Chenchen Li
cc-li.bsky.social
Chenchen Li
@cc-li.bsky.social
Neuro/AI researcher || STEM design consulting

Blog: https://ccli.substack.com/
Design portfolio: https://ccli.myportfolio.com
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Sixty years later and we still can’t solve it—what’s going on?
July 17, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Kind of obsessed with the idea that you can steal the bill itself.
A member of Taiwan's parliament stole a bill and ran off with it to prevent it from being passed
June 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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"You have died of dysentery." A path into science shouldn't be as fraught as the Oregon Trail. Check out epidemiologist, NSF GRFP fellow, and Kansan @haileyrobertson.bsky.social's McClintock letter in the Topeka Capital-Journal! www.cjonline.com/story/opinio...
Topeka scientist says NSF funds critical to infectious disease forecasting | Opinion
Planned budget cuts for 2026 would deepen damage to STEM education, jobs, and public access to taxpayer-funded data.
www.cjonline.com
June 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The data-driven approach to running is probably not the best way (this includes strava, unfortunately)
open.substack.com/pub/ccli/p/w...
What Ethiopian runners taught me about reading scientific literature
Or, how to go from overeating Italian food to winning marathons, if you are Ethiopian
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June 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Any thoughts on viable out-of-the-box alternatives for research funding? Since academics spend so much time applying for grants anyway?
June 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Demos in algorithmic diversity
The way this indie bookstore is organized is unhinged.
June 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM
How Oliver Sacks mysteriously ruined a man’s life.

“Another patient at the headache clinic was a young mathematician who also had Sunday migraines…

When I gave this man medication and cured him of his migraines, I also cured him of his mathematics.”

On the move: A life. Pan Macmillan, 2016.
June 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Everybody makes fun of giant pandas for seeming like they're evolutionarily suboptimal. But are they really?

Why scientists changed their minds about the giant panda in 2021
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Papers are boring and complicated. But is that good for me?
Or, why scientists changed their mind about the giant panda in 2021
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June 27, 2025 at 6:54 AM