These days I realised I might be a monster, who was raised in the struggles and trauma from the patriarchal world. But I'm not going to shut up. My feeling is valid, so as all the other Asian women.
Alternatively, you can also check out this quick altough not perfect summary when my ex colleague suddenly "testing" my ability of Science Communication :)
In one word: it's cool and fun, I promise. Read it please! osf.io/preprints/os...
By essentially letting LLMs “think aloud,” we uncover clearer emotional groupings and a tighter match with human ratings. Our findings could advance not just computational methods, but also clinical and translational research. #AffectiveComputing #Psychology
Modeling Emotion needs context!
My first project since I moved to new institute #NIBB is now out as a preprint! doi.org/10.31219/osf...
A fun side project with real scientific impact! We tackle a classic emotion-modeling challenge by applying #LLMs with a context-driven twist.
(3) 🐱but one of the sweetest part to me of this paper, is that I managed to include my beloved cat Tiny, who passed away during this long publication journey, in the acknowledgments. Isn't this one of the few sparkling freedoms left in the drawing academia...
(2) 🔊 How do bilingual children process speech sounds? Our study of 138 Singapore kindergarteners reveals: phoneme identification skills remain stable regardless of their relative exposure to English vs Chinese.
🎮 Excited to share my new paper done with the awesome BLIPlab back in NTU Singapore! We made phoneme testing fun for children with our CROWN game - measuring how young bilinguals perceive speech sounds in Singapore. Studied 138 bilingual children! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #openscience
How to fight after-lunch food coma? Here's my answer 🔽 A yoga mat in the lab is highly recommended 🧘♀️🔬 Quick stretches or power naps between meetings. Game changer. Share your energy boosters. Or energy killer, whatever. we don't have to be awake in the office anyways 💁♀️
In this sense I feel Japan's cutoff line expresses a more relaxed research spirit, offering more chances to find everyone's true research enthusiasm. Now, as an early career researcher in this part of the world, I'm waiting for the outcome of my second, but in a way first own, project grant
But isn't it weird? After a PhD we are usually hired by someone else's project, yet still within 5 years we are expected to build up a big project of our own that can be qualified as an "early career" project... especially in some countries (like SG) only very few grants eligible for postdocs[2]
FB reminded me that 5 years ago today was my graduation day! So soon I've passed my "early career period" in some parts of the world... But before I "expired," I transferred to Japan, where an "early career researcher" was considered to be within 8 years of graduation. Phew~[1]
Today is like a Monday to me after a long weekend. This Monday was Umi no Hi (海の日) in Japan, established in 1996 for celebrating the sea. However, I spent my day in the "mountain" on a lead climbing trip ;) Guess will we have a "mountain's day" soon?
#UmiNoHi #JapaneseHolidays #ScientistsWhoClimb
Going to the #NEURO2024 日本神経科学大会in Fukuoka with the lab. No presentation this time, just enjoying my first conference in JP. Anyone? neuro2024.jnss.org
Reflecting on research in JP vs SG: While gender balance is a challenge here, the environment feels more liberal. Scientists express personalities freely. In SG, research felt like just another office job, but here it's a creative space. These small freedoms make a big difference. 🔬🇯🇵
Introducing our lab's pet, a bichir. Some labs here in my institute have lab pets, unrelated to research, just expressing researchers' hobbies. This cutie loves interacting with people. This add a personal touch, making the workspace feel alive. #LabLife #ScienceInJapan
Gert and Mikako is in the Glasgow one
Before I moved to Japan the whole southeast Asian was hit by a 40-45degree heat attack...it's haunting us..guess it's worth there your side as most of the facility has not aircon? Stay sane!
Almost 40 degrees here in my small JP town too (and definitely 40 in Tokyo). What is wrong??
Is that Glasgow? did you see @enactedmind.bsky.social ?
At first all I thought was that Japan must've done girls wrong. But now they're also actively supporting women in STEM. So complex situation: challenges, but also opportunities for change, and good change for women researchers ;)
Did you know while many developed countries struggle with boys underperforming in school, Japan faces the opposite situation. It's working to boost girls' performance and confidence in STEM subjects. Oufff/ And in PISA 2018, Japanese boys outscored girls by 10 points in math. #GenderEquality
I’m back! Just a quick update I moved to JP, as SA Assistant Professor in National Institute for Basic Biology. Settled in well, PI is nice and supporting. Women researchers is a shockingly few as a biology institute, but hey this is my Asia, I knew how suck it is, I'm back to make the change I can
Absolutely love all the European job posts that only post in their own languages. Very efficient way to send the information "we don't want to be international at all".
A beautiful sunny weekend morning, I'm writing review comments for a paper, doing volunteering work for journals that earn money from both authors and readers, being slaved for free by the academic system. Fuck this system.
New position day2. No red flag so far.
Looks like I can lay down for a bit but the other staff busy as fk (he emails me at 9pm) so maybe my good time won't be long.
The office is always shaking for some reason.
Anyways.
Google Scholar: Stand on the shoulder of giants!
-But not for free, pay for very expensive ladders first.
They forgot this second line.
And cuddle the cats more! 😺
send me the draft?
is this the theory paper?
Thanks Germans for posting everything in just German.