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kofanchen

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Working with #Drosophila to understand #sleep and #circadian rhythm. Lecturer in #Neurogenetics at University of Leicester
#Han #Taiwanese. #parent. Some history and politics too.
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kofanchen, to Taiwan
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#Taiwan presidential transfer. Time to say goodbye

kofanchen, to uk
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Just to say I have not get any invitation whatsoever..I am actually one of these super scared ILR holder

"Fears of new Windrush as thousands of UK immigrants face ‘cliff edge’ visa change"
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/18/digital-visa-switch-uk-immigrants-december-deadline

kofanchen, to random
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This is the first week we feel a sense of summer and it reminds me this brilliant Pop song by "Five hundred", there is nothing quite like this. It applied very elegant literacy to describe a sense of wandering manhood in youth https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EQI8oKA6X4o
Note: the included lyrics are trying it's best to transcribe Hokkien

albertcardona, to Trains
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In Europe, flying is cheaper than taking the train.

It's an embarrassment, and a major problem: we have to stop flying for silly short distances. Realise that the overheads of flying (reaching the airport, awaiting 2 hours, the flight, the unloading, reaching the destination) largely cancel out any time gains of flying. And the carbon costs are utterly untenable. Not to speak of the modern, dire conditions of the whole flying "experience".

Another embarrassment is that train connections can't be guaranteed when across countries or companies. They aren't even coordinated. As if those who commission and set the schedules didn't travel by train themselves, at least not internationally. In considering how tiny most European countries are, it's frankly bizarre.

There are so many destinations one could travel by train to, yet in practice, it's not sensible. A disgrace.

The upside is that it can be fixed.

#trains #EuroRail

kofanchen,
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@albertcardona
🤞 my student's journey next month to Rotterdam is smooth

kofanchen, to random
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Lovely day trip to #Sussex coast

A man and child waking along the beach with wave washing against them

skinnylatte, to food
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Starting a thread on the different types of tofu and how to cook them. (Some of these are vegan, some are not. In Chinese cooking, tofu is not a vegan protein):

  1. Egg tofu

This is one of my fave tofus. It isn't vegan. It's made with soy beans AND eggs. It has a eggy taste that egg lovers will love; but that goes way entirely when it's panfried lightly.

And this is the egg tofu dish I always order at restaurants (and now make at home) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uthY_SuR_7w&pp=ygUec3BpY2VzIG4gcGFucyBzaXpsaW5nIGVnZyB0b2Z1

a photo of egg tofu, sliced

kofanchen,
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@skinnylatte slight side track here, I am wondering what is your take on this Fermented Bean Curd
https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%85%90%E4%B9%B3
Huaren communities have a love hate relationship with it, I personally love it...almost like cheese

kofanchen, to random
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Thoughts and feelings about exam and finale, discussion initiated by @neuralreckoning

https://neuromatch.social/@neuralreckoning/112334413549459114

neuralreckoning, to academia
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So oral exam at end of PhD. Good idea or just a tradition that doesn't make any sense any more? What are the good things about them? If we didn't do them, how else could we get those good things?

kofanchen,
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@neuralreckoning @nicolaromano @steveroyle I am not sure "NO one reads PhD thesis" is entirely true, at least myself actively look out and read chapters of PhD and MSc thesis on when it is subject I interested. They usually more useful than their published counterparts if those also exist often not

kofanchen,
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@maegul
I would not deny the reward cycles in science has become publication and grant cycles but I would like to think (perhaps naively) science is a bit more than just that..calling PhD thesis as compensation seems harsh 🙏
@IanSudbery @neuralreckoning @elduvelle @lana

kofanchen, to Sleeping
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Nice to see this fantastic follow up from Stephane @dissel_lab1 clarifying the role of dFB in ,

