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by Fomite 3y ago
Hell, in the current department I'm faculty in, 0 years or 20 years of experience coming in, you're spending a year doing rotations. There's a huge amount to deciding your topic (and your PhD advisor) that needs to be decid
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by Fomite 3y ago
I did my PhD directly after my bachelors (technically I had a semester between them but close enough), and I was given a huge amount of freedom and independence in crafting my research topic, and my career is, by and large, indistinguishabl
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by Fomite 3y ago
I would suggest it's possible that it overestimates things - online discussions of graduate school - on here, on Twitter, on Academia StackExchange, etc. have, in my experience, been oriented toward discussing negative experiences.
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by Fomite 3y ago
Indeed. For me, my PhD was eye-opening in that it was the first opportunity to work the way I wanted to work, and realizing how much more productive I could be that way.
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by Fomite 3y ago
I've seen this referred to as "Shooting Star Syndrome"
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by Fomite 3y ago
The assertion was more power, not infinite power. You might not beat Gary Kasparov, but if you retired, hired a coach, and devoted yourself to chess, you would be better than your counterfactual equivalent who doesn't.
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by Fomite 3y ago
Somewhat reductively, that means all games are pay to win, because at the extreme, having enough money to retire, devote yourself to the game, hire tutors, etc. = more power.
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by Fomite 3y ago
We both kick up a fair amount of fines, but there's also a noticeable amount of fairly dirty output from the gas blower.
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by Fomite 3y ago
Purely anecdote, but my neighbor uses a gas leaf blower and we use an electric one, and our yards are broadly similar. The difference is notable.
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by Fomite 3y ago
2013 - I think.
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by Fomite 3y ago
One of the things I love about my VW GTI is I managed to get the "Wolfsburg Edition", which had everything I wanted and nothing I didn't. Including a lot of physical buttons and no screen in the center console.
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by Fomite 3y ago
Whenever I want to get really angry, I convert the funding the latest Uber But For Pets On The Blockchain Using LLMs into "R01s" - the standard $1.250 million dollar NIH grants that are considered career making in the biological s
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by Fomite 3y ago
Having done that comparison, really the only group where the vaccine wasn't protective against myocarditis (let alone everything else) was young men. And even then, it was more "Ehhh...?" The myocarditis caused was also, gene
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by Fomite 3y ago
Every infectious disease epidemiologist & physician I know uses "Asymptomatic COVID-19".
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by Fomite 3y ago
At least in infectious disease epidemiology as a field, "Asymptomatic COVID-19" is a perfectly accepted term. SARS-CoV-2 "referring to the virus" is for things like "SARS-CoV-2 has a number of receptor binding sites
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by Fomite 3y ago
Nearly all the research code for my lab is written in BBEdit.
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by Fomite 3y ago
In that regards, I actually agree with you. It's been the better part of a decade since I saw a talk by a colleague I immensely respect arguing against it, and I think it's value (whether it caused this outbreak or not) is specula
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by Fomite 3y ago
To be frank, given SARS-CoV-1 as well as MERS, and the known prevalence of coronaviruses in and near China, if I was the military I think I'd be justified into looking at viruses not as potential bioweapons but as a force readiness pro
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by Fomite 3y ago
You've jumped from "do research" to "making frankenviruses" - which beyond being a sensationalist term with no formal definition, isn't necessarily the sum totality of viral research. Just the bit that the popu
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by Fomite 3y ago
I've got a PhD in infectious disease epidemiology who got his start in researching respiratory pathogens and whose work on coronaviruses has been cited 387 times. I'd both put my estimate at much lower than 95%, and I'd be
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by Fomite 3y ago
I eventually got burnt out of answering there, but I found Academia StackExchange pleasant, and CrossValidated is in my dissertation acknowledgements.
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by Fomite 3y ago
One of the things every epidemiologist I worked with urged during the pandemic was universal sick leave.
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by Fomite 3y ago
Washington State University | Assistant Director, Allen School Data Core | Pullman, WA | Onsite or Remote (US-only) This position is responsible for the implementation and oversight of the data collection and storage infrastructure at the P
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by Fomite 3y ago
"HIPPA has made it basically impossible to do science in Medicine without being part of the establishment" I was able to get access to, and use, HIPPA data as a graduate student working in a field most of the "establishment&q
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by Fomite 3y ago
I would note there is a difference between untrue and fraudulent . "Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects..." Neither these are inherently the result of malfeasance or fraud, or even poor statistical practi
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by Fomite 3y ago
"Yes obviously that kind of free and unexpectedly diligent labor would be appreciated." Then perhaps characterizing doing work - including often doing partial replication, independently deriving results, checking code to make sure
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by Fomite 3y ago
What if I use your medical records, which contain pretty trivial identifying information in them?
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by Fomite 3y ago
Given the non-modular budget for an NIH R01 has not been updated since Clinton was president, there is absolutely no preparation for basic science costs to scale appropriately with inflation , let alone adding something that is a lot of
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by Fomite 3y ago
"If your data is high quality and others are using it to find interesting stuff then you are going to get citations and authorship on additional publications with minimal work..." This has not been born out in my experience, or th
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by Fomite 3y ago
This. "Your data is open and available in perpetuity for whatever use" is in deep conflict with how we think about human subjects data, often for very good reason.

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