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ttpphd

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Applied and translational sensory scientist. Advocate for bodily autonomy. Nonbinary feminist killjoy.

https://ttpphd.com

Alt-text: me, a chubby faced white person with long dark brown curly hair, giving side eye behind some glasses.

Banner: a person in a denim jacket on a bike with a life sized plastic skeleton attached to the rear carrier.

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philipncohen, to random
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Control group says what now?

ttpphd,
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@philipncohen

Cureus strikes again.

ttpphd, to random
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Wow I can't believe Lady Gaga won the Great British Bake Off. Can't believe it at all.

KatM, to random
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This is an honest question with only sincere interest behind it, but as a straight, white woman I understand my motives may be suspect, especially if you don’t already know me. So here goes…

“LGBTQ2S+” as a descriptive word to include lots of different people is unwieldy (sorry, English major here). Is it bad form to simply say “queer community” now? My favorite cousin came out in the 80s, so he’s an older gay man and may be out of touch. That’s the word he uses. Is it no longer acceptable?

ttpphd,
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@KatM

There is no shared hive mind, so whatever answers you get (including this one) are not universal. That said, queer community is generally ok imo. Might also try gender diverse people if that's the group you are referring to, or people with diverse gender / sexual identities is another phrase that is both banal and encompasses most of the LGBTQ+ alphabet.

ttpphd,
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@KatM Thanks for your thoughtfulnes!

Very rarely, I have run into people who object to the word queer because it has a history of being used as a slur. These folks tend to be older or more conservative in their views.

To be honest these days I've had more people object to the word lesbian (instead preferring "queer woman") than to the word queer. So the word queer or queer community is probably your safest bet.

ttpphd, to music
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Gimmie Some Salt
by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Take a little nostalgia trip with me.

2005 was an INSANE year for music. We got albums from:

Jamiroquai
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Aimee Mann
Ladytron
Andrew Bird
Brian Eno
Sufjan Stevens
The Chemical Brothers
LCD Soundsystem
Eels
Gorillaz
Goldfrapp
Beck
Rihanna
Death Cab for Cutie

Even Big Star got back together to release an album. Oh so did Depeche Mode!

So much more!

https://clapyourhandssayyeah.bandcamp.com/track/gimmie-some-salt

ttpphd, to music
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I am searching for an MP3
by Zea

Have you ever heard a song out and about and you desperately want an mp3 of it? To burn it on a CD to play in your car?

https://zeamusic.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-searching-for-an-mp3

#Music #PopPunk #Rarities #Nederland

ttpphd, to random
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LLM-fueled website pollution is so real

ttpphd, to random
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My dad asked me to send him stories about my mom.

My gut reaction is "absolutely not".

That is a tough reaction to sit with.

ttpphd, to portland
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Hahaha yessss

Seen in ,

ttpphd, to science
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Neonatal male circumcision is associated with altered adult socio-affective processing.
Miani et al. (2020) Heliyon

Men who experienced early penile circumcision showed
-more anxious and avoidant attachment styles.
-higher levels of perceived stress.
-higher levels of sensation seeking.

The negative consequences of nonconsensual circumcision are whole-person and last the whole lifetime.

https://www.cell.com/heliyon/pdf/S2405-8440(20)32409-9.pdf

ttpphd, to random
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Ugh waking up randomly at 3 AM. I really am middle aged. 🥲

ttpphd, to random
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I get it. People are skeptical about claims that x, y, or z is a risk factor for autism spectrum disorder because of the debunked and retracted studies trying to force a connection to vaccines.

However...

The connection between circumcision and autism is already more robust than the supposed connection with vaccines. The circumcision studies do not have the "bad science" smell.

The researchers took great pains to create validation models and examined hypotheses on potential confounders.

nora, to random
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i wonder what the maximum size is for an earring to have someone actually wear it

ttpphd,
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@nora drag queens are like, hold my mimosa

ttpphd,
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@nora hahaha ummm you know maybe there's a few... But I suppose I haven't met any myself

ttpphd, to Autism
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Why Not Circumcise Your Boy? A Potential Link to Autism
Even if culturally common in USA, parents should think twice.
By Darcia Navarez, PhD

"studies to date have not adequately evaluated the disparate male to female autism predominance because of inadequate study design -- failure to control for confounding of outcomes with circumcision (which should be part of any future well-controlled neuroimaging/epidemiologic/epigenetic studies of ASD / comorbidities)."

