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“You can discard most of the junk that clutters your mind — things that exist only there — and clear out space for yourself: by comprehending the scale of the world; by contemplating infinite time; by thinking of the speed with which things change… the narrow space between our birth and death, the infinite time before, the equally unbounded time that follows.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (9.32)

not now, im noticing the pattern

What is quantum cognition? Physics theory could predict human behavior. | Live Science

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What is quantum cognition? Physics theory could predict human behavior.

Some scientists think quantum mechanics can help explain human decision-making.

Cosmic clouds form fantastic shapes in the central regions of emission nebula IC 1805. The clouds are sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from massive hot stars in the nebula's newborn star cluster, Melotte 15. IC 1805 is located about 7,500 light years away toward the boastful constellation Cassiopeia.

Image Credit: Richard McInnis

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Aperiodic Monotile

Super big news from this lot. (ArXiv)

A monotile that admits no periodic tilings, but uncountably many aperiodic tilings. WOW.

And they're calling it the Hat.

And Craig announced it with an animation!

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There are many postdocs in academia, but not so many permanent researchers.

A new paper shows a statistics on where hundreds of Biomedical Sciences PhD graduates eventually ended up 10 years or more after graduation.

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

From goal to outcome: Analyzing the progression of biomedical sciences PhD careers in a longitudinal study using an expanded taxonomy

Using a taxonomy that delineates key milestones, this study analyzed biomedical PhD student career goals and outcomes. We related career goa

What strikes me there:

1. Sooo many postdocs go to administration positions after their postdoc is finished.

And it's true! I know so many people in administration who were good scientists before!

The following graph shows that from 418 PhD graduates, 325 went for a postdoc and 93 didn't. 145 administration/management/operation (AMO in the graph) positions in the end is for me a bit shocking.

2. The time for a postdoc in academia to actually get a permanent/non trainee position can be up to 13 years!

Only half of the people makes in in 6 years after OhD graduation. That's much longer than getting a permanent job in administration. I do not want to be 13 years postdoc. This is also one of the reasons people quit academia.

There are many more facts in the original article. Go read it if you're interested.