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P. V. Sundar Balakrishnan
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Dad! Prof, U of Washington Bothell School of Business. AI/ML pioneer in Marketing.
Academic Editor PLOS ONE; Management & Business Review.
Analytics, Negotiations. Marketing, Analytics, Capt America case. UW Teaching Medal
orcid: 0000-0002-2856-55
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Armistice was declared on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918.

In this extract from Peace at Last, Guy Cuthbertson examines how people across the world reacted to the news of peace.

yalebooks.co.uk/peace-at-last/

@guywjc.bsky.social #ArmisticeDay #RemembranceDay
Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day - Yale University Press London
Armistice Day was declared on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918. In Peace at Last, Guy Cuthbertson focuses solely on the Armistice Day was declared on the eleventh hour...
yalebooks.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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“Katie Wilson takes slight lead in Seattle's mayoral race” — KING5

#SeattleNews #Seattle #KatieWilson
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
What a weird take.
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
This afternoon harvest
Potatoes, tomatoes, peppers.
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
#Chennai Kolam
November 9, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Today’s talk is all about finding the joy in being wrong. How, if we don’t spend time changing our minds, we’ll be wrong a lot! 😌

Don’t tell my husband I’m giving this talk though, I’m never wrong when I talk to him 🫡
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Hey everyone, is there a literature (can be grey) discussing the ethics of using #generativeAI in #conservation and-or #ecology? I have to persuade some folks to consider the “darker” side of it and some authoritative/academic sources would really help. Thanks for any links.

🌍#conservationscience
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
participation in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction MBSR is associated with changes in gray matter concentration in brain regions involved in learning and memory processes, emotion regulation, self-referential processing, and perspective taking.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21071182/
Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density - PubMed
Therapeutic interventions that incorporate training in mindfulness meditation have become increasingly popular, but to date little is known about neural mechanisms associated with these interventions. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), one of the most widely used mindfulness training program …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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I am not sure whether to laugh or cry at this; Kentucky residents tried to vote against Zohran Mamdani.
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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WOW. ANOTHER INSTITUTION SAYS GOODBYE

After more than two centuries in print, The Farmers’ Almanac will end its run with its 2026 edition.

The publication was known for long-term weather predictions, fishing and gardening guides.

Read more: abcnews.visitlink.me/terB-r
November 7, 2025 at 3:07 AM
My Salary is =
$8.22 Billion US per Month
Guess who I am?
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear
(CNN) — Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland — the nerve center for groundbreaking missions like the Hubble
www.wkow.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Democrat Aftab Pureval won re-election as Cincinnati mayor with 78% of votes, defeating Republican Cory Bowman's 22%, half-brother of Vice President JD #Vance, ran with Vance's endorsement.
ml.t-mobile.com/article-summ...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Where do you buy these, please?
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Metascience

Yesterday in class, I talked about HARKING (hypothesizing after results are known).

Next....

I brought a little dollar-store bow and arrow (suction cups), to do a demonstration of this idea 👇
November 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
Wow, what a speech. I had to read a lot of it aloud for the poetry in motion.
Congratulations @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and to NYC
The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Zohran crossed 1M
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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neuroimaging study "players who make more sustainable choices had greater thickness in two areas of the brain responsible for self-control and imagining other people’s perspectives.. connections with the temporo-parietal junction (TPJ)"
How to make a guy compost in 10 days
How can we use neuroscience to encourage environmentally-friendly decisions?
pennneuroknow.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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I don’t know why, but I continue to be surprised at the level of vitriolic racism dished out by this sitting Senator. Disgusting.
November 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
this gets at the difference between statistical significance and clinical significance, and sample size and baseline risk as they affect interpretation.
Since when is a 19% drop in adverse cardiac events and an 18% in mortality not clinically significant??

This review is bonkers.

www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
Semaglutide for adults living with obesity - Bracchiglione, J - 2025 | Cochrane Library
www.cochranelibrary.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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This is an *amazing* level of derangement about generative AI.

We are headed for weird anti-AI purity movements where ppl turn on personal computing entirely and start LARPing as Dune mentats, because they think the magic fascism math is hiding in every transformer, search algorithm, and BART.
November 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Microsoft AI DIFFUSION REPORT is now available

www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
www.microsoft.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
AI Spending
WSJ front page @wsj.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Sunset sky #Seattle
October 31, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Where are those for whom £30m is small change? Anyway, here in the real world, please donate if you can. @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

BBC News - Sir David Attenborough backs bid to buy Rothbury Estate - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sir David Attenborough backs bid to buy Rothbury Estate
Wildlife trusts attempt to raise £30m to keep Northumberland's Rothbury Estate from being split up.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM