus—spreadsheet cells, rows and rows of names, scrolled halfway down.

He moved his finger to the 13th row.

Your eyes narrowed.

It was your name.

And next to it, in the adjacent column, it read:

Aemond Targaryen — 97.5% match.

You never heard that name before. Not even in the media. Who the fuck is this Aemond Targaryen who dares to match you?

✦ first part of something unhinged. ✦ yes, it’s crack. yes, it’s science. ✦ marion is an OC and he needs to be punched. ✦ aemond hasn't even shown up yet. buckle up.

[psyshockdeoxys]

i don’t know of a solution to this problem, but let me lay out what’s happening with the young men in the country right now

every single hobby you have is entirely dominated by right wing politics. you like gaming? full of anti-wokeism. you like working out? right-wing fitness influencers who will sell you snake oil supplements and anti-science bs abound. you like sports? infested with right-wingers since the dawn of time. you just like watching youtube videos or instagram reels or tiktoks or podcasts? every algorithim is designed to push you into right-wing rabbitholes because it makes both the platform and the creators a ridiculous amount of money, and every large creator who looks like and caters to folks like you (with the exception of only a few, like hasan and the kavernacle) is a right-wing grifter.

this is happening, yes because many people are majorly profiting from it, but also because you’re part of the demographic with the most societal power. meaning your allyship to the left and the various movements within would be a terrible blow to the status quo and possibly what finally abolishes it for good. this is why the government pours money into call of duty games. this is why the government pours money into the likes of tim pool and joe rogan. the government has been shoving anti-left sentiments down your throat since you were old enough to understand them because otherwise you would be a much more serious threat to it than almost any other group.

when you do actually venture outside of your right-wing bubble (which you’re encouraged by the people you’ve been taught to trust never to do), it’s a 50/50 chance you will see someone like hasan, and maybe you’ll be initially resistant to his ideas but over time become less and less radicalized and farther and farther left, or you’ll see some random internet stranger saying they hate all men or something and decide that the left truly does not want you, and the right is the only option you’ll ever have because they’re the only ones who are nice to you. this doesn’t mean that expressing the “hate all men” sentiment is bad or that it’s your fault men stay in the right- it isn’t- it just means there is a gap in the left-wing content market for young men. thankfully that’s shrinking now, you can find a good number of left-wing CCs who are themselves young white men, but the algorithims that promote right-wingers punish left-wingers for not grifting hard enough, so when you see their content it’s probably only because someone sends it to you directly or it’s mentioned by one of your right-wing figureheads who’s dunking on them.

it seems like the solution would be to put more leftist content out there that appeals to young men, but that doesn’t change the fact that the government has put millions into shaping their media for a long time to keep them in line with what it wants. if you actually look at polling data, young men are less right-wing than their fathers & men over 50, but there’s only so far they can go when society (their media, their lack of irl community meaning they’re reliant more and more on social media, their longest-standing cultures like sports culture being right-wing for several decades, their growing dissatisfaction with the state of the world being twisted to make them blame minority groups & women) is designed to make them this way.

[oxycontin-captain]

EMPLOYEE DATA BASE (CURLY HISTORY)

2062, Age 0:

Curly, Grant born. Family: Mother, father, and elder brothers Garrett (age 4) and James (age 10). Socioeconomic Status: Middle class.

2069, Age 7

Event: Centennial of the Moon Landing celebrated on Earth. Family relocates to Mars. Noted Development: Initial documented interest in space.

2071-2072, Age 9-10

Family Event: Birth of sister Grayce Curly on Mars. Movement: Return to Earth with family. Notable Interaction: Captain allows Grant access to cockpit; basic piloting skills introduced during year-long transit.

2074, Age 12

Family Event: Brother James Curly weds Mark Thilman. Social Development: First meeting with James “Jimmy” Zimmer (age range: peer); close friendship formation noted.

2078, Age 16

Academic Milestone: Completion of secondary education. Relocation: Moves to United States; proximity to NASA cited as primary motive. Social Note: Jimmy Zimmer relocates concurrently.

2080, Age 20

Academic Milestone: Earns Associate of Science (AS) degree.

2081, Age 21

Social Note: 21st birthday celebrated by Jimmy Zimmer and friends with improvised, structurally unsound cake (composition: chocolate, caramel, protein powder). Positive reception despite substandard culinary result.

2082, Age 22

Academic Milestone: Earns Bachelor of Science (BS) degree.

2084, Age 24

Academic Milestone: Master’s degree (field: STEM) completed. Application: NASA Astronaut Corps. Denied due to sub-threshold In-Command piloting hours (Requirement: 1000 hours).

2085-2086, Age 25-26

Career Development: Joins Pony Express as co-pilot on freight vessel Grypus, motivated by piloting hours acquisition. Begins identifying professionally as “Curly.”

2086-2087, Age 26-27

Mission Record: Second freight mission aboard Grypus; routine. Polle terrifies him.

2087-2089, Age 27-29

Mission Record: Extended freight mission; crew experienced significant musculoskeletal degradation, with Curly maintaining health due to rigorous exercise regimen. Avoidance of legal liability for Pony Express attributed to Curly’s preventative measures—this causes Pony Express to favor him.

2091-2092, Age 30-31

Career Development: Reassigned as co-pilot to freight vessel Tulpar. Met mechanic Swansea; friendship recorded.

2092-2093, Age 31-32

Mission Record: Final assignment with Pony Express prior to intended NASA reapplication.

2094, Age 33

Employment Offer: Captaincy of Pony Express offered; declined initially. Reconsidered following conversation with Jimmy Zimmer regarding career aspirations, and possible career failures. Position accepted.

2095, Age 34

Mission Record: First command as Captain; short-range freight mission completed.

2096, Age 35

Crew Incident: Co-pilot of Tulpar reported deceased (suicide). Curly successfully persuaded Jimmy Zimmer to join as new co-pilot.

2097-2098, Age 36-38

Financial Note: Reduction in wages for all personnel. Crew Addition: New member Anya joins.

2098, Age 38

Mission Record: Minor freight mission. Informal reports suggest mechanic Swansea’s intent to retire.

2099–, Age 39

Crew Addition: Daisuke joins crew of Tulpar as intern, anticipated to replace Swansea if retirement proceeds. Crew departs.

[marta-bee]

News of the Day 5/9/25: Funding for Scientific Research

Paywall free.

I've got a budding research scientist in my life. She was born here, grew up here, did her BS here but is doing grad school in Europe, and there's a lot of reasons for that but the possibility of doing science research in America certainly made the decision easier. She's a special kid, and I promise you, we're worse for not having her manning the pipettes around here.

If empathy isn't enough, funding general science research is a ridiculously good long-term investment. The NPR piece goes into specifics on the economy piece, but it's pretty intuitive. Think about the business growth and just the general quality of life payoff that came from some electrical engineers piddling around to make TCP/IP work. (That's the data-transfer protocol that essentially led to the development of the modern internet.)

Hug a scientist, budding or otherwise, if you've got one in your life. They're going through it. Check in with your state's flagship research university and see what they're doing to fight back. And do call your Congressmen. Power of the purse is a legislative thing, or used to be.

This song seems appropriate, somehow. It's never a bad day for Michael Longcor.

More News on University Science Funding Cuts

A specific example: how funding cuts are impacting researchers and grad students at the University of Washington. (X)

How China benefits from US cuts. (X)

Columbia U. fired 180 staffers in response to Trump defunding research projects. (X)

Cuts at Cornell will impact Air Force and military safety. (X)

Trump's focus on deporting foreign students may also drive away top research talent.

And Science Research More Generally

Trump is planning to cut HHS discretionary spending by another 26%. (X)

Trump's proposed 2026 budget also includes massive cuts to science research. (X)

NASA's budget in particular ‘Would Decimate American Leadership in Space’ (X)

More than a dozen states sued Trump admin over ‘dismantling’ of federal health agencies (X)

Federal researchers studying black lung and other similar workplace hazards were recently fired. Some were rehired temporarily, though they expect to be fired again next month. (X)

Jacob Soboroff discusses how the cuts impact coal miners:

A second program focusing on toxin exposure for 9/11 responders was also hit hard. (X)

RFK plans to use Medicaid and Medicare data to study the causes of autism (X), raising massive privacy concerns. In response, IL Gov. Pritzker signed a state-level executive order protecting autistic people's medical information.

