Making assistive tech at @MITMechE. 2x heart surgery champ. Technically part cow.
Cambridge, MA
Joined June 2015
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I'm glad we're figuring out that creating works of art is actually easy for machines and the thing that makes humans special is loading and unloading a dishwasher
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Grad student @StephanStans has been accepted into the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Stansfield works with Professor Neville Hogan on investigating the biomechanics and neuroscience behind human manipulation of complex objects as well as human-robot interaction.
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hope everyone had a nice opening day. i spent the day re-reading the wikipedia entry for rube waddell, my favorite player of all time.
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A presentation I did for our PhD students today on productivity during a pandemic...
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On 10/26 I predicted a version of what is unfolding in the Capital today. I wasn't alone. Scientists & experts have warned for months (years) of the powder keg brewing in our information ecosystem. How does this happen & how can we stop it? Read on👇🏽link.medium.com/maKhkqBRPcb
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Today I spotted Koronon, a new anti-coronavirus cat, handing out masks in Tokyo.
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I had a Covid-19 test today as a symptomatic individual in Massachusetts. Things went well... except when they went terribly.
Here are my key takeaways on the process & the dangers I didn’t expect: (1/13)
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“We often call on technology to help solve problems. But when society defines, frames, and represents people of color as ‘the problem,’ those solutions often do more harm than good,” writes professor Charlton McIlwain. bit.ly/2Yff94E
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Many of my white colleagues have been asking what they can do. This👇🏽 you can do this. #Strike4BlackLives recognize that academia perpetuates systemic racism and systemic oppression. #ShutDownSTEM and #ShutDownAcademia on June 10th. Stop doing business as usual. Join us!
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“man I don’t know how the Imagineers are going to get out of this one!!” —me at the end of every episode of The Imagineering Story on Disney+
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Real amputee Jedi?! YES! #cosplay LOVING my lightsaber attachment for my bionic arm while trying to safely keep my fingers crossed for an audition for @starwars one day. #BionicActress Spent my whole life wanting to be Luke AND Leia 😍 @HamillHimself #RepresentationMatters
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I'll shout it from the rooftops forever: 📢 SCIENTISTS! ARE! FUNNY! TOOOOOO! 📢
Just published in @PLOSONE!! Meet Mini, the newest genus of frogs from Madagascar!! With three new species: Mini mum, Mini scule, and Mini ature, because I am HILARIOUS.
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#MiniFrogs #NewSpecies #Miniaturisation #science
