Parminder S. Basran, etc.
@psbasran.bsky.social
Associate Professor @Cornell, White Coats with Black Flags. Radiation, Cancer, Imaging, AI. Noisic. Views my own. 🇨🇦 in Ithaca
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“Adversarial Poetry, an efficient single-turn general-purpose attack where the poetic structure functions as a high-leverage stylistic adversary.” This is almost too good. arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
arxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“Adversarial Poetry, an efficient single-turn general-purpose attack where the poetic structure functions as a high-leverage stylistic adversary.” This is almost too good. arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
October 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Hearing Cocteau Twins more frequently in coffee shop 20 yrs post release is somewhat validating, and sad that a generation of music listeners just let this band slide past. Maybe GenX has more in common than GenZ than I thought.
October 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Hearing Cocteau Twins more frequently in coffee shop 20 yrs post release is somewhat validating, and sad that a generation of music listeners just let this band slide past. Maybe GenX has more in common than GenZ than I thought.
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
October 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Is it me or did a bunch of NIH grants just vanish over the last month? I thought i should take pulse after a deadline, make a plan for the next few months, and start hunkering down… but when i tried looking up the call… vanished.
How is anyone supposed to prepare for these things?
#academicsky
How is anyone supposed to prepare for these things?
#academicsky
August 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Is it me or did a bunch of NIH grants just vanish over the last month? I thought i should take pulse after a deadline, make a plan for the next few months, and start hunkering down… but when i tried looking up the call… vanished.
How is anyone supposed to prepare for these things?
#academicsky
How is anyone supposed to prepare for these things?
#academicsky
One thing you can say about this band is that they beat to their own drum…
👍🏽✊🏽
pitchfork.com/news/godspee...
👍🏽✊🏽
pitchfork.com/news/godspee...
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Remove Music From Streaming Services
The Canadian post-rock band has pulled its discography from Spotify, Tidal, and Amazon Music, with Apple Music soon to follow
pitchfork.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
One thing you can say about this band is that they beat to their own drum…
👍🏽✊🏽
pitchfork.com/news/godspee...
👍🏽✊🏽
pitchfork.com/news/godspee...
Just ordered some new coffee mugs for the lab.
Science is an interconnected system- humans, animals, and environments working in tandem.
"Science means everyone and everything” means science should be deliberately collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and benefit not only people, but everything else.
Science is an interconnected system- humans, animals, and environments working in tandem.
"Science means everyone and everything” means science should be deliberately collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and benefit not only people, but everything else.
August 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Just ordered some new coffee mugs for the lab.
Science is an interconnected system- humans, animals, and environments working in tandem.
"Science means everyone and everything” means science should be deliberately collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and benefit not only people, but everything else.
Science is an interconnected system- humans, animals, and environments working in tandem.
"Science means everyone and everything” means science should be deliberately collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and benefit not only people, but everything else.
August 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Too much nerd on?
July 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Too much nerd on?
It was the last in person summer lab meeting and the team served me up a royal roast.
I start our meeting with a QOTD= question of the day. These are simple as “Whats your favourite movie” to weird inane ones like “What’s the worst thing to unexpectedly find growing in your belly button?”
…
1/n
I start our meeting with a QOTD= question of the day. These are simple as “Whats your favourite movie” to weird inane ones like “What’s the worst thing to unexpectedly find growing in your belly button?”
…
1/n
July 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
It was the last in person summer lab meeting and the team served me up a royal roast.
I start our meeting with a QOTD= question of the day. These are simple as “Whats your favourite movie” to weird inane ones like “What’s the worst thing to unexpectedly find growing in your belly button?”
…
1/n
I start our meeting with a QOTD= question of the day. These are simple as “Whats your favourite movie” to weird inane ones like “What’s the worst thing to unexpectedly find growing in your belly button?”
…
1/n
Thank you for your attention to this backscatter
July 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Thank you for your attention to this backscatter
After +20 years of Institutional Clinical Medical Physics … at an age when i found grey hair on places that don’t grow hair, switching to the madness and uncertainty of a tenure track position …
July 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
After +20 years of Institutional Clinical Medical Physics … at an age when i found grey hair on places that don’t grow hair, switching to the madness and uncertainty of a tenure track position …
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July 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Fido is complete! We have a zoomorphic phantom from the tip of the nose to the end of the lungs for high precision, radiotherapy measurements and calculations!
Stay tuned!
#medphys
Stay tuned!
#medphys
July 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Fido is complete! We have a zoomorphic phantom from the tip of the nose to the end of the lungs for high precision, radiotherapy measurements and calculations!
Stay tuned!
#medphys
Stay tuned!
#medphys
Oh! Here is a thought! How about shifting the conversation from latest hype cycle AI buzzwords (E.g. Agentic AI) and instead to demanding that health information systems live up to the promises made 20 years ago?
I can’t prove this but I would guess better workflows >> 3rd party AI agents
I can’t prove this but I would guess better workflows >> 3rd party AI agents
July 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Oh! Here is a thought! How about shifting the conversation from latest hype cycle AI buzzwords (E.g. Agentic AI) and instead to demanding that health information systems live up to the promises made 20 years ago?
I can’t prove this but I would guess better workflows >> 3rd party AI agents
I can’t prove this but I would guess better workflows >> 3rd party AI agents
Last slice of FIDO being printed! Watch for some mindlessness, and message me if it goes horribly wrong
www.youtube.com/live/0EtGLla...
www.youtube.com/live/0EtGLla...
slice 10
YouTube video by VaiderLab-WhatsPrinting
www.youtube.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Last slice of FIDO being printed! Watch for some mindlessness, and message me if it goes horribly wrong
www.youtube.com/live/0EtGLla...
www.youtube.com/live/0EtGLla...
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The 51st annual Vegan Summerfest begins tomorrow. In today's essay on the blog, I preview the first talk I'm giving ("Free Speech for Animals") and describe the others. I also announce and describe my fall seminar at Cornell ("Animals and the Constitution"). 👇
Nonhuman animals and the Constitution: Vegan Summerfest, My Upcoming Seminar, and More
From tomorrow afternoon through Sunday, I'll be attending Vegan Summerfest , held on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown...
www.dorfonlaw.org
July 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The 51st annual Vegan Summerfest begins tomorrow. In today's essay on the blog, I preview the first talk I'm giving ("Free Speech for Animals") and describe the others. I also announce and describe my fall seminar at Cornell ("Animals and the Constitution"). 👇
On a serious note, I will never understand the concept of "iced coffee". I had it once and thought, 'Why would you torture your coffee beans in this way?'
About a billion people on the planet still drink 'garam chai' even when it's 35 degrees Celsius.
If you want a 'cold drink', get a Limca.
About a billion people on the planet still drink 'garam chai' even when it's 35 degrees Celsius.
If you want a 'cold drink', get a Limca.
July 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
On a serious note, I will never understand the concept of "iced coffee". I had it once and thought, 'Why would you torture your coffee beans in this way?'
About a billion people on the planet still drink 'garam chai' even when it's 35 degrees Celsius.
If you want a 'cold drink', get a Limca.
About a billion people on the planet still drink 'garam chai' even when it's 35 degrees Celsius.
If you want a 'cold drink', get a Limca.
Dear lord... I am trying to be a good scientific colleague, but ...
...YouR sTuPId sCHolaR OnE PlaTFurM iS fOrCInG meEE 2 RReGiTURE yEt AnuTHUR eMaiL and PussWeRD...
Make it STOP!
...YouR sTuPId sCHolaR OnE PlaTFurM iS fOrCInG meEE 2 RReGiTURE yEt AnuTHUR eMaiL and PussWeRD...
Make it STOP!
a man in a blue shirt with the words i 'm just trying to do the right thing
ALT: a man in a blue shirt with the words i 'm just trying to do the right thing
media.tenor.com
July 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Dear lord... I am trying to be a good scientific colleague, but ...
...YouR sTuPId sCHolaR OnE PlaTFurM iS fOrCInG meEE 2 RReGiTURE yEt AnuTHUR eMaiL and PussWeRD...
Make it STOP!
...YouR sTuPId sCHolaR OnE PlaTFurM iS fOrCInG meEE 2 RReGiTURE yEt AnuTHUR eMaiL and PussWeRD...
Make it STOP!
Are you interested in learning about the locations of medical physics graduate training programs worldwide?
Check -> www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
#medphys
Check -> www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
#medphys
Google Earth
earth.google.com
July 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Are you interested in learning about the locations of medical physics graduate training programs worldwide?
Check -> www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
#medphys
Check -> www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
#medphys
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July 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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