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by gww 8y ago
It's ridiculous that it's a point of pride for supervisors to overwork their students. Along a similar vein one of my supervisors used to come in on weekends just to see who was there and he would deprecate those he didn't s
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by gww 8y ago
One of my supervisors used to point out various pieces of lab equipment and equated it's value to X PhD's. It was funny and a bit depressing at the same time. EDIT: I do think the culture of referring to trainees as slaves needs
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by gww 8y ago
Those are definitely amazing opportunities. I have had colleagues who have had those and they were incredible experiences for them. However, I am not sure what the proportion of post-docs are that get that level of independence.
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by gww 8y ago
I think this should be extended to post doctoral fellows as well. People generally focus on PhD students but post-docs are even more vulnerable. Many academic places have some level of protection and oversight for PhD's. These proect
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by gww 8y ago
Thanks, that looks fun. I haven't read one of Moore's books since Practical Demonkeeping, which I enjoyed immensely.
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by gww 8y ago
Oh cool I will check those out for sure thanks!
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by gww 8y ago
I always wanted to read a book on the history of pigments and other artist supplies from a chemistry perspective. In particular, how they were found, isolated and used.
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by gww 8y ago
When I was an undergrad (Finished in 2007) it was different. You were definitely assigned to a program which had required courses with a 1-2 half courses a yearyou could use for other courses. They didn't generally limit what classes
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by gww 8y ago
This sounds oddly similar to the movie Proof from 2005.
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by gww 8y ago
I think it's tragic that they low ball international students that way. Many of the ones I have met work exceptionally hard; including doing activities like you mentioned.
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by gww 8y ago
I am skeptical that will ever happen. At least in North America there are a plethora of international students willing to train here for next to nothing and in some cases I've heard rumours of post-docs not taking a salary at all.
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by gww 8y ago
A few of my colleagues with bio PhD's have started microbreweries with various levels of success. They seem to be much happier than my colleagues and myself who have chosen the post-doc route. This is a bit of a tangent but it seems t
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by gww 9y ago
The Human Cell Atlas project will certainly yield a tremendous amount of data and define many new cell types. I wonder how much resolution we will get from single cell RNA-seq since technological limitations permit the analysis of genes wit
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by gww 9y ago
I completely agree with this. I believe that staff scientists should be treated as independent researchers. In my experience, they tend to be used as lab support, for example, ordering reagents, managing the annoying aspects of big project
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by gww 10y ago
There is a technology similar to this for sorting cells based on biological properties and fluorescent markers called Flow Cytometry. The machines typically allow "user defined" gates and schemes through interactive software.
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by gww 10y ago
I tried a low-dose of anti-depressants for a year while I was going through a rough patch. They helped quite a bit but the withdrawal symptoms -- especially the brain zaps -- were quite unpleasant.
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by gww 10y ago
There are so many arbitrary choices made when analyzing single cell RNA-seq data. There coverage cutoffs to decide when a gene is expressed, arbitrary QA points to decide when a cell is "good quality", the PC's chosen for t-
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by gww 10y ago
t-SNE is commonly used in single cell RNA sequencing experiments. These experiments use microfluidic technologies to profile the gene expression of thousands of single cells. t-SNE is usually used on the top N (quite commonly N = 50) princ
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by gww 10y ago
DNAse contamination would be a big problem too. It would also be a relatively easy way to "securely" erase your data.
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by gww 10y ago
I like "General Chemistry" by Linus Pauling, despite its age it is a nice introductory book.
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by gww 10y ago
I would argue that cancer is more of a consequence of aging, genetics, and environmental factors and not a "feature". Cells have evolved multiple mechanisms to prevent rampant and uncontrolled growth. With cancer these mechanisms
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by gww 10y ago
I think the control of viruses such as smallpox may become irrelevant once their genomes can be synthesized de novo ("in a test tube"). There is still the challenge of producing fully infectious virions but it is possible and has
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by gww 10y ago
I think he fluffed the book up a bit, but I believe some of the assertions about their research activities and production have been confirmed.
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by gww 10y ago
There is another fantastic book called "Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from the Inside by the Man Who Ran It " By Ken Alibek. For example, the USSR supposedly
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by gww 11y ago
I will certainly have to check that subreddit out. I really miss playing them they were something really special. I learned to program because I wanted to build areas and monsters on the MUD I played.
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by gww 11y ago
Wow, MUDs I have not thought about the one I spent my teenage years playing until you mentioned them. I just checked and to my surprise it is still online. Too bad it looks like no one plays anymore.
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by gww 11y ago
I could not agree with you more. It is a disconcerting trend to see high impact papers using an "in house program" or "a modified version of a previously described tool", without providing any details about software ver
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by gww 11y ago
CIRSPR requires a method to deliver the nuclease complexes to cellular targets in a living organism. I believe the only methods tried so far used adenoviruses.
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by gww 11y ago
I think one of the problems is that the sequencing boon has led to a shift in grant funding and research direction towards global hypothesis generating studies rather than hypothesis driven studies. These may find statistical associations
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by gww 11y ago
I had the same issue with shoulder slouching. The muscles that pulled my shoulders back were incredibly weak while my pectoralis minor was very tight. I ended up with rotator cuff impediments and thoracic outlet syndrome in both my shoulde

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