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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Just saw a cat on a leash; it’s all gonna be ok

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Saw an old tweet that doing a PhD was like doing a group project with yourself from 4 years ago. Had a moment today where I was thinking of all the past Camerons and was like, “Aw! What little guys! I’m so proud of them for trying their best and getting me here” #AcademicSky

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025

The NIH overhead cut doesn't just hurt universities. It's deadly to the US economy. The US is a world leader in tech due to the ecosystem that NIH and NSF propel. It drives innovation for tech transfer, creates a highly-skilled sci/tech workforce, and fosters academic/industry crossfertilization.

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I’m sure there’s a world where folks see this as, “There’s less money being wasted on ‘non-research related costs.’” But what’s the point of a greater proportion of money going towards lab equipment if it’s housed in decrepit buildings with less staff to handle paperwork? 🧪 #academicsky

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

There’s multiple studies I’ve mentioned in other replies! Gender tends to be covariate in those studies.

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Great chatting, gotta prep for class!

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

And ain’t that just the main issue???

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I think best is relative; shared values and goals with interdisciplinary knowledge is what I think of as being great. For example, a large portion of tech for folks with disabilities are abandoned because they’re made by siloed engineers without input for folks with lived experience.

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Fully agree, empathy is nuanced and multifaceted and culturally dependent. But the point is that it’s likely teachable rather than a static intrinsic quality. There’s actually a (super limited) study on neutypes specifically! it’s worth a read! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Actually I want to rephrase: “Engineers tend to work with others who speak the same jargon and have the same disciplinary culture.” My original phrasing of “work better” is maybe lacking nuance

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Oh I can absolutely imagine! Engineers tend to work better within their own discipline, but that’s a double edged sword. Empathy is by no means a one-shot predictor of managerial skill

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

PDFs available here: scholar.google.com/citations?vi... They just modified it by shortening it from 47 to 12 questions. Gave the modified version to STEM and non-STEM students, so they are comparing to their own data. We cited this study in a paper currently in review on an empathy intervention

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‪The role of empathy in choosing majors‬

‪E Jacobs, AL de Jongh Curry, C Astorne-Figari, RJ Deaton, WM Salem, YJ Xu, SG Roberts‬, ‪2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2019‬ - ‪Cited by 3‬

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Interpersonal Reactivity Index: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... Empathizing/Systemizing Quotient: digitalcommons.memphis.edu/facpubs/10713/ Not a psychologist, not sure what necessarily goes into standardizing.

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Yup! Here are two directly related papers with measurements of empathy: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... digitalcommons.memphis.edu/facpubs/10713/ And two papers that are slightly bigger picture www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... ideas.repec.org/a/rfa/jetsjl...

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Empathy and care within engineering: qualitative perspectives from engineering faculty and practicing engineers

The purpose of this study was to investigate how empathy and care look within an engineering context from the perspective of (1) existing literature (2) engineering faculty and (3) practicing engin...

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Studies show that folks who major in STEM fields tend to score lower on evaluations of empathy. Unanswered q is whether folks with lower levels of empathy choose STEM fields or whether STEM education atrophies it. Here’s why teaching empathy and ethics is important for STEM 🧪 #AcademicSky #philsci

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

To answer the first question, yup! At least according to The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Taylor & Francis, etc. To the second question, I appreciate the rage-baiting. Google scholar is free.

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Fully agree that categories are critical. Which is why a differentiation between various sexes and spectra of gender is imperative. Haven’t fully read the paper and not looking to debate (not my area of expertise), but this article seems to be solid. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Neurobiology of gender identity and sexual orientation

Sexual identity and sexual orientation are independent components of a person’s sexual identity. These dimensions are most often in harmony with each other and with an individual’s genital sex, althou...

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Je n'espère certainement pas l'expulsion des gens eux-mêmes, mais nous devons être prêts à tout

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Censoring the language of science (the pursuit of Truth) to align better with a political ideology sure does seem like fascism. I think it’s on us, the academic/scientific community, to not yield Truth in pursuit of publication. 🧪 #AcademicSky #philsci insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Every safety regulation was written in blood, frequently with a body count higher than one, and it’s not political to put the blame on people who want to “move fast and break things” when they start breaking human lives.

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

One of the unexpected joys of teaching an undergrad dynamics course is solving the homework myself! You mean I get paid to solve problems I know have answer that I can find in a relatively short amount of time?? Not a years long open-ended research problem?? #AcademicSky

A homework solution involving trigonometry and the laws of sines and cosines

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Dr. Christine Beavers @xtalgrrl.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

And it's not just scientists. The US being a world leader in scientific research means that there's a whole industry built around serving the needs of scientists. From consumables to instruments, to people like my cousin who services fume hoods. This is an attack on a true American greatness.

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Who woulda thought that investing in research and education is an overall good, both for humanity and the economy 🤔🤔🤔 #AcademicSky

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

One (1) NSF REU grant supported 3 summers of working with students from engineering to oceanography to industrial and fashion design, introducing them to human-focused rehab engineering. My advisor was a director of the REU site; it solidified my desire to mentor and teach young people 🧪

Several people wearing protective face masks pose stoically looking at the camera. They are 10 undergraduate REU students, one of which is a wheelchair user, along with graduate students and faculty members.

Several people smile behind a roughly 2 foot tall structure of letters reading BMES. There are 6 undergraduate students, one graduate student, and one faculty member.

Several people smile looking at the camera. There are 10 undergraduate students, one graduate student, and 3 faculty members.

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Since I’m new, I’ll shamelessly share some of my work! We demonstrated a method for untangling measurements of a whole-system to be used to predict subsystem dynamic behavior. Each subsystem prediction model can share the same source of whole-system data. 🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1088/2632...

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Global system errors to simultaneously improve the identification of subsystems with mixed data Gaussian process regression - IOPscienceSearch

Global system errors to simultaneously improve the identification of subsystems with mixed data Gaussian process regression, LaMack, Cameron J, Schearer, Eric M

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Interesting read! “…[PhD] candidates in natural sciences and engineering may experience ‘close guidance’ and a ‘hierarchical work environment’, leading them to identify more as a student.” I think there’s strength in the heterogeneity; candidates are LEARNING to be independent #AcademicSky

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Hi Manu! Can I please be added to the science feed? Here is my ORCiD orcid.org/0000-0001-69...

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McNastyPrime @mcnastyprime.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

“Who goes Nazi” from 1941 harpers.org/archive/1941...

Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. They may be the gentle philosopher whose name is in the Blue Book, or Bill from City College to whom democracy gave a chance to design airplanes-you'll never make Nazis out of them. But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success-they would all go Nazi in a crisis.

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Interesting thread on the intersection of science and political agendas

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/01/2025

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

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Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect

Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

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Cameron LaMack @proflamack.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Wow. Just wow. One of the largest funding agencies for health research can’t fund research.

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