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Isin Altinkaya

@IsinAltinkaya

PhD fellow at UCPH • Bioinformatics • Population Genetics • Statistical Genomics • BAL'14 #OpenScience #FreeSoftware #AutisticsinAcademia

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If social media is the new town square, should only those with job security be allowed to voice their opinions and influence society's decisions?

Quite obviously, this would exclude a whole bunch of people in academia, given their often precarious employment status.

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Well, I have autism, and for someone like me, understanding what might get me into trouble is challenging. Are my only options either
'never post anything online using your real name'
or
'never share any opinion that isn't supported by the majority of the U.S. media'?'

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Academia is scary.

I am terrified that I will say something 'wrong' without noticing it and end up being canceled. And 'wrong' is not defined clearly, if at all.

Would this happen if the same tweet was supporting the opposite opinion?

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İtalya’da ilk günüm:

Otelde odama çıkıyorum. Bi baktım ‘Piano 1’ yazıyor. Otele piyano koymuşlar, hatta birden fazla koymuş olmalılar ki numara bile vermişler. Ben heyecanla koridorlarda yürüyorum piyanoyu arıyorum 15 dk falan. Yıldım, ikinci kata çıktım.

Piano 2 yazıyordu.

İtalya’da ilk günüm: Otelde odama çıkıyorum. Bi baktım ‘Piano 1’ yazıyor. Otele piyano koymuşlar, hatta birden fazla koymuş olmalılar ki numara bile vermişler. Ben heyecanla koridorlarda yürüyorum piyanoyu arıyorum 15 dk falan. Yıldım, ikinci kata çıktım. Piano 2 yazıyordu.
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One of the wisest sentences ever uttered in a podcast:

“History is the fuel from which we imagine future histories we are trying to make”
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥

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First day in , saw a sign in my hotel saying “piano 1”. I get so excited, walked around for 20 mins to find the piano

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Sugar* is very bad for you. (*added )

This is just a belief I have. I don’t have enough understanding of nutrition science to evaluate the literature. I would also assume funding bias would factor in and make the meta analysis harder. Can someone help me with this?

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A great example of why science communication matters, and how boogeyman words can lead to illogical legislations.

are safe. As safe as non-GMOs.

Do not ban the technology; regulate its use.

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Am I the only one feeling like it takes more time for conda to resolve an environment (&eventually fail) than it takes to actually run some of the tools

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It is that time of the year again… Everyone talks about how nice the weather is and all you can think of is “oh gosh it is horrible, it is so bright, how can other people just walk around without their brain starting to hurt like hell?” Anyone else experiencing

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