"'I am horrified': Why autistic people say RFK Jr.'s comments on autism are so dangerous" (X)

The measles epidemic is still a thing. (X) RFK instructed the CDC to issue new treatment guidelines based on his unfounded claims (X) and pushed misinformation that MMR vaccines contain "aborted foetus debris".

[alpaca-clouds]

The more I read into it, the more frustrated I am with the research area of psychology.

I do believe that psychotherapy can help people a great deal - it has helped me - but I do think that way too much psychological research is not being done under scientifically neutral conditions, and has a tendency to also be just hella weird.

Case and point: evolutionary psychology, the fake believe that humans are naturally monogamous animals and hence have certain universal mating patterns, something that has about as much scientific merrit as race science (and is closely related to it, where we are already on it), and yet is something you can study at university and can get a degree in.

I am taking a super, duper interesting course in psychology this year (spatial cognition). I love it. It is interesting. But reading through many of the studies I get headaches. Because guess who was polled/tested for it? Guess!

If you guessed: young, mostly white people between 18 and 25 who were currently student at whatever university the psychologist researching was working at, you guessed right. And them being at university obviously also means they are more likely to be from a certain socio-economic background. Meaning: the research set is heavily biased.

Do most psychologists doing those studies however recognize this fact? Do they write a conclusion going "in our data set it has been observed [xy], but we also have to consider that our data is heavily biased"? No. Obviously not.

Some of them do. Yeah, but most don't. Most will just go: "Well, I did a test with 30 university students, let me now extrapolate from this limited data set to ALL OF HUMANITY!!!"

And mind you, the stuff I am reading for this class - due to us getting to choose the papers - is already way less biased due to the area I focus on (how does language influence cognition?), which necessitates more mixed data sets.

But I also have read so many psychology studies that go into other areas, notably ones that can do more harm.

For the most part, spatial cognition will mostly influence stuff like how navigation stuff is phrased, and how we design virtual environments. So, it makes this less accessible to non-western people, and tendencially non-English-natives. But generally I would argue, it is limited in harm.

But when I am looking at other areas of psychological research...

I will once more note that the Stockholm Syndrome is bullshit that someone just made up, never proved scientifically, and that people just believed and then designed studies based on the assumption that it was real.

Or the other fun thing: you know how IQ tests are utter bullshit, that highly favor a very tiny fragment of what actually makes intelligence and are also designed in a way that they are more easily done by people from "western culture"? Yeah. You do not want to know how many studies are based around IQ. (Heck, by now it is so widely known that it is BS, that I found JOKES about it in study books. One study book had this joking page on "misconceptions about psychology", which included the bullet point: "Definition of intelligence: whatever is measured with IQ, I guess." And yet people use it to this day.)

HECK, I have seen SEVERAL STUDIES designed under the assumption that Meyers-Briggs was real. Something that has about as much scientific merrit as basing your study around what someone's horoscope said at that particular day!

Other areas of science are not perfect. No. But it boggles my mind, that how much BS is happening in psychology, and also how often neurology is nowhere to be seen at any step of the way. As if psychology was happening somewhere outside of the brain.

And I also have seen so many studies that also had a very biased selection of participants. (Heck, our professor called one of those out in lecture. Basically, some prior research had shown that a specific spatial cognition ability was more developed in people who played a lot of videogames. So the researcher just looked for gamers to proof that actually people were really good at this thing.)

I get research is expensive. I get that it is hard to get participants that are not students. But this is actually doing harm!

[stemisart]

So a lil updated bio:

I have a bs in physics

I was working as a lab tech for a couple years

I'm currently working as a teaching aide because the schedule is a lot more friendly to going back to school

In two months I'm starting my ms in data science

When I was 18 and asked what I wanted to do as a career, I'd say I wanted to study the universe. I believe a dsa degree coupled with my background in physics will help me get closer to this goal.

