#public lecture

[miroslawmagola]

Schweizer Parapsychologische Gesellschaft Nene Von Muralt A Letter To Miroslaw Magola : Miroslaw Magola : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

[littlecrittereli]

Hey there! I read both Reprogrammed and Decoded and was blown away. Unfortunately (sorta), my odd little brain had one little question that was burning from the end of Reprogrammed till the end of the story: what about the Wild Kratts Kids? How did they react to Chris's disappearance/return? I know if I were 8 and my teacher (i guess thats an okay metaphor? maybe?) randomly disappeared for 3 months and came back 10 pounds lighter with dozens of new scars and white hair in their early twenties, I'd be a little torn up/curious. How would Chris feel about showing up on screen in front of a bunch of kids in his state? Would he...wear a...hat...or something...? I don't know, just thoughts lol

They never told the public that Chris was missing (Didn't wanna scare the kids or give the Villains the knowledge that they were vulnerable)

And being out in the most rural parts of the world, it's not uncommon for them to go months without any sort of public appearance. For now, Martin is handling any sort of press alone until Chris is ready to be back in the public eye.

But of course they still run into a wild kratts kid every once and a while.

He's still working on his alibi.....

[starcurtain]

One thing I wish I'd see more of among Ratio fans is some thought about how he views himself as a teacher.

Like yes, of course he refuses to compromise on the quality and rigor of the education he imparts, and he would find it unforgivably unethical to lower his standards in order to pass more students who had not genuinely learned the material. This is core to his character.

However, as someone who is a teacher IRL, I know the absolutely miserable feeling setting that kind of standard can cause. There's the obvious disheartening sense of disappointment ("Are students these days really not capable of doing the work correctly? Is our future in danger, if this is the highest level of understanding our current generation of students can achieve?"), but even worse than that is the self-doubt.

"Is this somehow my fault? Am I not teaching this material in the right ways for the students to learn? Is there something I could have done differently to get through to these students? Would a better teacher have a higher passing rate?"

We know that Ratio does (or at least did) struggle with feeling inferior to the Genius Society, so I think it is also likely, as much as he absolutely will not budge on his academic standards, that he has doubts about his teaching ability as well.

This is the man who wants to educate the entire world to cure the disease of ignorance, and yet only 3% of his actual students are able to get there. How can someone who gets so few of his direct students to a state of enlightenment hope to enlighten the whole universe? If so few students are successfully learning the material of a given class, doesn't that mean the teacher is doing something wrong?Would a better teacher--would a genius, maybe--not be able to impart their knowledge more efficiently and educate even the most challenging of students?

As someone constantly struggling with that balance between keeping academic standards high while also meeting the needs of today's students, I think the passing rates of his courses must affect Dr. Ratio much more deeply than I've seen fans discuss. I think he would question himself harshly over his class success rates, and I think he must be constantly trying to push himself to become the best teacher he possibly can be.

tl;dr: I hope one day the HSR fandom will stop sleeping on the fact that Ratio is an actual practicing professor who probably has astronomical levels of teacher angst. 😂

[professorsparklepants]

My recommendation for if you're a nosy bitch who's bad at making up character names is to just go to the holds section of your local library and read the names of all the patrons who have put books on hold.

[petbrain]

you called me a yapper knowing full well im a barker

[snowyshuanghua]

mdzs headcanon of the day #618 ! this is based off of the fact that i chowed down on a banh mi on seven minutes right before my chem lecture

if there’s one food jingyi loves, it’s a sandwich. he’ll fuck up a sandwich HARD. he chows down and it’s gone in three bites. you would think he doesn’t get fed at gusu

[fauvester]

nicktoonsunite's tigerghost haunting my brain

[hijinxinprogress]

Whenever the JL starts complaining about YJs public image YJ just straight up gaslights them

[singingcicadas]

idw Ratchet is someone who follows orders and respects authority. He might follow his conscience in spur-of-the-moment decisions that allows him the leeway/initiative to act on his own (e.g. setting up clinic on Dead End, breaking cover to save Verity and Hunter, going to look for Drift, voting against Rodimus in mtmte) but he's never openly defied the orders of an acting leader. Regardless if he doesn't agree with said order and thinks it's stupid. Or wrong.

