Shan Kothari

@shankothari.bsky.social

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Assistant professor at University of Alberta. Forest ecology + tree physiology. he/il

Wedgwood jasperware dish
giant bowl-shaped khakhra... obviously
Tank on a truck that says "Saddam Husain Water Supply" in painted letters
"The reason an LLM can answer a factual question is because someone has posted text on that specific question."
A photo of the interior of HUB Mall at University of Alberta
I have 666 citations
Kalidasa, but across the Kalapani Probably with a Khalistani mommy high as I'll be Das Racist on a roll like wasabi I don't know what these two are, I'm Punjabi More cash mommy than Mukesh Ambani And Anil Ambani, yeah, that's real Armani
My NYT top 21st c movies ballot (Les triplettes de Belleville, Get Out, The Wind Rises, Syndromes and a Century, Aftersun, Universal Language, Parasite, Inside Llewyn Davis, Tár, Zama)
Headline reporting that an amateur conductor is paying the Toronto Symphony to lead a Mahler performance
Cover of Diamond Jubilee by Cindy Lee
The 11th-century Arabic text on decipherment, The Book of Mad Desire for the Knowledge of Written Symbols, grasped something of this fact.
These are all non-descript beige apartment buildings
a whiteboard with a question up top, "which book character would you like as a BFF?"
Bar graph showing that dairy milk has the greatest environmental impact of milks over four dimensions of impact
In the lower left-hand corner of the inscription, Weni stands in the position of respect with one hand placed on the opposite shoulder, looking back on his career and honoring the names of the kings that occur throughout his biography. He does not mention any of his family members by name, including his father, the Vizier Iuu. He also claims that he achieved his high position entirely on his own merit. Archaeologists believed this was true until the 1999 Michigan work confirmed his father was the Vizier Iuu.
Mitski's Twitter account with a "follows you" symbol
A cool Ravel excerpt
another musical excerpt, this time from a piano piece by Messiaen
an excerpt from Alban Berg's Lyric Suite
View from the choir section of the Maison symphonique
signed copy of book by Marcel Dubé and coauthor
an anti-Mélenchon tweet (sorry, gazouilli!) that mistakenly refers to "le peuple gazouilli" instead of "gazaoui"