kofanchen

skinnylatte, 16 days ago to singapore

If you’re in Singapore, like din tai fung, but don’t like how crowded / expensive their restaurants get: here’s a hawker stall that does functionally the same food for $4ish. Will also be crowded, but it won’t be $40

(I believe the chef used to work at DTF)

Taste of Jiang Nan
https://maps.app.goo.gl/CK7YDYrk2x7RkaMF7?g_st=ic

If you’re interested in making the DTF fried rice, here’s how: https://youtu.be/-YO63Wnz_Vo

#Singapore #TootSea #Food #dumplings #Recipes

kofanchen, 10 months ago to academicchatter

#Sinosphere #names #academicchatter @academicchatter

I have been wondering what is the perception of having non-romanised names in the authorship of papers? I've seen Chinese/Taiwanese authors doing this with their #Hanzi names. Admittedly, I did this for my 🦣 handle. But visually using #Hanzi is much easier to differentiate two names when they looks similar in romanised forms:
Chen 陳 vs. Cheng 程

kofanchen, 8 months ago to science

From @libroraptor
Boosted by @moritz_negwer

Shout out to my fellow biologist/geneticist/neuroscientist, do you have notes and write your papers like this?

I don't and I hardly take notes any more for anything...I laid the data in front of me and used them as triggers to my memories to related literatures....this part is not very methodic..if I had notes for my thoughts, it could speed up the process better..

https://mastodon.nz/@libroraptor/111135339713881475
#biology #genetics #neuroscience #accademicchatter

steveroyle, 9 days ago to random

The Lysosomes and Endocytosis GRC looks great this year. Sadly I'm not going 🙁

#CellBiology #MembraneTrafficking

https://www.grc.org/lysosomes-and-endocytosis-conference/2024/

kofanchen, 8 months ago to random

Did I miss something big on Thursday? https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/111107506934013412

kofanchen, 6 months ago to sustainability

#Sustainability #lablife
Contemplating energy consumption after my training course on ESD (education for sustainability development): #Drosophila stock keeping require monthly labour, food resources and energy, cryogenic procedure are developing to reduce these, with the recovery rate still improving. For #cell culture lab, do you have a figure on the difference between continuous cell passage VS cryogenics storage? Intuition is the latter is better with energy, but do we have data for this?

kofanchen, 5 months ago to uk

#ILR #immigrant #UK
Happy I found this information on gov.uk but it still does not fill me with confidence

https://www.gov.uk/biometric-residence-permits/report-problem

kofanchen, 7 months ago to Neuroscience

#neuroscience #sciencejobs
https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12806470/research-group-leader-neurobiology-lmb-2255/

kofanchen, 4 months ago to random

I am glad to say I passed my #probation. it doesnt mean much in the current UK university climate. But at least my job is secure (for now). When I started the post in the mid of pandemic, I was rather pathemistic about this, thanks to our dept (Genetics and Genome Biology) seniors and @NeurogeneticsLeicester , I was helped all the way through from getting grants, teaching and setting up lab, recruiting lab members. #lablife #academicchatter
now it is time to do my year one #researchfish😱

kofanchen, 9 months ago to bluesky

is it is true that #Bluesky are gathering #sciencechatter and joins? :(

CatherineFlick, 24 days ago to random

10 years or so ago I went to Australia and saw that the big thing was bao buns. Now it’s finally caught up here. Like bubble tea and good coffee the UK is roughly a decade behind Australian culinary trends. https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/20/sales-of-bao-buns-on-a-roll-as-britons-fall-in-love-with-asian-treat

kofanchen, 3 months ago to Birds

#birds not sure what this one wants from me....any Gongye Chang (公冶長) on Mastodon? #folklore
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gongye_Chang

Starling calling on a pavement

kofanchen, 2 months ago to climate

#climatecrisis #train
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 #EU train that I didnot know?

kofanchen, 2 months ago to random

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, 4 months ago to random

Happy New Year Eve
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4cb683802d94cc80ad062ca7946e654445559e96/0_0_4569_3046/master/4569.jpg?width=965&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e1a8e9b3ddcf88cf2821ab356a20fa7c

kofanchen, 6 months ago to climate

Contrary to my self image..
I am not the middle class in the category of this article (not at Top 10% UK income) and don't drive...beside that, this news doesn't cheer me up at all

"Revealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classes"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/revealed-huge-climate-impact-of-the-middle-classes-carbon-divide
#climate

kofanchen, 6 months ago to uk

Commute is at the mercy of the #UK #train operators. I am amazed by how much it is hanging by a thread (finance and infrastructure) but still provides a reasonable level of service; I was meant to take 0627 train to catch a 0642 connection, arrived at the station 0613, yet caught the delayed 0612...arriving my connection station to find out my original 0642 is cancelled but 0625 connection is late so I caught that one. Would be disaster! if I stuck to my plan..why the two operators late in sync?

Train coming into station

kofanchen, 1 month ago to random

This is the first week we feel a sense of summer and it reminds me this brilliant #Taiwanese Pop song by "Five hundred", there is nothing quite like this. It applied very elegant #Hokkien 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

kofanchen, 26 days ago to uk

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

#UK #visa #residency

"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, 24 days ago to Taiwan

#Taiwan presidential transfer. Time to say goodbye

kofanchen, 19 days ago to random

Cool #diptera in the garden, anyone can ID this? #insect could it be Acidia cognata?
https://uknature.co.uk/flies/a.cognata-info

kofanchen, 18 days ago to Taiwan

Week one in the new administration in #Taiwan, things are getting a bit concerning. We have on one side opposition parties tried to expand the legislative power
https://mastodon.online/@newbloommag/112497354331258676

And separate China holds large scale military drills

https://mstdn.social/@davidonformosa/112494302145784580

China propaganda machine also putting pressure on Taiwanese entertainers working in China to conform

It's incredibly distracting and overwhelming situation...Taiwan gov should keep their vigilant eyes on all fronts

kofanchen, 7 days ago to mastodon

Hi everyone! Apparently I have been enjoying #Mastodon a bit too much over the 1.5 year, and the topics I engaged has diverted from Drosophila a lot!! For this reason I have now branched out my more #political and #history and #life oriented post to @kofanchen if you are interested in what I said about #Taiwan and other non science related stuff go over there and give me a follow! I will stop those topics from this account

kofanchen, 9 days ago to random

#lablife
a rare begining of the week to have good news on technical success: #Drosophila #Electroretinogram is starting to produce good data; DART system from @BFKlab is running too, so we can finally probe arousal threshold again!