Amritha Mallikarjun, PhD
@amritham.bsky.social
Postdoc at Penn Vet Working Dog Center working on canine olfaction. PhD in neuroscience / comparative speech perception at UMD. Tell me about your dog! she/her
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wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
May 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
guard: [looking away] fine
wife: did something happen?
guard: [tearing up] no
wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
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Argh I realized this is likely a ChatGPT written rejection. Jesus
lol this email automation mistake from one of the universities I applied to summarizes this whole application cycle
February 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Argh I realized this is likely a ChatGPT written rejection. Jesus
lol this email automation mistake from one of the universities I applied to summarizes this whole application cycle
February 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
lol this email automation mistake from one of the universities I applied to summarizes this whole application cycle
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A greeting for negligent penpals and procrastinating authors. Postcard from my collection, 1911.
February 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A greeting for negligent penpals and procrastinating authors. Postcard from my collection, 1911.
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If you’re in line to sack Patrick Mahomes, STAY IN LINE
February 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
If you’re in line to sack Patrick Mahomes, STAY IN LINE
Broad is absolutely nuts
February 10, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Broad is absolutely nuts
An incredible game 🦅
February 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
An incredible game 🦅
Super Bowl here we come 🦅🦅
January 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Super Bowl here we come 🦅🦅
This game is actually crazy go birds
January 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This game is actually crazy go birds
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Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.
January 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.
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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the leading cause of infectious birth defects and linked to many other morbidities such as with transplantation. For the first time after >50 years of pursuit, a vaccine is in reach jci.org/articles/vie...
January 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the leading cause of infectious birth defects and linked to many other morbidities such as with transplantation. For the first time after >50 years of pursuit, a vaccine is in reach jci.org/articles/vie...
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We know football players get repeated traumatic brain injury… but what about other animals who get smacked around a bunch?
@nicoleackermans.bsky.social is studying goats to understanding how long term brain disease progresses in Traumatic Brian injury/CTI.
@nicoleackermans.bsky.social is studying goats to understanding how long term brain disease progresses in Traumatic Brian injury/CTI.
January 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
We know football players get repeated traumatic brain injury… but what about other animals who get smacked around a bunch?
@nicoleackermans.bsky.social is studying goats to understanding how long term brain disease progresses in Traumatic Brian injury/CTI.
@nicoleackermans.bsky.social is studying goats to understanding how long term brain disease progresses in Traumatic Brian injury/CTI.
These coloring book pages from my friend’s kid’s class are wild though
January 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
These coloring book pages from my friend’s kid’s class are wild though
It’s hard to watch Squid Game and have your main takeaway be, you’re right, we should exploit people in debt and make them compete for other people’s entertainment, but this time for ✨content✨
January 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
It’s hard to watch Squid Game and have your main takeaway be, you’re right, we should exploit people in debt and make them compete for other people’s entertainment, but this time for ✨content✨
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Rip people on the other side of the merger
January 1, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Rip people on the other side of the merger
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I’m reading this thread as an entirely fabricated and utterly brilliant two-for-one satire of how academia is portrayed in Hollywood and of the toxicity of Hallmark movies targeted to women — and you can’t convince me otherwise.
We begin Just in Time for Christmas to see more very bad professoring™️. Is this opening class for undergrads? Is it philosophy? Psychology? Who gets the survey course on enlightenment?
WAIT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS FORWARDED A THESIS TO THE DEAN WHO CALLS WITH AN OFFER?!
WAIT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS FORWARDED A THESIS TO THE DEAN WHO CALLS WITH AN OFFER?!
December 21, 2024 at 11:17 PM
I’m reading this thread as an entirely fabricated and utterly brilliant two-for-one satire of how academia is portrayed in Hollywood and of the toxicity of Hallmark movies targeted to women — and you can’t convince me otherwise.
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My friend’s kid brought this home today - this is a truly insane message
December 17, 2024 at 2:08 AM
My friend’s kid brought this home today - this is a truly insane message
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📢Starter pack for canine science: go.bsky.app/TPPUQyb Please share & all suggestions for more folks to include are extremely welcome and appreciated! 🐶🙌
November 12, 2024 at 8:36 PM
📢Starter pack for canine science: go.bsky.app/TPPUQyb Please share & all suggestions for more folks to include are extremely welcome and appreciated! 🐶🙌
I'm trying to build up a starter pack of canine olfaction researchers, so if you study canine olfaction from any perspective, let me know and I'll add you!
December 17, 2024 at 2:35 AM
I'm trying to build up a starter pack of canine olfaction researchers, so if you study canine olfaction from any perspective, let me know and I'll add you!
My friend’s kid brought this home today - this is a truly insane message
December 17, 2024 at 2:08 AM
My friend’s kid brought this home today - this is a truly insane message
This is so beautiful and moving - as a receptive bilingual I often feel some shame about why I struggle pick up more fluency when I can do so with more ease in other languages. This feels good to read
To the quiet bilinguals of the world—those who understand a heritage #language deep in their bones but might not speak it back fluently—your story is worth celebrating. Receptive #bilingualism is a quiet strength where understanding is just as powerful as speaking.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/silent...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/silent...
Silent Strength: Reclaiming the Beauty of Receptive Bilingualism
To the quiet bilinguals of the world—those who understand a heritage language deep in their bones but might not speak it back fluently—your story is worth celebrating. Too often, society tells you tha...
www.linkedin.com
December 16, 2024 at 5:49 PM
This is so beautiful and moving - as a receptive bilingual I often feel some shame about why I struggle pick up more fluency when I can do so with more ease in other languages. This feels good to read
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Does sound symbolism show up in real language? Do real words for spiky things sound "spiky"? Words for small things sound "small"?
I'm excited to share this new review paper summarising the existing work by myself and many others on these questions!
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I'm excited to share this new review paper summarising the existing work by myself and many others on these questions!
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Sound Symbolism in the Lexicon: A Review of Iconic‐Systematicity
Sound symbolism refers to associations between language sounds (i.e., phonemes) and particular properties (e.g., certain shapes). For example, phonemes like /m/ are associated with roundness, while p....
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Does sound symbolism show up in real language? Do real words for spiky things sound "spiky"? Words for small things sound "small"?
I'm excited to share this new review paper summarising the existing work by myself and many others on these questions!
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I'm excited to share this new review paper summarising the existing work by myself and many others on these questions!
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Who is doing a PhD on whatever is going on here because I have so many questions
Singer Turns ‘Feliz Navidad’ Into Protest Anthem Against Yoon Suk Yeol
Baek Jae Gil, whose viral anthem calls for the ouster of President Yoon Suk Yeol, has a long history with the country’s pro-democracy movement.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Who is doing a PhD on whatever is going on here because I have so many questions