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emmettspeed.bsky.social
https://emmettspeed.phd they/he 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 PhD in numerical cognition & educational neuroscience at Utah State. symbolic number recognition, Mayan numerals, family math engagement. antifascist. husband and mother.
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It’s ridiculous that my wife might be denied spiro when my doctors’ attitudes toward my spiro has largely been “fill your pockets from the barrel in the hall”

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i made a Mayan calendar converter for Chol Q'ij/Tzolkin dates. emmettspeed.phd/cholqij.html I've been frustrated with other Mayan calendar converters for a while - they just give the date and none of the cultural detail, or all the detail is woo-y new age bullshit. So... I learned to code.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I'm also sick of calling congress but please do it this time:

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

I DID IT

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I'm defending my dissertation on Monday and it's feeling very real right now.

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there is nothing in the world so on-the-nose as getting home from one's PhD graduation and immediately sitting down to file for unemployment.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.

submitted 25 days ago • 122 comments

I straight up haven't been unemployed since I was 9 and started operating industrial sewing machines with my dad & grandma after school. I don't think it's really hit me yet.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

This time with the alt text hopefully working.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

My job just got DOGE'd.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

oh god its real, it's happening, it's an actual honest to god final draft

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Ideas

submitted 44 days ago • 566 comments

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

submitted 50 days ago • 716 comments

The more things change...

submitted 57 days ago • 17 comments

totally revamped my resume & LinkedIn after a "write a good resume" session at a conference. here's hoping I can make it past a few more AI filters now!

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We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.

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I'm gonna keep being political on main even when it is very clearly making it hard for me to get jobs bc HR googles me

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NOAA provides Americans with critical, lifesaving information about our planet. Gutting NOAA leaves us vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and environmental disasters. Call on your congresspeople to #SaveNOAA: community.citizensclimate.org/tools/protec... @vanhollen.senate.gov

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

The new documentary Counted Out explores how math impacts everything from the economy to politics. Hill-Murray is hosting a free screening on March 25. All are welcome and I'd love for as many people to see it as we can get! www.eventbrite.com/e/1141141507... #CountedOut

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Somehow this album turned 23 years old today. A true testament to the fact that recording quality does not hold you back, sloppiness of performance does not hold you back, and all that matters is the passion behind the songs… open.spotify.com/album/5a8YbV...

submitted 80 days ago • 36 comments

Salt Lake City - Join us to Stand Up for Science on Friday, March 7 from 12pm - 1pm. on the steps of the Utah State Capitol. Make your voice heard! @standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience2025

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🧪 Edward Huntley, Luke Hyde, @colterm.bsky.social, @christophermonk.bsky.social et al leveraged qualitative data to outline recommendations for incorporating underrepresented populations in neuroimaging studies, which is important for improving these studies' generalizability myumi.ch/4mnpZ

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

please, lord. it doesn't have to be a big asteroid.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

well. this has been a profoundly bad afternoon. got turned down for a job I was sure I had in the bag, and I've just learned I'm not defending my dissertation this spring after all. so. that's cool. that's good.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

This is their plan: Step 1: exploit legitimate pain suffered by young people and families caused by online harm Step 2: implement government-mandated online ID checks to "keep kids away from harmful content" Step 3: define all LGBTQ content as "harmful to kids" Age verification is a trojan horse

submitted 87 days ago • 21 comments

Now every day is trans day of visibility

submitted 87 days ago • 35 comments

FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

submitted 91 days ago • 109 comments

You cannot recover from this with future investments The data uncollected are lost forever

submitted 93 days ago • 8 comments

this is why they are bringing the full force of the law against us right now

submitted 93 days ago • 8 comments

Every ten minutes here is like: - Trump doubles student debt - Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs - Three planes just crashed - Trump signs EO making women illegal - Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA - Meteor not arriving fast enough

submitted 94 days ago • 108 comments