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psbasran.bsky.social
Associate Research Professor and Medical Physicist. Radiation, Cancer, Imaging, AI. Noisic. Views my own. 🇨🇦 in Ithaca
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Someone please explain why i have now watched this four times

Canada places 200% tariff on little Canadian flags Americans wear while travelling

Et tu, Apple maps? 😔

#NowReading The Chronicles of #MFDoom … a biography

The Monday letter took an explicitly ideological tone, writing that Harvard had benefited from the American 'free-market system you teach your students to despise.' McMahon also blasted Harvard for its association with prominent Democrats...

Guess what we’re teaching today? #medphys

Ryan Coogler discusses his contract for #Sinners “I’ve been in the industry long enough to know what kinds of deals are possible, and nothing about this deal is a new thing ... I asked for a few things for this project ... for what it was about and what it meant for my family" 🎥 Democracy Now

Lego Jigsaw Puzzle anyone? www.epuzzle.info/en/puzzle/pl... #medphys

He is risen

Happy #Easter

Learn how artificial intelligence is transforming veterinary medicine on the Veterinary Vertex Podcast: www.buzzsprout.com/2047448/epis... 🎙 @cornellvet.bsky.social @psbasran.bsky.social

Combing and cleaning some old files I came across this gem: a retirement video for a colleague medical physicist www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsUu... #medphys

The history of Earth as the length of a human’s outstretched arm - representing 4.5 billion years of time. At this scale, humans emerged so recently that we could be filed off from a microscopic slice at the very tip of a fingernail. Infographic by Katie Scott. #science

#NowPlaying Looping Barker's latest "Stochastic Drift" ~4 times. Gets better with every listen. There is a mild departure from earlier abrasive vibes but similar echoes/reverbs. The latest release has jazz infusions and organic sounds. Some tracks are intentionally ambient. Ear-candy bliss.

What Wab Kinew sorcery is this? **stares blankly in Albertan**😶

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My daughter adding Cabaret Voltaires “The covenant, the sword, and the arm of the lord” to her playlist means my job is done.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

I am looking for the actual freeze order and/or letter to Cornell. Anyone, please share a link if you know of one.

After requested revisions

Nerd shivers... amazing. www.auntminnie.com/clinical-new...

Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯! "You journalists need to get your balls back"

Uniter Why Elon walked into a Social Security Database & leaves with 150-year-olds Gov’t. COBOL system doesn’t support ISO 8601 date format & missing birthdates render as 1876-MM-DD Elon, get Y2K TECH SUPPORT #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #ResistanceUnited via: @niniandthebrain.bsky.social

This is absolutely not @ anyone, but I really want to emphasize for US-based folks that I've never seen so many people in higher ed/research pull out of travel, work, etc in the US. I hope there are changes/advocacy by academic orgs, because visa regimes were known issues. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

40% of U.S.-affiliated Nobel Prize winners in the sciences — physics, chemistry and medicine — between 2000 and 2023 were immigrants. www.axios.com/2025/03/31/u...

So... Coffee and yogurt for breakfast, wine and vegetables for lunch, and beer, some fish and nuts for dinner? Sign me up!

Every so often we need a reminder like this that words have actual meanings

NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is a "gang tattoo" and 2) displaying "logos," "symbols" or clothes an ICE officer says are gang signs.

#NowPlaying I have yet to break the seal on the LP box set.

A glimmer of hope and anticipation in dismal times. #Noisic in #Brooklyn, here I come.

Wow… what an amazing human.

Learn how to navigate the evolving #AI landscape with confidence from the first AJVR supplemental issue "From Bark to Bytes: Artificial Intelligence Transforming Veterinary Medicine": www.avma.org/blog/put-ai-... @psbasran.bsky.social @cornellvet.bsky.social

The Columbia administration's capitulation to Trump's ransom demands is not the last word on their legality. AAUP filed a powerful lawsuit on behalf of scholars whose funding was unlawfully suspended. It should survive the procedural objections the Trump DOJ will likely raise. Details on the blog. 👇

#NowPlaying Eat Static has KILLER music production. Pure headphone candy.

I keep thinking about this.

BREAKING: We are suing the Trump admin on behalf of our members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research to force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence. Stay Tuned.

HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.

Has someone curated a list of NIH grants revoked? We need hard metadata. Please share.

me & the paragraph the editor wants me to delete