In my Chinese primary school, we learned about Marie Curie fighting sexism in science. Meanwhile, Hollywood sold girls the dream of being fashion designers — a borderline scam of a career path. 🧪👩🏻‍🔬

My bf drew our plushie kids 🐧🐻‍❄️🐸🐑🐶🦕 playing in the pond for our anniversary 🩷 #art

5 years ago, I wrote about how blood diamond monopoly De Beers tried to kill lab diamonds by undercutting them with cheap, low-quality lab diamond jewelry: www.cs.toronto.edu/~ming/422_es... That plan failed. Miserably. 🥳 🧪 #EconSky

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My dad scored ~70 on a primary school IQ test. He later ranked in the top 30 out of 1M in one of the hardest Gaokao exams and has been a VP at multiple Fortune 500 companies. Whenever people say IQ tests are fair and objective, I just tell them this story. 🧪

Some heart-warming data: Decades of civil rights reforms significantly reduced the poverty rate of Black Americans. 🧪 #EconSky

Economists know it, but politicians rarely say it—globalization massively reduced global inequality. 🧪 #EconSky

Bf's company is producing a cartoon about the Aztecs, with all the dialogue in Spanish. Bf: The Aztecs didn't speak Spanish. It was the Spanish colonizers who massacred them that did. 🧪 #langsky

Weebs in academia🧪🦠 🔗 doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11081912 #anime #aot

Forbes just hit a new low—promoting someone running an open Ponzi scheme. 🧪 #EconSky

🧪My favorite plagiarism case will always be when my solution, posted in a GitHub issue comment, got copy-pasted into multiple Stack Overflow answers—without a shred of attribution.

Neri Oxman (yes, the Wikipedia plagiarist from MIT Media Lab) had her students build a giant, useless silk pavilion to "explore relationships between digital and biological construction." oxman.com/projects/silk-pavilion-i I chose the wrong career. 🧪

And this is my biggest issue with the anti-consumption movement: Instead of showing how consuming less & saving more helps the economy and environment, it defaults to tEmU bAd takes—while fashion brands, magazines, and Hollywood are the real ones manufacturing demand. 🧪 #EconSky

Ada Lovelace as a new science leader in #Civ7! 👩🏻‍🔬🧪

I've always felt Temu & Amazon get undue hate for selling fast fashion, when the real culprits are fashion brands. They're the ones brainwashing consumers into thinking that constantly buying new clothes is somehow a form of self-empowerment. 🧪 #EconSky

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Chiming in on the DeepSeek situation as a former Dev Lead of a BBC-recognized startup: The sad truth is that tech companies rarely prioritize environmental friendliness. Instead, they burn computing resources on buzzword features to impress investors. Props to them for actual energy-saving. 🧪👩🏻‍🔬

Some funny highlights: 1. Instead of establishing a promised Bitcoin strategic reserve, Trump formed a committee to decide whether to not sell digital assets the government already owns. 2. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) blatantly pumped & dumped on X, pretending to announce a Bitcoin reserve. 🧪 #EconSky

Oda invented a unique pronoun for his gender-fluid character Ivankov. (Source: One Piece Volume 85 SBS, 2017) 🧪💙📚 #linguistics

Sharing this as some around me are eager to try all-natural Chinese herbal meds. One popular remedy for minor ailments, sold by a leading Chinese pharmacy, is potentially linked to 100k liver failure cases in China. The company denied responsibility and has never compensated victims. 🧪 #MedSky

Hot take: Tite Kubo is the greatest artist alive. Not-so-hot take: I'm upset at Naruto 20 after seeing how good Bleach 20 is.

Preprint "Price-fixing in the lab diamond market"💎 The lab-grown diamond industry, initially seen as a force for healthy competition and fair pricing in the diamond market, is now facing its own price-fixing issues. 🧪

The #NoLawns movement deserves more attention and participation. 🧪🌱

Yet another Stanford dropout, whose company supposedly had a renowned Stanford professor as an advisor, turned out to be a narcissistic scammer. 🧪 #AcademicSky

I'm convinced that most people who recommend A Hundred Years of Solitude have never actually read it. 💙📚

Thrilled to share my publication in Linguistics Vanguard! In this paper, I debunked common myths about hashtag popularity and uncovered how hashtag syntax influences its popularity. 🧪 #linguistics

🧪On Wikipedia, Tether attempts to discredit Griffin and Shams's research exposing their market manipulation by misrepresenting subsequent studies.

🧪I created this YouTube Short after researching blood diamond companies and finding it amusing how desperate they are as younger generations stop buying into their corporate propaganda.

🧪Scam crypto project Parallel Finance claims to be advised by renowned Stanford CS prof Dan Boneh. I emailed him about this affiliation but got no response.

Yubo Ruan, CEO of the recently collapsed crypto company Parallel Finance, seems more focused on polishing his Wikipedia page than addressing the users he defrauded. #Crypto

🧪Bitcoin miners face little scrutiny in academia despite their massive waste, zero societal value, and existence solely fueled by opportunistic investors chasing a Ponzi scheme.

My Chinese parents tried an AI tool to turn their profile pics into drawings. The result? A white mom and an Indian dad. My boyfriend: 'Your mom’s does look like her… if she were white.' 🧪

I created this video inspired by Geoffrey Pullum's 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice. It frustrates me that The Elements of Style is still used in academia. As a non-native speaker, I hold a personal grudge against this book because I believe it actually worsened my English writing. 🧪#AcademicSky

🎄Me, Christmas & Pokémon🎄 #art

🧪I’ve always wondered why the FTC never targets LVMH—it seems like an easy win.

Bit annoyed by the praise for this game’s aesthetics—it’s awful. The art style is inconsistent, the 'realistic' models look like generic asset flips, and it feels like a crypto game using Unreal 5 asset flips without understanding basic game design principles. #gamedev #gamedesign

🧪Turned my recent publication into a mini "animation" doi.org/10.1515/ling...

12-year-old still watches Naruto—maybe I’m not that old after all.

🧪Anyone else notice that he's cosplaying as Kakashi? www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/h...

🧪 Actually managed to get this joke published in a prestigious journal😝 doi.org/10.1515/ling...

Canva is an overlooked gem for creating academic presentations🧪 www.cs.toronto.edu/~ming/the_ro...

An overlooked form of misinformation: fake data 🧪 A tweet from a self-proclaimed 'financial analyst' comparing the US and Canada’s GDP per capita has gained 254K impressions, but no one has pointed out that the graph's data is entirely fabricated. For context, I’ve attached the real IMF data.

Hi fellow academics🧪 I created an open-source Material Design template for academic websites and would really appreciate any feedback! github.com/mingfengwan/...

Hi fellow academics🧪 I created a video essay-style presentation of my recent publication and would love your feedback! youtu.be/IstvR2GIk-c