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Halophore
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Fluorescent materials startup spun out of the Amar Flood lab at Indiana University Bloomington. Powered by support from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health
Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno, RDI: A Retrospective
October 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I've read that we have a cognitive bias to treat easy/intuitive explanations as more credible. Do you think your subjects infer the meaning of jargon from their own experience (and realize they don't actually know when asked) or are they solely treating jargon as [credibility noise]?
June 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Well then if it's me I print out this picture and put it up over the light switch with an aggressive quantity of duct tape, maybe even with a bunch of glitter behind it if were improperly removed
March 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I don't know if you're allowed to make modifications to your lab space but there are several options for keyed light switch locks like below. Put a note on the coverplate instructing them to find lab personnel to open the door
March 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Problematically, conspiracy epistemology accepts the absence of evidence as affirming the conspiracy hypothesis - "we have no evidence for our claims BECAUSE the conspirators hid it", which moves this mode of thinking away from questions of verifiable reality
March 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM