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This is what my paranoid schizophrenia is like

Yesterday, collaborators and I were trying to work out why a peak in a certain curve had shifted. I had separately done a calibration to…

May 18, 2023

May 18, 2023

Schizophrenic Professor Number Infinity

The great thing about doing “useless” science: you don’t have to worry about making the atomic bomb

At the risk of losing all future funding, I want to tell you about what happened at the end of a grant with the Air Force Office of…

2d ago

2d ago

Schizophrenic Professor Number Infinity

What neuroscience tells us about being a good person — make sure you know how you suck

I read Thinking, Fast and Slow a while back. It was written by a Nobel Prize winner, Daniel Kahneman, who died. But the book is going to…

3d ago

3d ago

Schizophrenic Professor Number Infinity

Third day back and I have to leave for the day two hours in

At least I got a Project Summary for the NSF CAREER proposal written. And then the voices told me that I was talentless.

4d ago

4d ago

Schizophrenic Professor Number Infinity

Publishing something that may not be quite right

I’m about to publish something that may be a little bit wrong. I said there was transient chaos — or, more correctly, after some voice…

May 27

May 27

Schizophrenic Professor Number Infinity

My voices have confirmation bias, at least

I just grabbed the book May Contain Lies: How stories, statistics, and studies exploit our biases — and what we can do about it by Alex…

May 27

May 27

Schizophrenic Professor Number Infinity

The lazy person’s guide to wedding planning

The sadness in my Dad’s voice when I explained to him that my wedding was a “wedding from a menu”, a “cookie cutter wedding”, could just be…

May 25

May 25

Schizophrenic Professor Number Infinity

Effective accelerationism scares me for what it might be willing to stupidly do

By now, everyone knows about effective altruism. It’s a good idea — basically, we should spend our money and time in a way so as to…

May 19

May 19

Schizophrenic Professor Number Infinity

I feel like it’s hard to be a female in STEM, but what if my emotions are wrong?

When I was being trained in graduate school, Frances Hellman — a well-known professor at U.C. Berkeley in physics — said something…

May 17

May 17

Schizophrenic Professor Number Infinity

No, we should not just do pot

I’ve had it up to here with a supposedly reputable blog (Psychology Today) publishing articles, seemingly supported by science, on just how…

May 15

May 15

Schizophrenic Professor Number Infinity

Schizophrenic Professor Number Infinity

I am a professor of physics who — when she has a work-life balance — likes to write and play music and bake. I have schizophrenia and it sucks.

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