Dr. Jens Foell

@fMRI_guy

Neuropsych PhD & one of the . Co-founder of . Studies phantom limbs & more. German in US. Husband & Dad. editor. TEDx speaker.

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Joined March 2014

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    22 Apr 2016

    Reminder: if it requires the widespread deliberate suppression of information by scientists of the world to be true, it most probably isn't.

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  2. 3 hours ago

    Is everyone having a happy new year so far? Because I believe I told you to do so recently, so now I just want to follow up on it. If it hasn’t been done so far, please use this message as a reminder to have a happy new year at your earliest convenience.

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  3. 15 hours ago

    Because it used to be, if a ship had a Havarie at sea and goods were lost, it was hard to determine individual damage for every customer who had sent something on the vessel. So to simplify things, everyone was expected to pay the Haverage, i.e., (h)average value of the shipment.

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  4. 15 hours ago

    Another German word that I’m trying to establish in the US: a Havarie is damage to a transport vessel. You could say “they did get the wedding invitation, but there was a Havarie”, meaning it got damaged along the way. Fun fact: you already use a variation of this word —

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  5. 15 hours ago

    Anyway, I guess that linked news item about historic and catastrophic hacks is also somewhat interesting.

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  6. 15 hours ago

    This is not relevant here, but super-GAU is such a useful word: GAU is an abbreviation for “biggest assumable accident” in German — basically the worst plausible scenario. Thus, a super-GAU is an event that transcends what had been considered the plausible worst case.

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  7. 16 hours ago

    It’s like the scene with the EPA guy in Ghostbusters.

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  8. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    I'm thrilled, ecstatic almost, that is starting Wikipedia Topic Pages in physics, under leadership of -- those give Wikipedia authors credit as their articles get published with a doi/citations in PLOS ONE

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  10. 22 hours ago

    I was today years old when I learned that weights shaped like ducks were common in ancient Mesopotamia, for some reason. (Please consider this a for , because mind-blowing Mesopotamia facts)

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  11. Retweeted
    22 hours ago

    PSA: Being wrong in science is not a bug, it's a feature.

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  12. 22 hours ago

    Still surprised that I don't see anyone talking about how Trump's motivation for insisting on that wall is very clearly personal enrichment.

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  13. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    Guericke's unicorn at the Natural History Museum in (Germany). Otto von Guericke, by then mayor of Magdeburg, interpretated bones of a woolly rhinoceros as those of a and presented this reconstruction in 1672.

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  14. Jan 4

    Any experts on temporal lobe epilepsy here, particularly regarding treatment & prognosis?

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  15. Jan 4

    I don't understand the 'm***erf***er' controversy -- what's the use of a swearing-in ceremony without actual swearing?

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  16. Jan 4

    With the Spawn movie being the last holdout, and still no release date being announced for it even though it's supposed to come out this year, I think this tweet will prove to be prophetic.

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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 4
    Replying to

    You should put “Bear with me, I swear I have a point” on a t-shirt.

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  18. Jan 4

    It also helps as a reality check for how to deal with right-wing outrage: Would it have helped if the game held back? No. Would it help if AOC appeased the right in any reasonable way? No. Their outrage would be exactly the same. So, in summary: be yourself, . /end

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  19. Jan 4

    My interpretation of them booing her (but nobody else who does the same thing as her), and them being confused by a dancing video, is that free-floating outrage is in full effect. The question is now whether AOC's reasonable reactions to these things will make it better or worse.

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  20. Jan 4

    We see a similar reaction to Ocasio-Cortez: of course her win upsets some on the right (due to her background, age, gender, ethnicity). But as their outrage is stronger than these things would justify, they make up all kinds of nonsense about her past or her political views. 7/

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  21. Jan 4

    This made me realize the dynamics of what I'll call free-floating outrage: of course the right was irritated by the game, but the irritation was stronger than the game could justify. So, in an effort to reduce cognitive dissonance, they confabulated facts. 6/

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