#day job

[grison-in-space]

Okay so. So decomposing executive function problems, and the things people grapple with, is a thing that I've been chewing over lately. We talk a lot on Tumblr about executive dysfunction but that's a pretty broad category of brain no worky good, and I'm honestly really curious: for other folks who struggle with executive dysfunction, which specific function causes the most problems for you day to day?

If you have more than one thing you struggle with, pick the one that causes you the most problems day to day.

#Executive function #Executive dysfunction #actually autistic #actually adhd #adhd #day job #working on a grant #Ptsd #Cptsd #ocd #dysfunction junction

[phantomarine]

For those who didn’t follow me from Twitter, you might not know that I’m a CG/VFX character animator by day. Here are all the movies I’ve worked on!

Captain America: Winter Soldier - digi-double stuff on the quinjet bridge fight, lots of shield bouncing animation

Sausage Party - too many things to mention, all of them suitably unspeakable

Surf’s Up 2: WaveMania - I animated the Fish Milk scene (and I’m sorry)

Hotel Transylvania 3 - lots of random shots here and there, biggest one is the dog running up the kraken tentacle at the end

Aquaman - more digidouble stuff, sharks and fish and Atlantean machines

Pokémon: Detective Pikachu - the Mr Mime scene of him putting out the match, some Mewtwo fight scene stuff, crowd animation

Sonic the Hedgehog - uncredited work on the original version

I pivoted to cute kids TV animation a few years ago so no more movies for me (probably) but it’s been a ride! And having a webcomic to work on has kept me sane throughout~

#character animator #animation #vfx animation #cg animation #day job

[guavajagular]

Sup. Watch my friend's new animated show and make Rico the new bara trend

#Day Job #abc iview #Australian animation #Youtube

[toadlett]

Hey if you're able to access your local library, do me a favour and use it. I guarantee they'll have services or events that might be useful or interesting. At the very least its a chill place that's always free to hang out.

#thoughts #day job #I'll fight anyone who says libraries are obsolete or old fashioned i will fight you with my strong arms from lifting books

[eastaltus]

#comics #webcomics #comic #dogs #comics on tumblr #cartoon #instacomic #floral #florets #eastaltus #day job

[thorfireball]

You know the song I would love, a song that has similar vibes to this is home by cavetown, Day Job by Emerson Brophy, Passing through by Kaden MacKay, with a bit BDG existentialism; about being trans fem

You know I just think that would be neet

#music #songs #hypothetical songs #trans fem #trans #transgender #passing though #Day Job #this is home #cavetown #kaden mackay #Emerson Brophy #brian david gilbert #bdg

[drunkenskunk]

Meanwhile, back at the Day Job...

It isn't even 6:30 am, and... yeah, it's already one of Those Days.

#drunk skunk #meanwhile #Day Job #now listening #Linkin Park #Hybrid Theory #Papercut

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

How's your research/day job going and can you tell us a bit about what you're working on?

So, I'm working right now on studying how birds changed in response to the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum

problem is, a lot of Cenozoic birds were found ages ago and then thrown into museum drawers and never thought about again

so I've mainly been contending with terrible science practices by dead men and cussing them out at my desk

I also am trying to learn how to use arcgis fast enough to get some graphs going by mid october so that's fun

and then on the teaching end, my students continue to impress me with how bad they are at reading instructions. even when I beg them to during class. Twice.

#day job #life of a paleontologist #research #phd life

[frenchtoastcomix]

#watercolor #theater #theatre #watercolour #day job #kids #stage crew

[technicallywrite]

Cosmosgate status update Feb 2024

It’s been two weeks since chapter 41 went out, aka Cosmosmut, although I’ve been told it is not in fact smut, but erotica, so, my most sincere apologies there.

I’m woefully behind on responding to all the amazing and lovely comments I received, but I do still plan to reply to every single one as always, as soon as I’m able, which will probably be this weekend.

As for chapter 42, I suspect it’s going to take another two weeks before it’s ready. I’ve been traveling a lot for work and haven’t been able to devote as much time as usual to writing, sadly; but unlike Cosmosgate, my day job actually pays the bills, so I do have to, you know, do that.

Bottom line is, hang on in there, it’s coming soon.

And so is Osgood.

#kate stewart #petronella osgood #osgate #cosmosgate #fanfic #doctor who #kate stewart x petronella osgood #writer life #osgood #coming soon #after the work thing #day job #ugh #but there you go #actually I like my job #its pretty cool #love it

[grison-in-space]

So the thing I didn't mention in that poll I published yesterday is that the motor initiation piece that is, at the time of this writing, absolutely sweeping the poll as the Worst Thing people struggle with?

It's the specific thing I'm trying to pull together a grant for, perhaps unsurprisingly. But it's also the only one that actually isn't classically conceptualized as executive function. (I know, I know, that feels stupid to me, too.)