[poison-rot]

📢 Invitation to Participate in a Research Study 📢

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Additionally, this research aims to contribute to a comprehensive and inclusive approach to sexual health education and HIV awareness. By understanding the psychological factors that shape sexual behaviors, we can help develop supportive interventions that promote both mental and sexual well-being.

We are inviting sexually active men who have sex with men (MSM), aged 18 to 40, whether single or partnered, and regardless of sexual orientation, to participate in this confidential and anonymous online survey. Your insights are valuable in shaping research that prioritizes inclusive, stigma-free mental and sexual health care.

📌 Study Details:

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Phone Number: 0976 003 8581

Student Email: ccigsy@mymail.mapua.edu.ph

Thank you for your time and support in this important study.

[lboogie1906]

Dr. Herman Branson (August 14, 1914 - June 7, 1995) was a pioneer in biophysics. Born in Pocahontas, Virginia, not much is known about his early life. He attended Virginia College and received a BS. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati where he received a Ph.D. and started a career in academia.

He served as Assistant Professor of Physics and Chemistry at Howard University. He served as the Director of the Experimental Science and Mathematics Technology Program in Physics. He became a tenured professor of Physics and was named Chairman of the Physics Department at Howard University.

He entered into a partnership with Linus Pauling at the California Institute of Technology. He focused on the structure of proteins. His process used mathematics to determine possible helical structures that would fit the x-ray data, as well as chemical restrictions that had been outlined by Pauling. He narrowed down the possible structures of two helices. The two coils were named Alpha and Gamma. Linus Pauling initially dismissed his work, saying that the shape of his coil was impossible. Pauling published the data in his name, giving him minor credit for his original research. In the initial press release from Caltech University, announcing the discovery of the Alpha Helix, his name is excluded. When Linus Pauling received a Nobel Prize for his contribution to Chemistry, he was not credited for his contribution.

He returned to Howard University as a full professor of Physics and Chairman of the Physics Department. He served as the President of Central State University. He assumed the position of President at Lincoln University of Pennsylvania. He continued to research and published more than one hundred articles in his lifetime.

He became one of the founders of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. He led a group of educators to the White House to speak to President Richard Nixon about the growing disparity in financing for higher education.

He spent the remainder of his life in Silver Spring, Maryland, surrounded by his wife, children, and grandchildren. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphaphialpha

[musicismymoirail]

Back to the Project With No Name (I keep calling it The Day Death Walks, but that’s the cult and I’m not fond of that enough yet to call it a title).

I went quickly from ‘vague town ideas is good enough, no heavy research required’ to downloading old maps from 1890~1910s and cross-referencing population data for the different towns because it fun. I am a nerd at heart, and references never hurt in the long run. The town, affectionately called Daisy Creek for the time being, is still mostly made-up but it’s starting to feel a bit more lived in which is nice! 🥰

I also started plotting out the super-cell storms from that fateful day, because nerd. Like yeah, it’s a story and is mostly made-up and has some supernatural bs in it too. But there’s also science! ✨ lol, I can just see Seneca holding his news articles and photographs like ‘would you want to know more about the Dog Days Outbreak~?’

He refuses to called it the Day Death Walked like the cult does, lol. It was a bit of a strange tornado, but only a bit, and there were a lot more than one.

Honestly, Seneca continues to be just lovely. He’s the sensible one in the group, and is just happy to have someone who listens to his know-how. He is also absolutely judgmental of the local priest, Fergus. Fergus is very try-hard who tries (key word) to do good, so I’m not shocked that Seneca is ruffled by him. Fergus isn’t quite fake, but he’s also not 100% honest either.

Fergus is also maybe plotting to do a murder against the Beloved (MC) and Seneca is like ‘please stop that. :’l I’m enjoying the new local and the fact they enjoy hearing me talk about the weather (and/or that traumatic day in their life they have no memories about, but mostly I’m keeping it to weather-based chats).’

Fergus’ motivations for the murder plot are …solid from his perspective and his general attitude, but everyone else is like ‘doubt’.

