Megan Donahue

@JoyceCarolOates The interesting thing he said was that I would not feel the needle once it was in, like a pinch. Imagine my surprise when it felt like a nail gun and the nerves zapped my back

@JoyceCarolOates My recommendation would be to ask the biopsy Dr to use way more than they think. Nerves and tumors may change the “norms”. My first biopsy was excruciating, my second (where they set the wires) they used a lot more agent, gave me more time, was not awful, although stressful

warning to women: a friend had a mammogram that required follow-up with an MRI-directed mammogram / something called a "needle biopsy." it was administered without anesthesia & was the most excruciating pain she'd ever endured; she vomited, fainted, could not continue. curtly she was told "we don't do anesthesia for this procedure."

@ElenaPewtress @JoyceCarolOates I’m not resistant to lidocaine nor do I have low pain tolerance. I gave birth with zero pain killers twice. They told me they only numb the surface because I wouldn’t feel the rest. They were so fucking wrong I almost tore my own head off and the words I screamed.

@JoyceCarolOates Not to be insensitive but I've participated in these procedures. Anesthesia is not needed for this. Lidocaine is usually used for breast biopsy procedures. It could be your friend is not sensitive to it or enough wasn't used. Or, she has a very low pain tolerance.

@DennyNorth Check out the concept of reference frames in relativity. In the reference frame of the events, “clocks” tick at the same rate. Someone falling into a black hole would experience very normal time. Their watches etc would neither speed up or slow down.

@astrophysics Oh, so time could have been slower in the first second of the Big Bang? Glad you’re on the job, thanks.

A Practical Guide to Hosting a Virtual Conference galacticatmospheres.pubpub.org/pub/halo21 A best-suggestions guide for on-line science conferences from a successful and productive on-line astronomy conference! Congratulations, Cameron, Ben, Jessica, Mark for a great experience

@soychotic What if we started with someone else’s TRS-80?

Can someone do a correlation study on kids who were started with mac computers versus windows pcs and tech illiteracy or even just general problem solving skills because I have a Hypothesis

Just because it’s free doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck I’m just saying Time is money too

@MetalShayne2000 Jamie’s Crying takes it up a notch and makes fun of teenage girl that won’t put out. But the subtext of some of these songs is what a complete and total loser the protagonist is

The actual worst genre of rock song is “I want to have sex with a teen girl” and there are a lot of them.

@5d_human Gravitational redshift by gravity is real. But the gravitational pull by stars or even dark matter isn’t enough to explain cosmological redshifts size or their correlation with distance metrics like brightnesses of standard candles and the angular sizes of standard rulers.

Definitely the coolest Astro detective story this week!! (I can leave so wiggle room in my grading scale, just like skating judges…) but how awesome is this? 🫨 Zoozve!!!!!

@jegpeek @astrogrant Too soon, and I agree. Even the Astro decadal report was delayed, a mid term review would be a huge waste of volunteer time.

@astrogrant is the mid-decadal ... happening?

remember when I was obsessed with what Astro2020 would say, believing THAT was the load-bearing pillar on which Astronomy's future rested? that was funny, oh you sweet summer child, as the mid-decadal meets in the long dark night & speaks only of the cold x.com/astrogrant/sta…

I console myself that at least one of the selected probe concepts is for X-ray astronomy, ok And I yeet , a neat backflip in to the Sun, to Jimi Hendrix channeled by Stevie Ray Vaughn SRVs 70th bday would have been today I need some time to be 😔 and 🎸

@astrogrant Where is the feed?

Stand by for news, as they say...

@JonArenberg I know. I was 😭🥺

That is very disappointing.

@astrogrant Nawp. The weather ain’t right yet. 👩‍🌾

btw I'm not leaking some huge SMD secret here, APD has been clear that the competitive Phase A announcement is coming in Q4 and, well, the leaves are falling in the north. 🍂🍁

Probe announcement imminent 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

@DrBrianKeating How to swim How to say no

Things to teach your teenager Compound interest/rule of 72 Positive feedback loops Supply and demand Zeno’s paradox Occam’s razor Add your own👇

Pretty substandard 2-day avocados, @WholFoods Bleck

@astrogrant Hawk & Dove. Good to know. 😂

The least plausible aspect of many conspiracy theories is implication we have state capacity to guard a shocking/huge secret for any meaningful length of time. If the U.S. were in possession of an alien spacecraft, it would probably quickly leak over two beers at the Hawk & Dove.

@hannah_flom The best runzas are the original, we know this. Everything else is just pretending it’s a Runza, dangitall.

Couldn't be more of a stark contrast

@ChrisMihos I like author-style to learn at least some new names

I gotta say I find that journal articles that use author-style referencing ("Violets are blue (Beauregard et al 2004)") to be *infinitely* more readable than number-style referencing ("Roses are red [1,2]").