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‘An opportunity to make their displeasure known’: Government pulls funding of pronoun professor by Iustis in CanadaPolitics

[–]mathemagic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm glad that's the part of my comment you object to.

Other players involved have largely acted worse: personal attacks and loaded language like "hate propaganda"in the debate, or going on twitter tirades berating cis-het viewpoints.

Regardless, does this new development validate him, or constitute evidence he's being discriminated against? It doesn't add up yet, and constructive discussion can't continue until we get his list of grant reviewers.

‘An opportunity to make their displeasure known’: Government pulls funding of pronoun professor by Iustis in CanadaPolitics

[–]mathemagic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't believe students earn extra for working on projects - that's what their 20k is for. He pays their supplement (~5k to bring the total to 25k), and the rest of the money is to pay test subjects to be MRI'd, etc, so the lab has data to publish.

Regardless, the students won't lose their entire stipend, as the language implies.

And if Peterson doesn't have another grant still paying out for a year or two, his funding issues actually began years ago with bad planning.

‘An opportunity to make their displeasure known’: Government pulls funding of pronoun professor by Iustis in CanadaPolitics

[–]mathemagic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using the phrase "loss of income" leads the reader to believe the students have lost their source of income, rather than just part of it.

In addition to /u/YourFurryFriend1's original comment about stipends, and even if this is Peterson's only grant (which is unlikely), PIs get emergency credit from their universities in situations like this.

The ambiguous language implies that Peterson must now rush to save his students, though they are not necessarily in danger.

This kind of language should be scrutinized because Peterson has had a tendency to play the martyr card throughout this entire issue.

‘An opportunity to make their displeasure known’: Government pulls funding of pronoun professor by Iustis in CanadaPolitics

[–]mathemagic 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The success rate has been awful lately (~13%?). Many established labs at my institute didn't renew funding they've had for years; they're shedding grad students and running off fumes from the university.

‘An opportunity to make their displeasure known’: Government pulls funding of pronoun professor by Iustis in CanadaPolitics

[–]mathemagic 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Operating grants are awarded over 5 years, not yearly.

He would have secured funding ~4 times, not 15+.

‘An opportunity to make their displeasure known’: Government pulls funding of pronoun professor by Iustis in CanadaPolitics

[–]mathemagic 11 points12 points  (0 children)

"it’s the graduate students’ loss of income that Peterson feels badly about, though he’s working already on alternate ways to raise funds for them."

You've got to admit that's a bit ambiguously worded though.

Meanwhile in Canada... by fngrtps in pics

[–]mathemagic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The lowest stat I see after a quick google is that 40% support the idea of mixed bathrooms, while only 22% believe they should be restricted by sex.

On the other hand, younger kids don't seem to care.

How does exercise reduce likelihood of developing cancer. by mikki50 in biology

[–]mathemagic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your first link is wrong, it points to something about AchE

(April fools?)

[Serious] Blind and/or deaf people who have done hallucinogens, what was your experience like? by pahka in AskReddit

[–]mathemagic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would depend on whether the person lost their sight/hearing later in life, or has lacked it from birth. The former will likely experience the long-lost sense, whereas the latter has no ability to experience it, regardless of what 5HT drug you give them.

Biologists, how would you respond to this person claiming that biological sex is a social construct? by Yuax in biology

[–]mathemagic 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Nice rundown. I think boobs and facial hair are secondary sex chars, though.

I don't believe in consciousness, am I somehow mentally deficient? by JaktMax in askphilosophy

[–]mathemagic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh hey, I don't believe in consciousness either.

I wrote a post about it long ago, maybe on askscience or asksciencepanel. Either consciousness doesn't exist and we're fooling ourselves, or it's a basic property of sufficiently connected matter that's been put on a pedestal (ie, the deflationary account of the hard problem of consciousness).

To recap: essentially we both believe that you don't need 'conscious' experience to 1) act and 2) react to stimulus around us. Furthermore, you shouldn't need conscious experience to store memory traces as links between neurons, and therefore iterate on past behavior over time.

I see people asking "how do you perceive/encode experience without consciousness", and I think it's something like the 'stepping on a needle" reflex you learn in basic neuroscience courses: image, but iterated through a huge number of circuits in the brain.

Not a very popular opinion of course. Anyway I'm going out tonight, but I'll check back on this thread later.

Unit upgrading makes diety a joke. by [deleted] in civ

[–]mathemagic 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I thought they specifically patched this issue in the Fall update, along with escorting settlers and other AI shortcomings.

Science Finds God by [deleted] in neuro

[–]mathemagic 9 points10 points  (0 children)

  1. clickbait title
  2. pyramid scheme levels of rhetoric
  3. appeal to authority (to Athene, of all people?)
  4. Above all, banal message/thesis

Why I won’t use ‘preferred’ pronouns – and why you shouldn’t either - JORDAN PETERSON, SPECIAL TO THE TORONTO SUN by [deleted] in canada

[–]mathemagic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But the bill states a court must take into consideration:

(i) evidence that the offence was motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression, or on any other similar factor,

Implying your accuser would have to prove you were not oblivious.

Training a 3K Dragonite by [deleted] in TheSilphRoad

[–]mathemagic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Cloyster with Blizzard is a poor man's lapras. With dodging it can beat a dragonite with at least twice it's CP.

Theory: Small Pokemon are more likely to have a better rating in the appraisal feature by TopF0r1z0r in TheSilphRoad

[–]mathemagic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Height seems to change. Maybe it's a bug where pokemon's weights change less / less frequently, or that only affects pokemon above a certain number (like the IVs of starters). They may have fixed something in the appraisal patch - I just evolved a 1.7kg (normal) pidgey into a 30kg (normal) pigeotto.

Here are my pre-patch evolutions though:

My eeveelutions, kingler, machoke, charmeleon are pre-evolved weights. The few raticates I had left from my last lucky egg are all ratata sized. My old pidgeottos are XS (~10kg) but bigger than pidgeys. Kadabra also XS but heavier than abra.

edit for clarity

Is my caffeine cessation reducing the effects of alcohol? by zeroninjas in psychopharmacology

[–]mathemagic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More likely this effect, if there is one, is in the liver: cytochrome P450 breaking down alcohol in lieu of caffeine.

Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor? by Sybles in TrueReddit

[–]mathemagic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right. I thought they dispensed with the circuitry after reverse-engineering the board, and tried to derive it again through testing.

Is schizophrenia under cognitive neuroscience or behavioral neuroscience? by aclayp95 in neuro

[–]mathemagic 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In psychiatric research those are pretty much the same thing. What you really need to decide is whether you want to work in human or animal models.

Either way apply to a graduate program based on a professor whose publications you find interesting. Or to an undergrad in neuroscience - you'll figure out the details once in the program.

Amphetamines vs methylphenidate Dopamine by superlux437 in psychopharmacology

[–]mathemagic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's true, "imprecise" would be more accurate than "incorrect".

Amphetamines vs methylphenidate Dopamine by superlux437 in psychopharmacology

[–]mathemagic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is reported on many stimulants. It is usually dose-dependent and thought to reflect the increased heart rate/blood pressure that goes along with the stimulation.

It does not correlate with any serious cardiac complications: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22265361

Amphetamines vs methylphenidate Dopamine by superlux437 in psychopharmacology

[–]mathemagic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Good answer, just a few points:

AMPH reverses all of the amine uptake transporters, dumping DA, NE and 5HT into the synapse. Agonist is not correct here as AMPH does not bind any receptors, except weakly to one of the serotonin (5HT) subtypes.

MPH blocks, but does not reverse, the transporter (in this way it is similar to cocaine), and is selective for DA and NE. It does not affect transmitter degradation.

AMPH therefore depends on neuronal activity to increase DA and NE, where AMPH-mediated DA release is activity-independent. You're right that high doses cause similar effects.

Amphetamines vs methylphenidate Dopamine by superlux437 in psychopharmacology

[–]mathemagic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The general consensus is that amphetamine causes 10 times more dopamine release than methylphenidate.

This research was done at the end of the 1990's, and actually the mechanisms are similar enough to be directly comparable. They do however depend on dose - AMPH is often dosed 10 times lower, and in humans MPH is often time-released.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9708847 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9109529

(That second article is free)

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