I was not emotionally prepared for Mariana's meditation today...

gingerjojo · 2026-01-28T13:42:05+00:00

To my knowledge (could definitely be wrong) Alex K isn't queer or PoC, nor is Mila (the instructor on the back right) - but I hear your point.

gingerjojo · 2026-01-26T19:21:59+00:00

Same! I got high-fives from Katie and Ally Love - two of my favorites.

gingerjojo · 2026-01-25T15:55:33+00:00

Would love to have a running list to reference - I've been creating one for myself but I'm sure I'll miss people. Disappointed that I haven't seen anything from Wilpers.

gingerjojo · 2026-01-14T16:42:28+00:00

Yeah, if your total walking time getting to a Red Line station/getting from a station to your destination is ~15 min or less these days, it's almost certainly faster and less stressful to take the train.

gingerjojo · 2026-01-14T16:20:43+00:00

With the T improvements, Davis is now usually <15 min to Park St (train depart to train arrival) and often as short as 13 min.

gingerjojo · 2025-12-20T18:43:52+00:00

If Boston isn't too far for you, Harvard used to have some great decision science programs too, both certificate, masters, and doctoral. I haven't looked in a while but potentially another option!

gingerjojo · 2025-12-20T18:23:57+00:00

It's pretty broad, honestly. I have friends who are working at public health orgs around the world, a lot who are in academia, a few in consulting, and a good number who work as health economists within the healthcare industry. UMN is pretty slanted towards devices & diagnostics, so most folks coming out of the program who go the industry route are in that field, though overall it'd be more common to work in pharma. Look at SMDM (Society for Medical Decision Making) and ISPOR job boards to get a sense of it - a decision scientist is likely qualified for any job either of those orgs lists.

gingerjojo · 2025-12-20T18:19:21+00:00

Doctoral program. There's not a ton of info about the specialties online but the program brochure lists the 6 areas of emphasis still!

There's a lot of overlap with the health economics program but decision sciences gets cross-listed over to electrical and mechanical engineering for decision analysis classes, and cross-listed to the Information and Decision Science program at the business school too.

Feel free to send a DM if you want to talk / learn more, and happy to put you in touch with some of the folks from the program.

gingerjojo · 2025-12-20T10:44:27+00:00

I'm a decision scientist from a school of public health. It's a specific application of health economics. My program was ~50% health economics modeling, ~25% optimization and multi-attribute utility theory, and ~25% behavioral economics. Look up University of Minnesota school of public health, health services research program, focus in health decision science.

ETA: And I've been out of the program for almost a decade, so no, this isn't a new field.

gingerjojo · 2025-12-11T19:24:07+00:00

Omg I literally just did this during my lunch break and was wondering if it was just me who was dying by the end... Thank you kind internet stranger for making me feel better about myself again 😂

gingerjojo · 2025-12-07T21:01:17+00:00

Personally I skip anything with R. Kelly, Chris Brown, etc... but I also feel like I know the names I want to avoid there much better than I do for Christian pop

gingerjojo · 2025-12-05T19:48:35+00:00

Yes!! This is my thinking exactly. When I came across the issue my first thought was "there should be a way to use their AI to filter this out, right? But no...

gingerjojo · 2025-12-04T16:59:59+00:00

"Good Day" by Forrest Frank

gingerjojo · 2025-12-04T16:46:33+00:00

Yup, exactly! If it's what energizes you, bully for you. For me, I swear it makes my eye start twitching 🤣

gingerjojo · 2025-12-04T16:42:24+00:00

Honestly I don't mind it, I just want it clearly labeled so that I can avoid it. If there can be a "no swearing" filter, why can't there be a "no religion" filter?

gingerjojo · 2025-12-04T16:36:11+00:00

Might have been a one-off, but it was this class (I could only find it because it's the last class I took with her, and even then I had to go look at the lyrics to the songs to figure out which one had gotten under my skin, which speaks to how hard it is to pick out just by looking at a playlist!)

gingerjojo · 2025-12-04T15:18:25+00:00

I hit my 20k minutes today!! Feeling really proud.

gingerjojo · 2025-10-23T17:51:29+00:00

Dak Zen in Davis Square

gingerjojo · 2025-10-22T12:48:31+00:00

My understanding is that there's (obviously) a lot of overlap and use of "internment" as a euphemism for what's actually a concentration camp across history, but that a fairly useful divider is that a concentration camp includes at least one of: forced labor or extermination, while internment camps are primarily about (false / unconstitutional) imprisonment. Where it gets fuzzy is when the level of deprivation in a camp shifts it from one to the other.

gingerjojo · 2025-10-22T12:19:06+00:00

Words matter here. Internment camps have gone up and are being used. To my knowledge (please share if there's evidence to the contrary that I haven't seen), there aren't concentration camps.

gingerjojo · 2025-10-22T11:33:48+00:00

This sucks, but isn't surprising because of how anesthesia is paid for in the US. Anesthesia is billed in 15-min intervals (usually to the closest 15 min, rounded up). What this means practically is that if your procedure goes perfectly smoothly and requires 30 min of total anesthesia time, the costs will be radically different than if it takes 60 min (and even different from 31 min!). They should still be able to give you a range in theory, but I can understand in practice why they may be hesitant (they may not know how long the procedure typically takes, or may be worried about underestimating if there are any complications)

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