And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty

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We stumbled upon a glass blowing competition in kzoo where one of the challenges was to bring children's drawings to life and here is "just a typical girl robot just living a normal life."

I have not seen this before but this is a very neat & helpful app. Just out of curiosity I just did a test run through it to see what the prompts/output looked like, but it fails to download (I get an error saying the failed download is because "site wasn't available" in Chrome.

Yes the irony is this would have been much easier with blogdown, but everything else is much harder (for a student without a coding background). Oh well.

...However, I will say my argument for it is waning with all the cloud-based, semi-version controlled systems the students have access to through the uni (Drive, OneDrive, etc).

If I do need students to learn git (e.g., for experiments, code), I have them use GitHub desktop.

I found the GitHub for Poets series a cute, soft intro to Git and version control more generally, and sometimes assign it to lab members if I want them to start using Git www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

📑 #2: Clinical Insights Into the Use of Speech Amplification Devices for Managing Hypophonia: Interviews With Speech-Language Pathologists pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

➡️ SLPs described in depth when and how speech amplifiers can be useful for some clients w/ PD.

📑 #1: Speech Amplification Device Usage for the Management of Hypophonia: A Survey of Speech-Language Pathologists pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

➡️ SLPs indicated when and why they might consider speech amplification devices for their clients with PD.