Even when Ratchet thinks Rodimus' treatment of Drift is unfair, he never speaks up against Rodimus during the actual issue of the exile verdict. He only offers Drift silent support by helping him up on the way out, because Rodimus is the captain and you don't argue with the captain. Yes he thinks Rodimus is a crap captain and acts condesending towards him all the time but when it comes to rank and orders there's no ambiguity.

Voting against Rodimus in the crisis act is a legitimate expression of disapproval, made anonymously in private. He doesn't care about Rodimus knowing his vote, but in public it stays anonymous. He does tell Rodimus off about what he did to Drift, but again, he makes sure it's a private one-on-one appointment. He also doesn't make Rodimus formally revoke Drift's exile or sanction his search, he resigns his position as CMO and quietly leaves to look for Drift himself as a personal commitment.

Common stereotype of what Ratchet is not:

Medic ethics and commitment to patients comes first, factions be damned. I don't care if he's a Decepticon, he's my patient.

No he's not actually like that? When Megatron's in custody he's all lets dissect him awwwww why can't we dissect him why does mass murderers still get rights that's so stupid can't I just torture him a little?

Like he spent the whole war patching up Decepticon-inflicted wounds and witnessing Decepticon-inflicted deaths. He's not a saint. He has as much good reason to hate Megatron and his faction as any other Autobot.

In fact he was pretty eager to ask Optimus about what he's going to decide as Megatron's punishment after he heard about Optimus frying Megatron on the voltage harness.

Optimus has his heart on clemency. Ratchet's the one hoping for execution or something equally nasty. Even though their opinions doesn't line up, Ratchet's still 100% supportive of Optimus' decision.

He repairs Megatron only because of Bumblebee's orders, and makes his unwillingness known.

Later in mtmte Ratchet does save Megatron's life of his own volition and repairs him again, but that's after he's lived with Megatron on the same ship for six months (again something that he considers to be a colossally bad idea but is forced to live with because of orders) and got to know him as a person. Not because of bleeding heart syndrome.

Also Ratchet's not just a grouch all the time. He can be blunt but also knows when to be respectful as appropriate to the occasion. He reprimands Wheeljack for being disrespectful to Bumblebee because leaders should be treated like leaders.

The guy's been CMO since Nominus Prime, essentially the highest-ranking of his profession on the planet; you can't get to that type of position and hold it through consecutive leaders for millions of years without considerable interpersonal skills and knowledge of social protocol.

Prowl does have Ratchet on his little blacklist but the stuff on there really just refers to Ratchet saving Verity and Hunter back in Infilitration. I read it as more of a testament to Prowl's pettiness than Ratchet actually being a problem.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Dr. George Scott: City Psychiatrist Defends School Dropouts," Kingston Whig-Standard. February 16, 1966. Page 38. ---- A prominent psychiatrist charged here Tuesday that the "high school dropout" doesn't deserve the social misinterpretation that the word attracts.

Dr. George Scott, director of the Kingston Institute of Psychotherapy, said that when the socially upright can find no whipping boy another one is invented and today a new enemy has been found in the high school dropout.

"Because he has been picked out by society as a problem, he assumes problem tics: He must be stupid, he must be lazy, he must be different and he must have no future."

Speaking to St. Andrew's-by-the-Lake United Church Men's Club in defence of the high school dropout, Dr. Scott said he has found the term extremely irritating because it implies that a dropout is a failure and is going to be a failure; that he may be mentally or emotionally backward and frequently is a delinquent; that he is a social menace because the complete amenity of social education.

Dr. Scott said "the present rather volcanic upsurges of new teaching methods, of altered tunnel like options" have forced students into a rather brain box category-the university types, the vocational types, the business option types.

"The school system is a mitotic giant and is always growing itself and always worrying itself into new dimensions," he added.

Dr. Scott claimed the teacher must be a combined machine-human, methodically recording date of school performance and at the same time attempting to preserve the second image of the teacher and his pupil.

"Whether his method is by example, by discipline, by exhortation, he is expected to motivate his students to at least some standing."

The psychiatrist said government requires everyone in its society to be self-supporting. As social schemes, old age pensions, birth bonuses and care become staples of the past, government must have productive self supporting individuals to keep the machine of society operating and to finance the immensely complicated social welfare plans.

He emphasized that an educated man of $10,000 a year income contributes $1,370 tax to the government. Another man of Grade 7 background earning $4,200 contributes $540.

