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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong

@magical-michael.bsky.social
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MSCA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Granada 🇪🇸 🇪🇺. I like folding up arrays of numbers and then unfolding them again, depending on the vibe. I like cats and the occasional pigeon. Скажіть мені українською! 🇺🇦

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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Thanks for the visit, Vienna!
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Friends under cover #cats
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Two cali girls really giving it their all for the snuggle #cats
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Our 3 calicos having an important meeting #cats
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
5 #cat pile-up (rare)
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
One of our rescue cats, Ginger Beef, living his best life with my mom in Canada. Mr. Beef can't live with other cats because he's built different.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Dos de mis gatos - Mina y Phoebe.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I am spending new years eve alone, and will not be doing the Spanish grape thing because I don't want to die alone.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Grateful for my beautiful kitties today
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
З різдвом Христовим! Бажаю вам щастя в новому році
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Some of the gang. Staying warm in the room furthest from the heating unit. #cats #catsky #cute
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Fleeting moment with Mina
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chloe gibbs @chloergibbs.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
From the team that brought you the "Too Big To Fail" financial institutions, it's the "Too Brilliant To Be Held Accountable" men 🤢
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Relocating to a new city in May, and experiencing a fresh hell of visa and moving problems. If I weren't motivated purely out of spite for the awful public transit back home, I would be on the first plane back.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I love my cold apartment, it brings the cats together for snuggles.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Tucked in baby
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Mina is always trying to get close to Bo, by pretending not to notice she's there. It just looks like she's dissociating <3
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Cute boy Temperance doesn't even work, but has a stronger passport than me
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The most important personality metric is your most used emoji but we have to live like your favourite colour actually means something
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Pile of kitties #cats
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Mina sandwich #cats
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Another day, another injured animal 🫠
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Switching to tea in the evening is a sustainable way to maintain productivity without the risk of a panic attack. You can pry my 3 cups of coffee in the morning from my sweaty, palpitating hands.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I don't believe in genetic essentialism, but boy do I hate smiling in photos and I blame my grandparents.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Terrance Tao (one of the greatest mathematicians alive today) lost his main research grant after it was previously approved. If it can happen to Terrance Tao, it can happen to anyone doing research in the USA. www.scmp.com/news/china/s...
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Is China stealing the march on science talent as US funding cuts spare no one?
Trump-era cuts are hobbling US research, while China has stepped up efforts to attract science and tech talent, particularly mathematicians.
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Jon Kuperman @jonkuperman.com · 19/08/2025
King's Cross/St. Pancras is the C/C++ of train stations
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Lots of postdocs stress over their immigration to the US. The implication is that doing a postdoc at a "top" school is a golden ticket to a TT position. Really though, nobody gives a shit what school you went to. Research productivity is the best metric for success and you can do that in Europe.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Cuddle puddle, but Io looks displeased to have been woken from his slumber #cats
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
If the constant of integration was a cool Greek letter, and not "+C" everybody would remember it.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I tried to update VScode and it insisted on installing a windows bootloader on my Linux hard drive and downloaded some weird NVIDIA drivers. TBH I did not really like VScode all that much, and I was planning on learning Vim to eventually use NeoVim as my IDE. Maybe a little overkill but w.e.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Thinking alot about how the Beer-Lambert law is actually applicable to analyzing beer. This cannot be a coincidence #conspiracy
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
This is a small funding instrument in Canada that enables researchers to help prop up a dying industry. Contrary to popular belief, I do not think Canada is an advanced economy. Advanced economies invest more into economic diversification. Canada relies on its natural resource wealth. #science
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Word not only takes more time, but the Graphical User Interface breaks my focus.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Nobody wanted to adopt this FIV positive little guy, so we did a trial run to make sure there was no risk of violence between him and our other cats that could lead to transmission. Turns out he is just a sweet man who just likes sitting on the bed with his tongue out. No problems.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Weird thing about Ukrainian, it is common to switch "D" for "Д" if you want to go for a more modern - or futuristic look. I can confidently say that in Ukrainian the two most hated letters are (in order): "Ґ" (used for Russian loan words) and "Д" because fuck 'em.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
On this day in history, I performed a mock interview with a pharmaceutical company and after carefully considering the technical questions, I confidently answered them all incorrectly.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I'm not surprised an American government institution posted this, but I do wonder how you could paint something like this without having an "am I the baddy" moment. Excusing genocide because it was "normal" ignores many more developed societies who were not committing genocide at the time.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I'd really like to combine my coding skills with something practical like welding so I can make Gundams or some shit.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Finally embracing the Spanish keyboard; previously I thought it was like Mandarin where you type the sounds and it gives you a list of possible characters. To my abject horror, they actually expect you to know where the accent goes ahead of time.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The kind of models I am least interested in are the models that minimize prediction error at the expense of interpretation. I am looking at you XGBOOST.
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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Nature’s masterpiece! Behold the beautiful Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
No, but my cats would sell my soul to Satan for a treat
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
A powerful graph that shows the effectiveness of the HPV vaccine in preventing cancer and saving lives.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Loving kitties. Temperance is officially out and chill with everyone.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
This is hubris. Canada invests in specific research areas once it has been convinced of its applications in the private sector. There are practically no opportunities for researchers to pitch their idea based on scientific feasibility alone.
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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
What she means is “researchers in applied fields who can work in companies or develop products in Canada”. She does not mean academics. There will be less $$ and fewer academic jobs in 🇨🇦 for the next several years. It is not and will not be a panacea for research
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Elvira and Phoebe #cats
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Snuggle puddle #cats
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I finally made it as a programmer: someone on Reddit asked me to help build their cryptocurrency platform with zero money upfront.
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