See, formally speaking, we describe executive function in terms of higher-order cognitive processes that allow us to complete complex tasks. There is a lot of work on, for example, "set shifting" (which is a particular paradigm for studying the ability to transition between different frames of mind, essentially; it's measuring cognitive flexibility) and on action inhibition / impulse control. (One of my colleagues works on set shifting, in fact, and I might actually take a look at that later.) We also have a lot of work on how individuals make decisions and prioritize conflicting needs.

But the transition between motivation and motion is a lot harder to study, and it doesn't fit so neatly into this top down paradigm, either. Most of the people who study this kind of movement initiation are people who aren't really focused on executive function per se at all. They're mostly people who work on Parkinson's, in fact.

The problem is that the best way to untangle how these systems work is to break specific things and see what impact that has on the overall function, and that means working with animal models. You know what we can't study as easily with animal models? Wanting to move and not being able to initiate self-paced motion—that is, we can't get inside an animal's head to understand what it wants to do in the absence of a moving body to indicate that thing. This is part of why many of our best studied kinds of executive dysfunction involve not doing a thing, rather than doing it: that way you can look at error rates and study a measurable change in behavior.

There are things we can do, though. For example, you can disentangle motivation versus pleasure in a rat that enjoys things but has no motivation to make them happen by asking questions like: I know that rats like water with sugar in it. If I set up a device that squirts a trickle of sugar water into the mouth of the rat, does it close its mouth? What facial expressions does it make? If I put bitrex in the water instead of sugar, does the reaction change? (Yes, emphatically.)

The thing is, motivation is regulated by dopamine... and so is movement. There's good reason to think that neurodevelopmental disorders like ADHD and autism are mediated by weird dopamine signaling patterns, and we certainly know that there is a direct relationship between abnormally high dopamine signaling and schizophrenia symptoms... and that abnormally low dopamine will give you Parkinsonian tremors.

Most stimulant meds for ADHD work by upregulating dopamine signaling, too. All of them are associated with increased locomotor activity, among other things. We know that dopaminergic signaling precedes actions in the body, too: you get firing before the actual motion happens.

Somewhere there is a threshold of motion initiation that is getting fuckily disconnected. I have some thoughts about where it is, but I definitely need to run some experiments to check my hypotheses against evidence.

#Executive function #Neurodivergence #autism #I have got to make myself some canonical tasks here #Tags not tasks #Animal research #Day job #Neuroscience

[smallgodseries]

[image description: A middle-aged man stands in a garage wearing a wrinkled blue work shirt, with a patch that says ‘Len’. His arms are crossed and he holds a ‘RIGID’ monkey-wrench. Behind him, a sign reads ‘SPEEDY LUBING’. Text reads, “113, Len ~ Small God of the Day Job”]

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There is no shame in an honest day’s work.  No reason to lower your eyes and refuse to answer when someone asked you what you did for a living; no reason to feel like wiping a counter or turning a wrench made you somehow lesser, made you somehow inferior.  Len knows all who labor, whatever color their collar happens to be, and he loves them all with equal grace.  White collar, blue collar, the occasional butcher or surgeon who considers themselves blurred all the way into red collar, they are all his children.

He also loves those who aspire to leave his grace, the artists and authors who dream of making their muse their master, riding their passion all the way to plenty; the ones who dream with genuine delight of the day they can marry and retire, staying home to raise a family, doing the hard work of education and nurturing while someone else serves in Len’s temples.  He loves them knowing they want nothing more than to leave him behind, one more forgotten god on a life path littered with unneeded theologies and thrown-aside prayers.

He has room for them all, and he knows there will always be another, because there is always work to be done, and always hands to do it.  He would prefer that all who work beneath his banner be there of their own free will.  He knows that isn’t the case, and those are the only prayers that he regrets.  The compelled.  The captive.  The nonconsensual.  He cannot free them from his temples, must depend on human hands to untie the knots and undo the locks, but he can hope for them, and he can answer them as kindly as his nature allows.

Len loves the workers.  Len loves the union man.  And Len loves an unvoided warranty.  Take care of what you own, Len begs, or be without.

Len loves you, too.

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#Small Gods #smallgodseries #Seanan McGuire #Lee Moyer #icons and stories #day job

[rainyfestivalsweets]

Trying really hard to not quit my job right now.

God, the fantasy of quitting is exciting and alluring.

Oh my god.

I could sleep in. Get up. Workout. Casual breakfast. Hang with mom. Relaxed lunch. Read and watch movies with mom. Not worry about FMLA or appointments.

I also wouldn't have any money, health insurance, or retirement.

Fuck me 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

#work stress #work from home #work at home #work life #work #burnt out #corporation #corporate jobs #jobs #day job #stress relief #stress #stressed #stress management #micromanagement #bad management

[bambeezi]

My day job ain’t so bad

#coffee #day job #gaming #gamedevelopment #life #controller #moody aesthetic

[eastaltus]

#comics #webcomics #comic #dogs #comics on tumblr #cartoon #instacomic #floral #florets #eastaltus #day job

[sleepylion]

Day Job (Ep 3) | Fresh Blood | ABC TV + iview

#youtube #ABC TV + iview #Fresh Blood #Day Job #animation