(…except maybe Glee, at least if they and the Beloved aren’t former friends. Then, they would be 100% in Fergus’ corner like ‘wait! Let the man speak. He may have a point.’

And Fergus speaks and Glee is like ‘motherfucker you wasted this golden opportunity’ because Fergus really has no ground to stand on with his murder plot.)

Also! Someone new joined the cast. To what degree, I have no idea. I was slapped with the idea of a happy upbeat idiot of a horse thief, and fell in love instantly. She’s very much golden lab vibes and brings a much needed visual enthusiasm to the cast. The town considers her mostly harmless to an absolute menace, but she can be very off-puttingly charming so she never really sees much consequences.

I was thinking of Shrike for a name, because idk. I could see her momma being like ‘the bird is cute and I admire how it impales its prey on sticks. So resourceful, great name for my daughter~’. Though I’d have a Seneca and a Shrike??? 🤔 They don’t sound that much alike, at least??? I am very fond of the name Shrike already.

I have been making the cast based on connections to plot and the like. So like, the Beloved has the cult. Seneca has tornadoes. Glee has the Beloved as a person, not as the Chosen One their mother props up to the Cult. Fergus has {redacted}. Shrike tho?? Mhm. It could be the town itself, though I was hoping the vague floating concept of the hotel owner/staff would fill that spot? Maybe I could have Shrike take her role a bit?? Shrike getting away with her horseplay shenanigans because she’s related the law??? Maybe?? 🤔

Or, maybe she's the one that caused Beloved's mother to come back to home with the Cult?? That, I do like. We’ll see. I do like her personality-wise a lot already, so I'm sure she’ll find her way into the plot like the others have. c:

EDIT: It should be fossils, oh my god!!! TToTT!!! Shrike finds some old miocene fossil in the outskirts of town, and is so so proud! 'Look at all these academics I brought to town with my giant lizard~ They're gonna name it after me, Shrikeasaurus Rex.'

She'd so disappoint to learn it isn't one of those cool dinosaurs people like to talk about. I'm 50/50 if she'd perk up learning it was an ancient horse-thing though. I guess Shrike is tied into {redacted} now, but from a different angle then Fergus. Nice. >:)!

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Covid and 9/11 made people further suspect they’re being lied to about childhood injections (Updated 10/16/24)

James Hill, MD

Oct 15, 2024

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An October 2024 Substack article entitled Here are The True Intentions Behind Vaccinations! posits reasons vaccines are strongly coerced and mandated in developed nations without full informed consent, placebo-controlled safety testing, or manufacturer liability.

Get vaccinated!

James Hill, MD

November 3, 2022

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These reasons might relate to the absurd demand you obtain a religious exemption to avoid potentially deadly shots.

How exemptions to injection mandates train you to submit to deadly religious laws

James Hill, MD

May 4

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I’m reposting the article below with added commentary.Disclaimer: As an American physician, I’m supposed to tell people to follow the CDC’s vaccine recommendatons. The article’s reposting below is for public consideration and repudiation where appropriate and does not imply endorsement or agreement with its content.

Here is the article:

Using logic, evidence, and facts, one can reasonably argue that the true intents of vaccinations are: 1. To create chronic health conditions - such as diabetes, food allergies, asthma, thyroid issues, intestinal disease, etc., all of which have skyrocketed in recent years - thereby ensuring customers for life for Big Pharma. All vaccine package inserts state that their products are capable of causing a wide range of chronic health conditions, and, if you were born after 1990 - the year the vaccine schedule dramatically increased - your chances of having a chronic health condition are 54%. This generation of intensively vaccinated children is the most chronically ill in history and is not expected to outlive their parents.

Please post any arguments against this in the comments below.

Although a strong correlation between vaccinations and chronic diseases does not necessarily indicate a causal relationship, do any studies with transparent data permit us to dismiss vaccines as a contributing cause of these conditions?

