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Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM
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Educator | Entrepreneur | Mentor | Author: Leadership Lessons with The Beatles, Roots and Wings. | Shares: Leadership insights, Stories on AI, Women Engineers | Music 🎶| Flora🌻|📱photography | All photos by me unless attributed | shanthamohan.com
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Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM @shlead.bsky.social · Nov 22
How can one not be cheered up by seeing this lovely, cheery yellow rose? It is still blooming in my garden in the third week of November, so I had to share it with everyone who appreciates flowers.

Have a good weekend!

#dailyflowers
shlead.bsky.social
“So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud,
Sweet Hope, celestial influence round me shed,
Waving thy silver pinions o’er my head.” - John Keats.

Wishing you a lovely evening and a great start to Wednesday - from my garden, April 2025🌹

#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling
A partially opened red rose and green leaves, seen against a fence, pink jasmine, and blue sky with white clouds. Another red rose is partially visible on the bottom right. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro. April 2025. My garden.
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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🎼If I'm laden at all
I'm laden with sadness
That everyone's heart
Isn't filled with the gladness
Of love for one another

youtu.be/eUWZqbumaZo

What is playing?
#djshantha

#musicsky
#music
#'60s
The Hollies: He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother (2019 Remaster Video)
YouTube video by The Hollies
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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The handcrafted birdhouses have been added over time by the owner of the house in my neighborhood to this tree in his front yard. I wonder how long it will take to cover the trunk completely! Each unique geometrical shape is a delight.

#Tree #ThickTrunkTuesday #ThickTrunk
A tree trunk with birdhouses. A green hedge is on the left. A cement wall is partially visible at the back. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro. December 2025. My neighborhood.
December 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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"Virtual population enables population-scale discovery of associations between cell states and key biomarkers."

www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

#ai #cancer
AI-generated population-scale is changing how we study cancer
Using AI-generated virtual populations, Microsoft researchers uncovered hidden cellular patterns that could reshape how we understand and treat cancer.
www.microsoft.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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"The investment — Microsoft’s largest in Asia — will fund new data centers, AI infrastructure, and skilling programs from 2026 to 2029, building on the $3 billion the company committed in India in January."

finance.yahoo.com/news/microso...

#ai
Microsoft to invest $17.5B in India by 2029 as AI race accelerates
The latest is Microsoft's largest investment in Asia.
finance.yahoo.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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"Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their
tribes, their families, their histories, too...
Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems."

I had never seen a Florenza Sunflower before I went to Gamble Garden in July. 🌻

#Twosday

#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling
Two Florenza sunflowers, a bi-color cultivar of the common sunflower with petals that have pale yellow inner and outer edges and intense burgundy middle. Greenery and smaller yellow flowers are in the background. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro. July 2025. Gamble Garden.
December 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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A Santorini, Greece memory captured in this photo by my husband.

A trip to remember from 1998.

#TidesOutTuesday
#RockinTuesday
#nostalgic
#EastCoastKin
The image shows a volcanic caldera landscape in Santorini, Greece. A vast expanse of blue and turquoise water. A rugged, dark-colored volcanic island in the middle and foreground. A large, cliff face in the background Some dry, yellowish grass or brush on the beach in the foreground. A small boat is partially visible on the left side of the image. Greece, 1998.
December 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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library.cmu.edu
We've reopened the doors of the newly-renovated Posner Center for Special Collections on December 2 with an inaugural exhibition titled “Rare Books & Ancestral Machines.” 📜+🧮

New hours listed on our website. Plan your visit today!

👩‍💻 Take a look inside: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
Curator of Special Collections Sam Lemley and Special Collections Coordinator Catherine Blauvelt. Guests visit the exhibit. The newly redesigned Posner Center for Special Collections.
December 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
shlead.bsky.social
Remembering Ida Scudder on her birthday.🙌🏼
wisarchive.bsky.social The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 11h
Ida Scudder was born 155 years ago today - after getting her MD in the first Cornell class to admit women she applied her knowledge to improve women's health care in India, opening a new hospital in 1902, a women's medical school in 1918, and the Vellore Christian Medical Center in 1945.

#MedSky ⚕️🧪
December 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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🎵And they called it puppy love
Oh, I guess they'll never know
How a young heart really feels
And why I love her so

youtu.be/Ze9oY6zaGYQ

Happy Birthday, Donny Osmond!💐💐💐

#musicsky
#music
Donny Osmond | "Puppy Love" (1972)
YouTube video by Donny Osmond
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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"Blue is the color of longing for the distances you never arrive in…” - Rebecca Solnit.