Via @flypapers
https://botsin.space/@flypapers/112267139072254390

CatherineFlick, to random
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I’m once again asking my 20 month old to go to sleep, it’s 4am and you’ve been awake for 90 min

kofanchen,
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@CatherineFlick I find this daylight extending period particular challenging for my 3yo too...late to bed early rise 🙏

kofanchen, to Bipolar
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opportunity with James Hodge ( @DrFly ) and Alice French
Determining the and basis of disorder at University of on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/funded-phd-determining-the-genetic-and-circadian-basis-of-bipolar-disorder/?p171068

manisha, to random
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ugh, with ddg getting enshittified, I'm switching to https://www.startpage.com

kofanchen,
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@manisha oh! Could you remind me what is happening with dog?

kofanchen,
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@manisha @elduvelle wow, I see
Does Qwant any better?

rakyat, to threads
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See? I told you is HUGE in Taiwan.

“The success of Threads in Taiwan shows that politics is still one of the main reasons people come to a text-based social network, but it also highlights Meta’s uncomfortable relationship with political content on its platforms.”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/02/1090518/threads-taiwan-election-politics-popular/

kofanchen,
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@rakyat probably also an effect of Facebook/Meta being the main news driver in Taiwan?

kofanchen, to climate
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My PhD student was planning a conference trip to the Netherlands in June, I said "please check the Eurostar and if there is not too much price difference please use it instead of flights", they then checked with our finance team using dept credit card and told me yesterday " gosh Eurostar is half of price than flying! I just booked it!"....that is very pleasantly surprising for me, was there effort put in place to subsidise train that I didnot know?

kofanchen, to random
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Sigh...
"Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take more than funding"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/29/britain-universities-freefall-saving-them-funding-international-students

kofanchen, to random
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"It's kind of impressive, even to me, we've done something that measurably changes how fast the Earth rotates," Duncan Agnew, the author of the study, told NBC News.""
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68684244

skinnylatte, (edited ) to random
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I’ve been listening to language (Taigi) podcasts while running to help me stay in touch with the part of my brain that innately understands southern Min languages as a first language. I feel like I’m losing touch with it. Anyway, interesting content not available in English: heard a story investigating how the Taiwanese railway bento isn’t an ‘ancient’ food tradition like it’s perceived but rather one that came from Japanese colonialism AND food safety concerns.

kofanchen,
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@mcmullin @skinnylatte in Taiwanese Hokkien it is ga-chu (cal-state)

kofanchen,
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@skinnylatte I thought the concept of Bento is totally Japanese...?

kofanchen,
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@mcmullin @skinnylatte I would not be surprised coffee is from Japanese Kanji, Japan modernisation movement translate many foreign words into Kanji and Chinese simply took them as they are, for example Science is one

deevybee, to Pubtips
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My thoughts on eLife's publishing model, one year on.
http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/03/some-thoughts-on-elifes-new-model-one.html

kofanchen,
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@albertcardona
One selfish thought: about 10 years ago we had a manuscript submitted to Elife which was sent reviewed but then rejected...wouldnt it be interesting for @eLife to reveal these types of submission now? not as publication but notes (with consent from submitting authors): as this type will be published in the new model, it would give a sense if editorial criteria has evolved with new model? Also just a feeling of what is not good enough looks like for eLife?
@deevybee

kofanchen, to random
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pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
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This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.

“Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”

This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/05/banker-budget-mega-rich-traders-jeremy-hunt?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

kofanchen,
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@pvonhellermannn a very timely post for me too: Just spent some time with family at sunny Broadstairs, put things into perspective

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Half thinking of starting an #AcademicVenting hashtag here, about the dire, dire state of UK (global?) higher education. Sharing nuggets of senior management decisions, neoliberal language, and overall slow collapse.

Won’t work of course because most of us can’t risk honesty, but honestly: the everyday reality of what is happening deserves recording in all its depressing and damning detail. #Universities #AcademicChatter #neoliberalism

kofanchen,
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@pvonhellermannn
The Chinese students dependency reminded me the pretext of Sino-British War in the 19th century, where Britain demanded free trade mainly to access the massive opium consuming market ( other #histodon may correct me here, at least that is what I as told in high school).

However, some counter examples here: We also have substantial Chinese students but in my case they are usually better students ( we are not a Russell group) also quite a lot of civil movement among them.

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