"Government cannot afford to be altrustic. It must encourage the educational process as it must feed itself and support its obligation," Dr. Scott said.

He urged that the high school dropout be "considered in the scales of circumstances, adult image, reward deprivation, role confusion, the philosophy of the failure of success, the role of record dominance and the area of the near sick.

"Let us weigh him (the drop-out), weigh ourselves and weigh our friends. Let us weigh the past and the present.

"Who should throw the first stone?" he said.

[miroslawmagola]

Alexander Imich letter to Miroslaw Magola

[chicago-geniza]

Gd I am getting so into classical music radio. This old man is explaining how music transcription and conducting work by playing Chopin on the piano then the brass arrangement this Polish-American conductor did by transposing it for other instruments/orchestral performance and then walking the listener through the music theory behind it in layman's terms without being condescending or facile. His voice is whispery and hoarse and he sounds like he's speaking from behind the veil of death. Why did nobody tell me there was a 24/7 radio station like this I'm obsessed. This is like the educational programs they had on interwar public radio. It's like a relic from the 1920s-30s. I love it so so so much

[emoclone]

every fucking day i think about the fact that during the 3-ish years i went to a college with a masking policy, i only got sick ONE time (and even then, it was directly traceable to my shitty roommate). the first semester that i transferred to a college with zero masking policy and zero testing options, i got sick 3 times. that has been my average since then - at least 3 separate illnesses per semester.

and i'm still wearing a mask! i wear an n95 everywhere! i don't even live on campus anymore!

MASK MANDATES WORK!!!

[artorphanage]

I recently got diagnosed with autism. The doctor said I've been in autistic burnout for the past 5 years and im tipping into DPDR (she was right but its too late, my baseline has been aware but temporally fragmented. The new development is sometimes i feel 0 sensation)

The doctor said i can fix this if I unmask and do things like wear compression gear and noise cancelling

turn my devices to greyscale

Live in dim lighting

She gave me a lot of small tips and they were good at first but now I'm getting worse. I have days now where I'm too tired to stim, too tired to bathe, too tired for everything (except schoolwork for some reason) (all of these things I enjoy).

How do I fix it? I haven't had a hobby in 5 years. I don't want to be in burnout and I want to fix all of it. Does anyone have any tips? Anything at all? Theories? Fleeting thoughts? Hearsay?

The one thing I can't do is stop. I'm a graduate student and I'm working on thesis and papers. And also it's a secret. Or else I'll get brutally harassed and shunned (it's a very strange neighborhood)

[russilton]

Folks I fear I have boy bossed— no— girl bossed— definitely no— transbossed too hard, and now I have to speak in front of 200 people tonight as I increasingly realise I don’t want to do that

Im doing it because I would rather stab myself than tell my boss im a coward. But still.

[covid-safer-hotties]

About this event

June 4, 2025

Event lasts 1 hour

Our next lecture in the series is with Emma Wall, visiting scientist in the Worldwide Influenza Centre. Long COVID has affected up to 2% of the entire UK population in the last 5 years, but we still don’t fully understand this often debilitating new disease. While we now know a lot more about this disease than we did in 2020, we still don’t have any proven treatments or diagnostic tests.

Emma Wall leads clinical research for the UCLH-Crick partnership on COVID-19. Her team at the Crick are focused on improving understanding of the biology of long COVID to help discover new ways to both prevent and treat this complex disease. Her talk will describe some of the work being done to test treatments for long COVID, and outline many of the interesting/pressing questions for those working in long COVID research.

The talk will be followed by a Q&A session, where Emma will be happy to answer any audience questions.

About Emma

Emma has been researching complex infections since first working in Australia and Uganda as a junior doctor, leading to a four-year PhD at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust clinical research programme in Malawi, Southern Africa, before moving to UCL and then the Crick as a post-doctoral clinical researcher. She is also a consultant in Infectious Diseases at UCLH, where she has been treating patients in the long COVID clinic since 2020. Outside of the lab, Emma enjoys running, gardening, cooking, playing the piano and hanging out with her family and friends.

Please note, this lecture is being recorded to be shared at a later date. We will have cameras in some of the rows and some seats may have a restricted view. The recording will feature only the speaker, the audience will not appear on film.

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There's supposed to be a stream on the date, and a recording will be made available after the event.