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/moral-landscapes/201702/why-not-circumcise-your-boy-potential-link-autism

ttpphd,
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@schratze it's a write up on psychology today about the studies finding a link between childhood genital cutting and autism spectrum disorder. See more here: https://mastodon.social/@ttpphd/112419325132875784

Wuzzy, to science
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As long society accepts genital "surgeries" on babies so they conform to some bullshit norms, we cannot call ourselves enlightened.

https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/07/25/i-want-be-nature-made-me/medically-unnecessary-surgeries-intersex-children-us

"Two common goals of these cosmetic 'normalizing' surgeries on children’s genitals are to enable penetrative intercourse, and to help the child to and sexual norms"

It's based on , not .
It MUST be condemned like <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation>.

ttpphd,
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@Wuzzy all forms of nonconsensual genital cutting should be banned, including penile circumcision and medically unnecessary intersex surgeries. Right on.

ttpphd, to random
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It's always ok to laugh at a billionaire because billionaires shouldn't exist.

ttpphd, to random
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The decade of the scam.

ttpphd, to philosophy
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Oops I got another book.

"Affect and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism: Pedagogies for the Renewal of Democratic Education, suggests ideas about affective pedagogies for educators to use (along with recognizing the risks involved) to renew democratic education"

By Michalinos Zembylas, 2021

https://www.cambridgeblog.org/2021/04/affect-right-wing-populism-and-education/

#Fascism #Biopower #biopolitics #philosophy #book

ttpphd,
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This book has lots of interesting ideas that are helping me refine my thinking of political change, moral panic, citizenship in a democracy, and empathy or compassion as a political emotion (souring into pity).

Gonna think about how to translate this to plainer English...

ttpphd,
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Wow this book is great! I didn't know about necropolitics before, and now I've got a clear explanation of this new (to me) concept and its connection to sentimentality. Now I can explain why pleas for greater empathy for children's suffering is problematic if they are not connected to the expansion of children's agency (not "interests") and adult's responsibilities toward children (not paternalism or "deciding what's best").

ttpphd, to Autism
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Foreskin Morbidity in Uncircumcised Males
Sneppen and Thorup, Pediatrics 2016

"In our patient population, we found that 7.2% (95% CI 3.4–11.0) were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as a concomitant disease (Table 3). A recent Danish study calculated the prevalence of ASD in Denmark to be 1.5% among boys."

Association found between ASD and childhood penile surgeries. This is reference 1, next toot has #2.

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/137/5/e20154340/51976/Foreskin-Morbidity-in-Uncircumcised-Males

ttpphd,
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@itsmeholland yes, researchers talk about the "First 1000 days" as a critical neurodevelopmental window.

Here's a recent paper discussing the link between autism and the cell danger response.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06102-y#ref-CR24

ttpphd, to philosophy
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Some Narrative Conventions of Scientific Discourse
Rom Harré, 1990

"The academic ‘we’ might seem at first glance to be just a version of the editorial ‘we’. Like the latter it is mutedly egocentric but it is not mainly used to imply teamwork. Rather, it is used to draw the listener into complicity, to participate as something more than an audience. "

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203981115-14/narrative-conventions-scientific-discourse-rom-harr%C3%A9

This is my new favorite thing.

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Communication #Discourse #Science

ttpphd,
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"The moral order of the scientific community is or appears to be élitist, at least in one sense of that term. The valuation of an opinion concerning some matter taken to be scientific is determined by resort to expertise, which is itself guaranteed by a combination of communal certification and personal demonstrations of mastery."

Who counts as an expert? We are left with appeals to experts, who are deemed experts by appeals to other experts, and so on, a ladder of induction toward "expertise".

ttpphd, to Ethics
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“Violence” in medicine: necessary and unnecessary, intentional and unintentional
Johanna Shapiro, 2018. Phil. Ethics, and Hum. in Med.

"I further suggest possible explanations for the origins of these kinds of violence in physicians, including the fear of suffering and death in relation to vicarious trauma and the consequent concept of “killing suffering”; as well as why patients might be willing to accept such violence directed toward them."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13010-018-0059-y

#Ethics #Philosophy

ttpphd,
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"As has been noted, structural violence injures some, but protects and benefits others. Acknowledging that one is implicated in the suffering of others is a painful realization. To safeguard themselves, many physicians might prefer to avoid it."

#Shame #Violence #Accountability

ttpphd,
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"When physicians are unable to honestly confront and acknowledge suffering; when out of fear they deny their privilege and the way in which healthcare systems often disenfranchise the patients they are trying to serve; when they inappropriately indulge in violent language out of self-protection and a desire to establish a heroic, invincible image – all these result in harm to patients, families, staff, and colleagues."

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