Ada Kępińska
@adakepinska.bsky.social
"Gothy geneticist" sometimes in psychiatry and sometimes not at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, PhD; they/she; Lenapehoking
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Just an incalculable loss from which we won’t soon recover.
Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory.
Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory.
Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Just an incalculable loss from which we won’t soon recover.
Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory.
Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory.
Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
Oh James Watson died
November 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Oh James Watson died
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The rapid growth in Mendelian randomization studies. Gibran Hemani, Stefan Stender, Frank J. Wolters, Albert Hofman & George Davey Smith. European Journal of Epidemiology. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The rapid growth in Mendelian randomization studies - European Journal of Epidemiology
European Journal of Epidemiology -
link.springer.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The rapid growth in Mendelian randomization studies. Gibran Hemani, Stefan Stender, Frank J. Wolters, Albert Hofman & George Davey Smith. European Journal of Epidemiology. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I have just spent six hours (on my birthday) writing up my results and I am still not done, welp
November 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I have just spent six hours (on my birthday) writing up my results and I am still not done, welp
Feeling really sad that I had not enough time to get dressed this year (yet another year without doing Gomez and Morticia or, given what I look like, Elvira?) but keep thinking how this is maybe the only Halloween costume for late capitalism www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p-l...
Madonna - Material Girl (Official Video) [HD]
YouTube video by Madonna
www.youtube.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Feeling really sad that I had not enough time to get dressed this year (yet another year without doing Gomez and Morticia or, given what I look like, Elvira?) but keep thinking how this is maybe the only Halloween costume for late capitalism www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p-l...
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Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
Emergency running data helping a colleague and I have been doing okay doing to Nelly Furtado, but the shuffle just got to Robyn and I don't know if I can keep going (why can't you see me is me to academia in this metaphor)
October 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Emergency running data helping a colleague and I have been doing okay doing to Nelly Furtado, but the shuffle just got to Robyn and I don't know if I can keep going (why can't you see me is me to academia in this metaphor)
Career first: I just suggested in the peer review that the authors include a DAG
October 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Career first: I just suggested in the peer review that the authors include a DAG
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ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍
🧪 #SciComm 🌍
“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant
My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…
www.southernfriedscience.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍
🧪 #SciComm 🌍
This hasn’t moved much since yesterday, please help!
I know there's a million worthy causes to fund but may I suggest this teacher in Maryland who wants to buy two Albert Camus novels for his AP students? Please and thank you?
www.donorschoose.org/project/2-no...
www.donorschoose.org/project/2-no...
2 Novels From Albert Camus, a project from Dr. Michael Buso
Help me give my students a physical copy of a book we will read in our AP Literature classroom. This will allow each student to read the novels of Albert Camus in printed form. Since his novels are...
www.donorschoose.org
October 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This hasn’t moved much since yesterday, please help!
I donated, please go do it, too!
I know there's a million worthy causes to fund but may I suggest this teacher in Maryland who wants to buy two Albert Camus novels for his AP students? Please and thank you?
www.donorschoose.org/project/2-no...
www.donorschoose.org/project/2-no...
2 Novels From Albert Camus, a project from Dr. Michael Buso
Help me give my students a physical copy of a book we will read in our AP Literature classroom. This will allow each student to read the novels of Albert Camus in printed form. Since his novels are...
www.donorschoose.org
October 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I donated, please go do it, too!
The election is v soon so important question. Supporters of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, is it Zohranastrians or Mamdanistas?
October 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The election is v soon so important question. Supporters of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, is it Zohranastrians or Mamdanistas?
So now we happen to know how they feel about the machine or
October 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
So now we happen to know how they feel about the machine or
Southwark, I miss your silly every day (but no shade to anyone, I also mispronounced it for a while while living there!)
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Southwark, I miss your silly every day (but no shade to anyone, I also mispronounced it for a while while living there!)
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Reframing tenure as a form of worker protection rather than promoting its benefits for academic freedom will help scholars win the debate around its merits, according to the author of a new book, writes Patrick Jack #academicsky
https://ow.ly/ptJc50X3Lrl
https://ow.ly/ptJc50X3Lrl
September 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Reframing tenure as a form of worker protection rather than promoting its benefits for academic freedom will help scholars win the debate around its merits, according to the author of a new book, writes Patrick Jack #academicsky
https://ow.ly/ptJc50X3Lrl
https://ow.ly/ptJc50X3Lrl
Coding to Madonna also works? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Objt...
Madonna - Get Together (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Madonna
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Coding to Madonna also works? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Objt...
Is it just me or does Britney Spears' Blackout, her best record, undeniably, helps with dealing with code that one is struggling with?
September 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Is it just me or does Britney Spears' Blackout, her best record, undeniably, helps with dealing with code that one is struggling with?
