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one of the best academic paper titles

for those who don't speak academia: "according to our MRI machine, dead fish can recognise human emotions. this suggests we probably should look at the results of our MRI machine a bit more carefully"

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I hope everyone realises how incredibly important this dead fish study is. This was SO fucking important.

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I still don’t understand

derinthescarletpescatarian

So basically, in the psych and social science fields, researchers would (I don't know if they still do this, I've been out of science for awhile) sling around MRIs like microbiolosts sling around metagenomic analyses. MRIs can measure a lot but people would use them to measure 'activity' in the brain which is like... it's basically the machine doing a fuckload of statistics on brain images of your blood vessels while you do or think about stuff. So you throw a dude in the machine and take a scan, then give him a piece of chocolate cake and throw him back in and the pleasure centres light up. Bam! Eating chocolate makes you happy, proven with MRI! Simple!

These tests get used for all kinds of stuff, and they get used by a lot of people who don't actually know what they're doing, how to interpret the data, or whether there's any real link between what they're measuring and what they're claiming. It's why you see shit going around like "men think of women as objects because when they look at a woman, the same part of their brain is active as when they look at a tool!" and "if you play Mozart for your baby for twenty minutes then their imagination improves, we imaged the brain to prove it!" and "we found where God is in the brain! Christians have more brain activity in this region than atheists!"

There are numerous problems with this kind of science, but the most pressing issue is the validity of the scans themselves. As I said, there's a fair bit of stats to turn an MRI image into 'brain activity', and then you do even more stats on that to get your results. Bennett et. al.'s work ran one of these sorts of experiments, with one difference -- they used a dead salmon instead of living human subjects. And they got positive results. The same sort of experiment, the same methodology, the same results that people were bandying about as positive results. According to the methodology in common use, dead salmon can distinguish human facial expressions. Meaning one of two things:

Dead salmon can recognise human facial expressions. OR

Everyone else's results are garbage also, none of you have data for any of this junk.

I cannot overstate just how many papers were completely fucking destroyed by this experiment. Entire careers of particularly lazy scientists were built on these sorts of experiments. A decent chunk of modern experimental neuropsychology was resting on it. Which shows that science is like everything else -- the best advances are motivated by spite.

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90% of "teen brain" science is based on MRI bullshit also. these fish just disproved "brain stops developing at 25", as if it needed disproving again. well done fish

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it did not work, but i can help

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the ultimate dash cleanser.

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That made me so happy! I wish it was longer.

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The joy this gave me

People with ADHD !!!!!!!!

(yes I know I have ADHD too but my experience is in no way the definitive ADHD experience) (also I am a forgetful dumbass)

WHAT ARE THE DOs AND DON'Ts OF WRITING CHARACTERS WITH ADHD?

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based on this post

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WHAT THE FUCK????????????????????????????????

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My funniest ventriloquism story starts with the fact that I was obsessed with ventriloquism from a young age. I used to obsessively practice speaking without moving my lips, practicing the different tongue and air tricks and everything. Then I got sick with Bell’s Palsy, and it hit both sides of my face at the same time. Bell’s Palsy is like a headcold that hits your facial nerves. Anyway- This meant my entire face was paralyzed. I couldn’t speak using my lips. The doctor stared at me, dumbfounded that I was able to speak very fluently without my face moving at all.

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the doctor

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Matilda (1996) dir. Danny DeVito

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As others have noted in the past, Danny DeVito not only directed Matilda (and played her dad), but he and Rhea Perlman (DeVito’s wife at the time and Matilda’s mum in the movie) basically looked after Mara Wilson because Mara’s mother was in hospital with terminal cancer at the time of filming (She died during post production work, and it wasn’t until years later Mara discovered that Danny had taken an advanced (not quite completed) copy of “Matilda” to the hospital so that her mum could watch it before she passed.)

When Mara mentioned that she was feeling nervous about the dancing to “Little Bitty Pretty One” sequence, it was DeVito’s idea to have the ENTIRE cast and crew join in and dance too (off camera) so she wouldn’t feel self-conscious, apaprently even the craft services folks joined in, and the cameraman shooting the scene did a bit of a shuffle, but not too much because it would mess with the camera shot)

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Dan and I bought a thing called “long ziti” from the local Weird Bargain Store, largely as a joke, but…. I have never had a more unsettling pasta experience in my life. They wouldn’t bend enough to cook from top to bottom simultaneously, and while they were cooking boiling water kept spouting out from the tops of them out of the pot, like a boiling pipe organ. Then they were so long and floppy and hoselike that we couldn’t pick them up with anything other than tongs, and then they were so long and unwieldy that it was basically impossible to sauce them without them all slithering out of the bowl like wet snakes. They then proceeded to cool down almost completely within the the seconds it took to walk to the living room. Eating them was like eating a bowl full half melted drinking straws.

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Bringing back Long Ziti for another round because it’s just too funny

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real life creepypasta

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3write3

Silas Boucher, demigod son of the Outer God Aiueb Gnshal. A silent giant, he is mute and stands at a height of 6'4 (193 cm). Those who know him well are the only ones who can reliably read his body language. He is an enigma of a teenager to all but his closest friends.

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Anyone want to try out writing with wordsprints.org with me in like an hour? (I'm doing Camp NaNo with my WIP that's inspired by Percy Jackson and H. P. Lovecraft’s works.)

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I want to put some extra scenes I've written for my story on here

But I'm afraid to do that...

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Being a writer involves taking words and phrases and forcing them into bastardized versions of themselves that really doesn’t work at all, but at least you understand it.

For example, I just took “fus ro dah” and made it into a verb.

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Looking for more writeblr friends!

I don’t know how it’s possible that I follow so many blogs and I really don’t have a lot of writing content on my dash… (well, anything incompetent is possible with tumblr i guess)

So reblog if you’re a writeblr and I’ll go check out your blog!

If you see a follow from @undinisms, that’s me :)

I’d appreciate it if you could come look at mine as well!

Perfectly Imperfect

I'm perfectly imperfect

And that is how I'll stay

Perfectly imperfect

I will be all my days

You're never gonna change me

You can't even try

I will be who I will be

You won't even know why

Perfection is impossible

Why can't you see it's true

The bridge there is uncrossable

For those like me and you

Having knowledge of our flaws

Is how we live fully

If we all just take a pause

And fight our inner bully

#my poetry #poetry #poem #writing #writeblr

For those who want to hear about my characters...

Should I just talk about them with specific people over dms and leave this blog open for poetry or should I just post the stuff about them here?

#writeblr #writing #characters #ocs #talk to me

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List of Characters that appear in book 1 of The Weeks That Never Existed

Outer Gods

- Yog-sothoth

- Shub

- Korath

- Aiueb Gnshal

Demigods

- Brianna

- Aashi

- Alexei

- Takeo

- Celine

- Fifer

- Jesús

- Chelsea

- Bridget

- Philippe

- Marisol

- Jaspe

- Link

- Nick

- Rose

#my characters #twtne #book 1 #ask me about them #writeblr

A note

Many of my Outer God characters are named after deities from H P Lovecraft’s work. I’m not sure yet if I’ll keep the names or change them yet.

#series #twtne #writeblr #writing #characters

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