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expendable - bloodymary

got a crick in my neck and a frog in my throat and a chip on my shoulder and a stick up my ass and now you're gonna stand there puttin words in my mouth? haven't I been through enough?

mumblesplash

thumbs up baby 👎

Can’t wait to not sleep at all on September 11th

spinostarz

i know ur from the uk(?) but reading this as an american is really really funny

loulooser

why 😭 it’s about twenty one pilots???? Their new album is out sep 12th????

jarsjam

THERE'S TWENTY ONE THIS TIME???

godsplatter

#witch hat atelier

anka-dm

My illustrations the most based poem about tigers by Nael, age 6

Every time I read it I feel space inside my chest expand in very *emotion* way.

rapidlydecayingcorpse

“oooh i need junji ito to write me an essay” okay so youre a little baby so youre a little baby waby who needs mommys help

rapidlydecayingcorpse

not junji ito. where did he come from. this is supposed to say chatgpt

kla1991

dogpuppy

str8aura-no-not-that-one

never getting over how genuinely distressed tai lung looks when po does his shuffling trick. mid fight this man stops and panics because he cant figure out a childrens magic trick

floople-doople

#i fucking love this movie

hawberries

concept: kyoutani but he smiles like a squinty dog (insp police dog ofc)

#haikyuu!!#kyouhaba

joshpeck

the term "i love to boggy" will now be incapable of leaving my lexicon anytime soon

wayneradiotv

BLUE ORANGE GREEN GREEN YELLOW

onlinebeast

You did it!

dabiwantsfood

Athena and her scary dog privilege

quietwingsinthesky

you can’t call something a crackship if they have multiple scenes together and insane sexual tension. not even if only a few people ship them. that’s just a rarepair. the line must be drawn here.

quietwingsinthesky

“crackship” is for when he-man cheats on skeletor with sans at the skeleton family reunion

rlyehtaxidermist

one of the best academic paper titles

rlyehtaxidermist

for those who don't speak academia: "according to our MRI machine, dead fish can recognise human emotions. this suggests we probably should look at the results of our MRI machine a bit more carefully"

derinthescarletpescatarian

I hope everyone realises how incredibly important this dead fish study is. This was SO fucking important.

imightbeobsessedwithsocks

I still don’t understand

derinthescarletpescatarian

So basically, in the psych and social science fields, researchers would (I don't know if they still do this, I've been out of science for awhile) sling around MRIs like microbiolosts sling around metagenomic analyses. MRIs can measure a lot but people would use them to measure 'activity' in the brain which is like... it's basically the machine doing a fuckload of statistics on brain images of your blood vessels while you do or think about stuff. So you throw a dude in the machine and take a scan, then give him a piece of chocolate cake and throw him back in and the pleasure centres light up. Bam! Eating chocolate makes you happy, proven with MRI! Simple!

These tests get used for all kinds of stuff, and they get used by a lot of people who don't actually know what they're doing, how to interpret the data, or whether there's any real link between what they're measuring and what they're claiming. It's why you see shit going around like "men think of women as objects because when they look at a woman, the same part of their brain is active as when they look at a tool!" and "if you play Mozart for your baby for twenty minutes then their imagination improves, we imaged the brain to prove it!" and "we found where God is in the brain! Christians have more brain activity in this region than atheists!"

There are numerous problems with this kind of science, but the most pressing issue is the validity of the scans themselves. As I said, there's a fair bit of stats to turn an MRI image into 'brain activity', and then you do even more stats on that to get your results. Bennett et. al.'s work ran one of these sorts of experiments, with one difference -- they used a dead salmon instead of living human subjects. And they got positive results. The same sort of experiment, the same methodology, the same results that people were bandying about as positive results. According to the methodology in common use, dead salmon can distinguish human facial expressions. Meaning one of two things:

Dead salmon can recognise human facial expressions. OR

Everyone else's results are garbage also, none of you have data for any of this junk.

I cannot overstate just how many papers were completely fucking destroyed by this experiment. Entire careers of particularly lazy scientists were built on these sorts of experiments. A decent chunk of modern experimental neuropsychology was resting on it. Which shows that science is like everything else -- the best advances are motivated by spite.

dragon-in-a-fez

90% of "teen brain" science is based on MRI bullshit also. these fish just disproved "brain stops developing at 25", as if it needed disproving again. well done fish