Feeling v weird realising that I haven't coded to music in... weeks? Feeling also a bit awkward that a person in the department gave me a weird look while I (wordlessly, with headphones and mask on) bopped to the synth line www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAOR...
Gorillaz - DARE (Official Video)
YouTube video by Gorillaz
www.youtube.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Feeling v weird realising that I haven't coded to music in... weeks? Feeling also a bit awkward that a person in the department gave me a weird look while I (wordlessly, with headphones and mask on) bopped to the synth line www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAOR...
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🚀 NY-CURES Launch — Championing State-Wide Investment in Science! 🚀
Our new coalition advocates for sustained public support of New York’s vibrant biomedical research ecosystem — creating cures, economic gains & strengthening communities.
Sign up. Stay informed. Join the movement: www.nycures.org/
Our new coalition advocates for sustained public support of New York’s vibrant biomedical research ecosystem — creating cures, economic gains & strengthening communities.
Sign up. Stay informed. Join the movement: www.nycures.org/
September 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
🚀 NY-CURES Launch — Championing State-Wide Investment in Science! 🚀
Our new coalition advocates for sustained public support of New York’s vibrant biomedical research ecosystem — creating cures, economic gains & strengthening communities.
Sign up. Stay informed. Join the movement: www.nycures.org/
Our new coalition advocates for sustained public support of New York’s vibrant biomedical research ecosystem — creating cures, economic gains & strengthening communities.
Sign up. Stay informed. Join the movement: www.nycures.org/
TIL that Ed Miliband has a Polish mom, and I am somehow v shocked that nobody has told me
September 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
TIL that Ed Miliband has a Polish mom, and I am somehow v shocked that nobody has told me
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Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇
Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation
Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...
www.medrxiv.org
August 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇
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They cleaned subways during Covid. Now, they’ll get millions in back pay.
So proud of our team in the @nyccomptroller.bsky.social’s Bureau of Labor Law who won this $3 million settlement on behalf of 450 mostly immigrant workers who risked their safety for ours.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/n...
So proud of our team in the @nyccomptroller.bsky.social’s Bureau of Labor Law who won this $3 million settlement on behalf of 450 mostly immigrant workers who risked their safety for ours.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/n...
They Cleaned Subways During Covid. Now They’ll Get Millions in Back Pay.
www.nytimes.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
They cleaned subways during Covid. Now, they’ll get millions in back pay.
So proud of our team in the @nyccomptroller.bsky.social’s Bureau of Labor Law who won this $3 million settlement on behalf of 450 mostly immigrant workers who risked their safety for ours.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/n...
So proud of our team in the @nyccomptroller.bsky.social’s Bureau of Labor Law who won this $3 million settlement on behalf of 450 mostly immigrant workers who risked their safety for ours.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/n...
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Many progressives think Open Science is a good thing but it has an ambiguous stance re IP.
Here is @kathybowrey.bsky.social's critical intellectual property scholarship's angle on Open Science on @ishtip.bsky.social youtube page.
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Here is @kathybowrey.bsky.social's critical intellectual property scholarship's angle on Open Science on @ishtip.bsky.social youtube page.
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Our online seminar with Prof @kathybowrey.bsky.social on"Open Science's Progressive Potential. A Critical IP Perspective" is on youtube now, in which she diagnoses the potential and limitations of Open Science in relation to IP & other proprietary practices.
More online seminars to come in autumn!
More online seminars to come in autumn!
Open Science’s progressive potential. A critical IP perspective, Seminar ISHTIP 2025
YouTube video by ISHTIP Video
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August 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Many progressives think Open Science is a good thing but it has an ambiguous stance re IP.
Here is @kathybowrey.bsky.social's critical intellectual property scholarship's angle on Open Science on @ishtip.bsky.social youtube page.
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Here is @kathybowrey.bsky.social's critical intellectual property scholarship's angle on Open Science on @ishtip.bsky.social youtube page.
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I am not a coffee person (it's hard in Brooklyn where no one seems to have ever roasted or bought a light roast...) but I really like James Hoffmann for his careful testing and comparisons, but this was weirdly funny and delightful www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd1O...
I Bought David Lynch’s Weird Coffee Maker
YouTube video by James Hoffmann
www.youtube.com
August 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I am not a coffee person (it's hard in Brooklyn where no one seems to have ever roasted or bought a light roast...) but I really like James Hoffmann for his careful testing and comparisons, but this was weirdly funny and delightful www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd1O...
NYC peeps (or California peeps as I am supposed to be going to California soon): where can you buy opal apples? My local store carried them for a grand total of a month and the not amazing Amazon-owned chain pulled them also. I love my glorified golden delicious, please help!
August 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
NYC peeps (or California peeps as I am supposed to be going to California soon): where can you buy opal apples? My local store carried them for a grand total of a month and the not amazing Amazon-owned chain pulled them also. I love my glorified golden delicious, please help!