Unjabbed children are healthier: studies

Credit: James Lyons-Weiler PhD and Paul Thomas MD

Here are six studies suggesting unvaccinated children are significantly healthier than vaccinated ones:

Ewing GE. What is regressive autism and why does it occur? Is it the consequence of multi-systemic dysfunction affecting the elimination of heavy metals and the ability to regulate neural temperature? N Am J Med Sci. 2009 Jul;1(2):28-47.“Sudden Infant Death Syndrome has been largely eradicated following withdrawal of pertussis vaccine in Sweden and Japan.”

Mawson AR, Ray BD, Bhuiyan AR, Jacob B (2017). Pilot comparative study on the health of vaccinated and unvaccinated 6- to 12-year old U.S. children. Journal of Translational Science, 3(3).“While vaccination remained significantly associated with NDD [neurodevelopmental disorders] after controlling for other factors, preterm birth coupled with vaccination was associated with an apparent synergistic increase in the odds of NDD.”

Hooker BS, Miller NZ. Analysis of health outcomes in vaccinated and unvaccinated children: Developmental delays, asthma, ear infections and gastrointestinal disorders. SAGE Open Med. 2020 May 27;8:2050312120925344.“In this study, which only allowed for the calculation of unadjusted observational associations, higher ORs [odds ratios] were observed within the vaccinated versus unvaccinated group for developmental delays, asthma and ear infections. Further study is necessary to understand the full spectrum of health effects associated with childhood vaccination.”

Goldman GS, Miller NZ (2023) Reaffirming a Positive Correlation Between Number of Vaccine Doses and Infant Mortality Rates: A Response to Critics. Cureus 15(2): e34566.“A positive correlation between the number of vaccine doses and IMRs [infant mortality rates] is detectable in the most highly developed nations but attenuated in the background noise of nations with heterogeneous socioeconomic variables that contribute to high rates of infant mortality, such as malnutrition, poverty, and substandard health care.”

Correction: Lyons-Weiler J, Thomas P. Relative Incidence of Office Visits and Cumulative Rates of Billed Diagnoses along the Axis of Vaccination. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 8674 (article corrected, then retracted)“The data indicate that unvaccinated children in the practice are not unhealthier than the vaccinated and indeed the overall results may indicate that the unvaccinated pediatric patients in this practice are healthier overall than the vaccinated.“

Geier, et al. A two-phase study evaluating the relationship between Thimerosal-containing vaccine administration and the risk for an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis in the United States. Translational Neurodegeneration 2013, 2:25.“[T]he present study provides new epidemiological evidence supporting an association between increasing organic-Hg [mercury] exposure from Thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines and the subsequent risk of an ASD diagnosis.“

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Thank you so much for your post on project 2025. It is something to keep an eye out for, but it is not federal law and would likely take MULTIPLE bills to even come close to total fruition. I feel like people don't realize that and your post does such a good job of putting it into perspective. Thank you. And we should write more smut to spite the people who wrote it lmao /j

Lmao this is from like a month ago but I forget to check my asks I’m sorry 😳

I hope that at the very least my post gets ppl asking questions and looking where info comes from. Seeing the ease with which misinformation and disinformation is spread on any platform is disturbing, (like that bs study on how black plastic in spatulas is gonna kill us all that went viral a few weeks back and is total garbage).

N I’m not gonna b the asshole who’s like “omg media literacy is dead” because I don’t think it is, I just think it’s a lot harder to be literate in todays media environment. It’s actively discouraged on certain sites (cough cough twitter cough)!!

I could go on many rants on this subject, but I would encourage yall who are able to check out the book calling bullshit: the art of skepticism in a data-driven world and its associated website because while not perfect, it helps debunk some common “black boxes” of data science and shit in an understandable way (I have dyscalculia so this is high praise coming from me lol)

And while I’m monologuing; donate to Wikipedia!! It’s such a resource and is so good for getting a decent footing in a subject. The references linked at the bottom of articles are a treasure trove of info. Having it as a (semi) accessible resource is a huge deal!!

Ok spiel over, thanks for listening, I’m so glad you found my post valuable, and WRITE ALL THE SMUT IN THE WORLD BB LET EVERYBODY F*CK *

*while respectfully allowing my asexual homies to chill n watch bill n ted’s excellent adventure