Main blog: blueyjoy. Joy. She/her. 25+ yo. infp. Ravenclaw. Black French Girl working on a PhD on deep learning for medical imaging. I track #lslemonade.
I love the tags included saying "this won't work for everyone" and you know what? It's true, it might not work for me but I'm going to try that. Thank you!
one of the biggest things I can advocate for (in academia, but also just in life) is to build credibility with yourself. It’s easy to fall into the habit of thinking of yourself as someone who does things last minute or who struggles to start tasks. people will tell you that you just need to build different habits, but I know for me at least the idea of ‘habit’ is sort of abstract and dehumanizing. Credibility is more like ‘I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it, and more importantly I trust myself to do it’. you set an assignment goal for the day and you meet it, and then you feel stronger setting one the next day. You establish a relationship with yourself that’s built on confidence and trust. That in turn starts to erode the barrier of insecurity and perfectionism and makes it easier to start and finish tasks. reframing the narrative as a process of building credibility makes it easier to celebrate each step and recognize how strong your relationship with yourself can become
Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.
Every year, researchers try to predict the four influenza strains that are most likely to be prevalent during the upcoming flu season. And every year, people line up to get their updated vaccine, hoping the researchers formulated the shot correctly.
The same is true of COVID vaccines, which have been reformulated to target sub-variants of the most prevalent strains circulating in the U.S.
This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots, because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a virus. The vaccine, how it works, and a demonstration of its efficacy in mice is described in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“What I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,” said UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai. “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”
Currently screaming inside when I see a react on a Glaze/Nightshade post saying "everything ML is AI these days". Because it's not just these days. It's always been. For further information, people should know: Artificial Intelligence is a big domain that includes Machine Learning which itself includes Deep learning.
AI is more than just a neural network that does its magic.
(But just so you know, the person's point in getting off your computer if you're afraid of AI is not the subject of my judgement here, 'cause if you didn't realize it, AI has been used for a while. I just needed to correct that one small sentence 'cause I can be annoying.)
Me, a day before the end of the conference I went to, not knowing anyone there and barely networking: I'm a small mouse I don't know anyone networking for research is hard I'm a nobody what am I doing here
Me at the end of the conference after a brainstorming session and after finally speaking to other people: I'M A RESEARCHER NOW MY WORK CAN HAVE VALUE.