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manisha

@manisha@neuromatch.social

I question academic, scientific, and cultural norms, and who they serve.

sculpting cooperative communities of practice and democratizing science @ https://echonetwork.in #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 2 followers lol

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manisha, to random
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In other news from India, after a week of ~45°C temp, which felt more like ~50°C due to the humidity, we finally had some light showers today!

manisha,
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@elduvelle yeah the heatwaves are getting worse each year 😭

manisha, to random
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Am sleepy but also want to know the election results!

https://results.eci.gov.in/PcResultGenJune2024/index.htm

eliezyer, to random
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I'm going to be honest and say that writing papers isn't my favorite activity, I'd rather be doing another experiment or analyzing data. Does anyone want to share their thoughts on how you make this activity more enjoyable? I'd appreciate it :brain_loading:

manisha,
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@eliezyer same here! I enjoy non-academic writing because I can just let my thoughts flow. What breaks that train of thought for academic writing is having to insert references at appropriate locations. What I've found helpful is to keep most of the bibliography in a reference manager ready beforehand (i.e. keep collecting refs while the project is ongoing).

The following process is not necessarily enjoyable but this method of breaking the article down to smaller more manageable sections and tackling them in this order has been helpful for me:

  • I find it easier to keep detailed documentation of all the methods I use throughout the project. Edit that and bam, the Methods section is done!
  • my brain loves to hyperfocus on the title -- probably because it's a one-liner that usually highlights the key finding of the study. If I don't know this key finding, my brain simply refuses to focus on writing! The title also helps anchor how I write the introduction to the problem being addressed.
  • ime, most of the work for writing a paper is done once I've prepared the figures and ordered them. Writing figure legends and Results becomes straightforward then as I'm mostly describing what can be seen/inferred from the figures.
  • While I'm writing the results (and during the project), I make a note of assumptions and limitations, what we could've done better, what's missing, etc. That becomes the Future Directions/Discussion section.
  • I tend to write the abstract at the very end. I do enjoy writing this summary because most of the "heavy" work is done before reaching this stage 🙃
manisha, to academicchatter
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Interviewing PhD candidates for the first time and the role reversal feels... weird! All the candidates bring something different to the table and it's such a tough call to decide who makes the cut.

@academicchatter

#AcademicChatter

manisha, to til
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#TIL that elephants purr!

"Stand near an elephant herd, and you may feel a strange vibration in your chest. That’s not your heart beating in terror because you’re, well, standing next to an elephant herd. Or at least that’s not all it is. It’s also a sign that the elephants are talking to one another. Elephants are famous for their trumpeting, of course, but they also produce rumbles pitched so low that humans can’t hear them, only feel them as a sort of physical buzzing. Exactly how elephants do this has been a mystery — and while solving that mystery is not of first-order importance in understanding and preserving this largest of land animals, it would add new insight into how a whole range of species vocalize."

The Mystery of the Purring Elephant

ai6yr, (edited ) to gardening
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25 feet tall! Agave appears to be preparing to bloom. I wonder if I could turn this into a radio antenna. #agave #gardening #monster

manisha,
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@ai6yr there's a section of it that to me looks like an eye and a mouth 😄​ is this the tequila kind or the mezcal kind?

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