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by Fomite 1y ago
It should be noted that the decision to vaccinate younger children is a combination of disease prevention and cost, not just vaccine effectiveness.
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by Fomite 1y ago
The key is you want it to clear as quickly as possible.
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by Fomite 1y ago
Potentially, yes. HPV infections are cleared over time, and there are many strains of HPV.
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by Fomite 1y ago
"But her take-home is next to nothing because on top of parking tickets, repairs and other maintenance on her vehicles, she also donates at least $800 each month to her ministry, Spread the Name of Lord Jesus" So her take-home is
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by Fomite 1y ago
Given this is a phase one trial, and the prognosis of the patients in question, those are still pretty striking results.
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by Fomite 1y ago
This. None of them make me go "Damn, that's a good looking car..." any more than a number of others. The Cybertruck is just am embarrassment, design wise.
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by Fomite 1y ago
Most grants in the U.S. are discussed and scored by reputable scientists and researchers in a committee format, and those scores weigh heavily on the likelihood of a grant being funded. It's actually one of my favorite parts of the job
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by Fomite 1y ago
There's a lot of work right now in figuring out ways to reduce the cold chain requirements and make it easier to stock.
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by Fomite 1y ago
You can show transmission pathways with a combination of epidemiological evidence and sequencing data.
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by Fomite 1y ago
I believe we call that a "pivot"
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by Fomite 1y ago
It's niche, but this is devastating the miniature wargaming industry, which is heavily based on small firms in the UK.
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by Fomite 1y ago
I'd argue it's part of the baked in, fundamental disrespect AI firms have for literally everyone else.
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by Fomite 1y ago
Agreed. It's just sort of ironic as an aspirational goal.
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by Fomite 1y ago
"Evil"
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by Fomite 1y ago
This was my thought. "...like public infrastructure" means underfunding and neglect.
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by Fomite 1y ago
One of the best schools of public health in the country didn't admit any PhD students this year.
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by Fomite 1y ago
Getting people to Vegas is heavily subsidized under the assumption that while they are there they will spend rather freely.
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by Fomite 1y ago
Extruded synthetic plum substrate
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by Fomite 1y ago
> This is not typical and you know it. You said "your". But my entire field goes off NIH rates, which while not nearly high enough, are well above minimum wage. That's what I'm objecting to - the broad strokes exagger
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by Fomite 1y ago
The curriculum meetings are because we're starting a new program, and my entire department is on 12 month contracts, not 9 month ones. Honestly, those meetings are rather fun, because it's a chance to talk about what I think we s
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by Fomite 1y ago
The flexibility is undeniably nice, though it does sort of erode work-life separation in a way I have yet to figure out how to fix.
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by Fomite 1y ago
> Why? What happens if you as a tenured PI say no? In the last lets say five years of my career, the range of possible consequences for this range from "Mildly annoying a colleague I like" to "Catastrophic outcomes for a 1
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by Fomite 1y ago
I do not have set hours, but I do have obligations. When a program officer wants to talk to you, and it's 6 AM because you're on the west coast, you say yes. "You can offload as much work as you want to grad students and post
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by Fomite 1y ago
It is certainly possible to try to get another government to fund it, but the NIH is the largest source of funding for health science research in the world, both for domestic U.S. research and also international research. So is it theoret
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by Fomite 1y ago
'It's debatable whether or not they'll achieve that, but if you actually look at what the goal is, the investment makes sense.' The first clause of that sentence negates the second. The investment only makes sense if t
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by Fomite 1y ago
It often is, but that's much less formal and field dependent than a lot of people want.
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by Fomite 1y ago
The lab where I did my postdoc had a joke that the first graduate student to make it big at some startup had to come back and endow a chair for their advisor.
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by Fomite 1y ago
My schedule, while more flexible , is not better than any one of my colleagues who went into industry.
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by Fomite 1y ago
I'd assert it's not really a good start. The problem is largely rooted in scarcity - that there are very grants, and jobs, etc. that need to be competed for, and maybe it's worth it to you to overlook those couple outliers. Y
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by Fomite 1y ago
By that logic, the defense industry should have orders of magnitude more problems than the average research university.

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