🌅Good morning!

Wishing you a lovely day!💙

#ColorADay #BlueTue

#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling

#EastCoastKin
Blue plumbago flowers and green leaves. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro. October 2025. From a neighborhood walk.
December 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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🎶Lots of chocolate for me to eat
Lots of coal makin' lots of heat
Warm face, warm hands, warm feet
Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?

youtu.be/q5fW7sERw7I

#djshantha

#musicsky
#music
#'60s
"MY FAIR LADY"/"Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" - AUDREY HEPBURN
YouTube video by withlotsabutta
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December 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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"For the rose...
Is the blush of the meadows that feel themselves fair,
Is the lightning of beauty that strikes through the bowers..."
- Sappho.

Wishing you a peaceful evening and a terrific start to Tuesday, with this November rose! 🌹

#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling
#ImageAndVerse
A peach-colored rose, green leaves, and soil. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro. November 2025. Gamble Garden.
December 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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"For most of human history, only the wealthy could afford a personal tutor. That’s about to change."
- Werner Vogels.

www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/11/tech...

#AI
Tech predictions for 2026 and beyond
We’ve caught glimpses of a future that values autonomy, empathy, and individual expertise. Where interdisciplinary cooperation influences discovery and creation at an unrelenting pace. In the coming y...
www.allthingsdistributed.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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🎼You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

youtu.be/VOgFZfRVaww

What is playing?
#djshantha

#musicsky
#music
#'70s
Imagine - John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band (w The Flux Fiddlers) (Ultimate Mix 2018) - 4K REMASTER
YouTube video by johnlennon
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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"Let the rain kiss you
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
Let the rain sing you a lullaby..." - Langston Hughes
.
#MagentaMonday

#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling
#imageAndVerse
#EastCoastKin
A megenta ranunculus flower and green leaves with raindrops. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro. November 2025. Local nursery.
December 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Two trees from my neighborhood from my walk this afternoon.

The one on the left has lost half its leaves, perhaps due to the sun. But they sure look pretty!

#BlueskyMonday #scape #treescape
A tree with red leaves. Likely an Acer. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro. December 2025. My neighborhood. A tree with yellow leaves. Likely an elm. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro. December 2025. My neighborhood.
December 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Ready for the holidays.
We are not too big on decorations. But I bought this wreath from a Boy Scout because I didn't have the heart to say no to the kid from my neighborhood. It sure is pretty, and my grandkids noticed when they came over last night.
A Christmas wreath with a red and black chequered ribbon bow. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro. December 2025. My front door.
December 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Nothing special to see here, except for this soft pink beauty from one of my walks last year.

#ColorADay #PinkMon

#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling
A pink rose, buds, and greenery. Sme smaller flowers are in the background but out of focus. Camera: iPhone SE (1st Generation). June 2024. From a neighborhood walk.
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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A beautiful sunflower bud biding its time to unfurl the pretty yellow petals!

#MacroMonday
#EastCostKin

#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling
A macro of a yellow sunflower bud and green leaves. Some brown soil is visible in the background. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro. September 2025. Gamble Garden.
December 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Remembering my Appa on the day he passed away 48 years ago. He was my silent mentor. I inherited my love of reading, work ethic, and much more from him.
Portrait of Dr. B.S. Ramaswami, my father, in sepia.
December 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Remembering Julia Robinson on her birthday. 🙌🏼
wisarchive.bsky.social The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 1d
Mathematician Julia Robinson was born 106 years ago today. Her uncanny ability to connect seemingly unrelated parts of math theory to solve problems allowed her to create the conditions that ultimately cracked Hilbert's Tenth Problem.

tinyurl.com/45xm6vsc

#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮🧪
Julia Robinson and the Cracking of Hilbert’s Tenth Problem
For mathematicians, the only thing more exciting than proving a theorem is proving that it can never be proven. These anti-proofs, if you will, stand firmly against all future progress of humanity and...
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December 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Great gifts for children!
reichental.bsky.social Dr. Jonathan Reichental @reichental.bsky.social · 1d
THIS WEEK: It's the most wonderful time of the year and Brett Hoffstadt and I are delighted to share details on our popular and fun kids books about cities. Our books, co-created with teachers, mix social interaction, learning, and fun.

www.linkedin.com/posts/reiche...
December 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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🎶“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche
December 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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🎶Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works out
It doesn't matter much to me

youtu.be/HtUH9z_Oey8

Remembering John Lennon on the day he was taken away from us. 🫶🏼🙌🏼🌹

#musicsky
#music
#beatles
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
YouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO
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December 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM