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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
Steam funciona bien con Ubuntu, pero iCloud pide mucho.
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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 · 17/12/2025
But it was interesting because my ex-supervisor had all of these odd jokes about Ukrainians, like their purported fondness of bowling. Despite the fact that the movie deliberately mixed up Lemkos, Ukrainians and Russians I think a lot of the stereotypes must have come from this movie, given his age.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I actually watched this movie last week, just because Western depictions of slavic diaspora are interesting for me. I did not have high hopes, and even then I was let down. Archetypal: "Americans will kill you, and then make a movie about how killing you made them sad." + racial/sex stereotypes.
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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 · 12/10/2025
I force myself to drink it because it is the drink of intellectuals
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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 · 21/08/2025
special interest category isn't high enough, sorry I don't believe it.
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I just want to say that while I greatly admire Terrance Tao, I don't share his sentiment regarding the culture surrounding science in the USA.
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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...
scmp.com
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
It works seamlessly with Linux and at the end of the day that's what really matters. The only thing I don't like is that the keybindings are a little counter intuitive for LazyVim (the ones where you switch windows).
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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 · 01/08/2025
The variety of alternative nicotine products in the EU is really great (bad).
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Mykhaylo Sorokhan Armstrong @magical-michael.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
*A dying industry that relies primarily on foreign companies who will abandon oil wells once they cease to be profitable; avoiding clean-up costs, and giving nothing back to the people who live there.
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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
but I love feeling my teeth dissolve 😘
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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
I mean, maybe you're right I don't know what are the terms
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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 · 25/07/2025
Sorry Alexis, but likelihood != probability.
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