u/derrikson

In a survey of finance professionals, women in heavily male-dominated work environments were less willing than men to imagine admitting a mistake. They were also less likely to believe their workplace would treat mistakes as opportunities to learn.

What makes this interesting is that women were not significantly more likely than men to expect negative consequences, yet they were still more reluctant to admit mistakes in male-dominated workplaces.

The researchers suggest that workplace culture and psychological safety may help explain the difference, although the study couldn't establish why it exists.

When students’ own teachers were removed from grading a final exam, the socioeconomic gap in grades narrowed. A new study found that involvement from a teacher who knew the student had increased the gap by 15–20 percent.

There is an intuitive argument for the earlier system: a teacher who knows a student can draw on years of information, while an external examiner sees only one paper.

The problem was that the benefits of this approach were not distributed evenly. Students from more advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, who tended to have stronger previous academic records, were more likely to benefit.

A retrospective study of 81 patients with migraine aura found that aura days fell from an average of 6.9 per month to 1.4 during treatment with lamotrigine.

About 85% of patients had at least a 50% reduction in aura days.

There are important limitations: this was based on clinic records, there was no control group, and lamotrigine is not currently approved specifically for migraine prevention.

Adverse effects were reported by about one in five patients, and five stopped treatment.

The researchers are planning a randomized trial to test the treatment more rigorously.

I run a small independent research publication called HUMANUMi, and I wrote more about the study here:

https://humanumi.com/an-epilepsy-drug-was-linked-to-fewer-migraine-aura-days/

A 12-week exercise study in 52 adults aged 45–65 found that exercising three times a week improved mood, but the study’s primary memory outcome did not significantly improve.

The finding is interesting because exercise is often linked with cognitive benefits, but this relatively short intervention did not produce clear evidence of improved memory in this group.

The sample was small, so the result does not mean exercise has no effect on memory. It does show that mood and memory did not necessarily change together over the three-month period.

I run a small independent research publication called HUMANUMi, and I wrote more about the study here:

https://humanumi.com/three-months-of-exercise-improved-mood-but-not-memory-in-middle-age/

A Finnish twin study looked at whether living conditions and lifestyle from adolescence to early adulthood were linked to biological aging measured from blood at around age 22.

One interesting finding was that higher youth unemployment in the residential area was linked to faster biological aging. Some measures of nearby vegetation were linked to slower aging, although the environmental results were not always straightforward.

This was an observational study, so it can’t show that these conditions caused faster or slower aging. Biological aging was also measured only once, in early adulthood.

I run a small independent research publication called HUMANUMi, and I wrote more about the study here:

https://humanumi.com/new-study-living-conditions-in-youth-are-linked-to-biological-aging/

When digital services are difficult to use, the burden is often placed on the user rather than on the design of the service. The researchers warned that digital public services could reinforce existing inequalities if the needs of more vulnerable groups are not taken into account.

Similar problems have also been reported in other countries.

The problem was not simply a lack of digital skills. Many services were designed around a “typical” user and expected older people to adapt to the system.

The study argues that accessibility depends not only on whether people can use technology, but also on whether services themselves are designed with older people in mind.

I bought an S-1 a while ago and really like it, but I haven't been able to figure out how to make only specific notes glide in a sequence, like on a TB-303.

As far as I can tell, holding a STEP and pressing HOLD creates a longer tied note, and you can then transpose the following step. However, this still doesn't produce a glide, even with Portamento set to Auto.

Am I missing something, or is there a specific way to program 303-style slides on the S-1?

I can record glides when playing live with the pads, but that's not really a practical way to program acid lines.

Any idea?