Doing an interview with the BBC to promote my upcoming musical “Allegiance” in London.
This is my legacy project, the work I am most proud of and am most eager to share with UK audiences. It tells the story of our community, when 120,000 Japanese Americans were put into barbed wire prison camps during WWII because we resembled the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
Allegiance is a celebration of the human spirit over adversity. #NeverForget
For tickets visit: https://allegiancemusical.com
So, we finally got to adding me to the team's page of the company. I kinda like my picture there but I fear it might not fit in well with the others... thoughts?
Good God, I'm watching the England v Iran game and I cannot believe that football has so far to go in terms of player safety.
The Iranian goalkeeper looked unwell, probably concussed, confused, and unsteady on his feet yet was allowed to play on!
The usual complaint is that players get paid too much, but surely there's also a duty of care towards the players. This guy should not have been allowed to play.
Well, lets see if they care anymore if I expose this shit on twitter. If you have an account there feel free to show some support:
Almost 180k new users joined #mastodon yesterday, a new record. This third #twitterMigration wave happened after Musk's Twitter 2.0 ultimatum to #Twitter workers. Each wave is stronger than the previous one. Here is my updated plot showing the three consecutive waves.
art moment
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Children’s Games, 1560
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Vienna, Austria
Mastodon Day
Friday November 18, 2022 - An Incredible Day In Internet History
You were here.
It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users an hour. Almost a quarter million migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.
It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.
On my dog walk this morning, in glorious autumn sunlight, surrounded by trees & silence, the soundtrack in my head (not my ears, I don’t listen to stuff on a device when I walk) was Abdullah Ibrahim, remembering Tuesday’s glorious #LondonJazzFestival concert at the Barbican. He played solo piano without pause for 80mins or so, & it felt like just 20mins. #Jazz #AbdullahIbrahim
Did you know there was a Manchester Mastadon server @rickogden ?
The Surgeons' Hall Riot happened #OTD in 1870. The Edinburgh Seven arrived at Surgeons' Hall to sit their anatomy exam and were met by a crowd of male students and several hundred onlookers who opposed of women studying medicine. Not to be deterred the women went on to sit their exam.
After not being allowed to graduate at the time the group were posthumously awarded their medical degrees from Edinburgh University in 2019.
#womeninstem #womeninmedicine #histmed #medhist #surgery #edinburgh
A team of #researchers mapping a #molecular atlas for ductal carcinoma in situ (#DCIS) has made a major advance toward distinguishing whether the early pre-cancers in the #breast will develop into invasive #cancers or remain stable.
#BreastCancer #Medical #Biology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2022/11/med11192201.html
World Science Forum 2022 Media for Social Justice Fellowships
Support and promote science from the 'global south.'
One of WSF2022’s main objectives is to support the profession of science journalism in these quite difficult economic times. In the ‘global south’, where issues of importance to local, national and regional peoples are often a ‘hard sell’ at the global level and lack media coverage, the WSF2022 theme of “Science for Social Justice” strikes a definite chord.
Learn more about it here:
Science for Social Justice: On the Road to the World Science Forum, Cape Town, 6 – 9 December, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RICTV804g4
To all working on #consciousness as a scientist or philosopher:
Please consider adding yourself to this list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bStcCdMCxxLIjdQBhIpTvH3OdvxgW-GRAe-9lwualw0/edit?usp=sharing
Should hopefully make it easier for all of us to connect!
#consciousness_studies #philosophy_of_mind
#mathematical_consciousness_science #consciousness_and_AI
Thanks to @gmusser for pitching the idea! (Any problems with the implementation are entirely on me though 😉.)
My interests/passions include theatre, physiotherapy, neurology, music, singing in a classical chorus, reading books, lively debate, dogs…