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Parminder S. Basran, etc.
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Associate Professor @Cornell, White Coats with Black Flags. Radiation, Cancer, Imaging, AI. Noisic. Views my own. 🇨🇦 in Ithaca
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Evolution, revolution, gun control, sound of soul
(Economics, Reaganomics, birth control, the status quo)
Shooting rockets to the moon, kids growing up too soon
The politicians say
And the band played on

youtu.be/NcfXWtI7ML0

#NowPlaying
Love and Rockets - Ball Of Confusion. HD
YouTube video by Beggars Banquet Records
youtu.be
February 22, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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Abstract Submissions for #AAPMCOMP2026 are due in TODAY!

Submit your abstract here: https://ow.ly/2Fw650Y0LoC

Deadline: Tuesday, January 27th at 8:00 PM ET (5:00 PM PT)
January 27, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Not a bad snapshot for whats #playingnow
January 23, 2026 at 3:47 PM
January 10, 2026 at 8:49 PM
A bit late, but here are my favorite spins of 2025 -> blipsbonksandbongos.blogspot.com/2026/01/bobs...

Barker's Stochastic Drift is, without doubt, my favorite release last year.
sambarker.bandcamp.com/album/stocha...

Buy it Direct. Support your local artists and local record stores.

#NowPlaying
Bob's Favourite Spins 2025
Favourite Spins of 2025 Surgeon- Shell~Wave …  deep trance     https://music.apple.com/ca/album/shell-wave/1798967160 Daniel Avery - Tremo...
blipsbonksandbongos.blogspot.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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“Adversarial Poetry, an efficient single-turn general-purpose attack where the poetic structure functions as a high-leverage stylistic adversary.” This is almost too good. arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
arxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
With a little help from some friends…

#medphys
October 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Hearing Cocteau Twins more frequently in coffee shop 20 yrs post release is somewhat validating, and sad that a generation of music listeners just let this band slide past. Maybe GenX has more in common than GenZ than I thought.
October 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
October 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Is it me or did a bunch of NIH grants just vanish over the last month? I thought i should take pulse after a deadline, make a plan for the next few months, and start hunkering down… but when i tried looking up the call… vanished.

How is anyone supposed to prepare for these things?

#academicsky
August 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
One thing you can say about this band is that they beat to their own drum…

👍🏽✊🏽

pitchfork.com/news/godspee...
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Remove Music From Streaming Services
The Canadian post-rock band has pulled its discography from Spotify, Tidal, and Amazon Music, with Apple Music soon to follow
pitchfork.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Tubas never sounded so good.

youtu.be/PMsQh1KkKsY?...
A&W The Great Root Bear (1975)
YouTube video by Retrontario
youtu.be
August 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Just ordered some new coffee mugs for the lab.

Science is an interconnected system- humans, animals, and environments working in tandem.

"Science means everyone and everything” means science should be deliberately collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and benefit not only people, but everything else.
August 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
#NowPlaying

The music of the lords.
August 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Too much nerd on?
July 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Prepping for Canadian night out
#AAPM2025
July 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It was the last in person summer lab meeting and the team served me up a royal roast.

I start our meeting with a QOTD= question of the day. These are simple as “Whats your favourite movie” to weird inane ones like “What’s the worst thing to unexpectedly find growing in your belly button?”

…
1/n
July 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Carnage
July 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Thank you for your attention to this backscatter
July 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
After +20 years of Institutional Clinical Medical Physics … at an age when i found grey hair on places that don’t grow hair, switching to the madness and uncertainty of a tenure track position …
July 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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July 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Fido is complete! We have a zoomorphic phantom from the tip of the nose to the end of the lungs for high precision, radiotherapy measurements and calculations!

Stay tuned!

#medphys
July 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Oh! Here is a thought! How about shifting the conversation from latest hype cycle AI buzzwords (E.g. Agentic AI) and instead to demanding that health information systems live up to the promises made 20 years ago?

I can’t prove this but I would guess better workflows >> 3rd party AI agents
July 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Last slice of FIDO being printed! Watch for some mindlessness, and message me if it goes horribly wrong

www.youtube.com/live/0EtGLla...
slice 10
YouTube video by VaiderLab-WhatsPrinting
www.youtube.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM