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by searine 1y ago
Childhood nutrition and Lead exposure are the two highest impact issues that can be easily solved to improve life-time outcomes, and yet we don't fix it. It is mind boggling that we leave kids starving in america, and we are going to p
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by searine 1y ago
Man, just let me have this. Biology is messy at a macro level is all I'm saying. I don't need a hundred people butting in saying "butt aschully phsyix and code is also messy and harder at a quantum level." I know. We kno
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by searine 1y ago
Not saying those fields don't have uncertainty, but I've never seen an physicist pray to Newton that gravity works this time when the ball drops. I have seen molecular biologists (jokingly) shake the voodoo "molecular biology
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by searine 1y ago
I think one of the things I love most about biology is its uncertainty. Things like Math and engineering are all rigid and rules based. Life is wibbily wobbly, lifey-wifey. An enormous soup of changing alleles cast as probabilities over eon
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by searine 2y ago
Why are they the worst? Genuinely curious.
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by searine 2y ago
I don't think it is that pessimistic. Yes there are low-quality papers out there but I'd rather have 100 low-quality papers if it gives us 1 truly insightful piece of research. Any expert worth their salt can read a paper and judg
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by searine 2y ago
>if they didn't have the opportunity to pursue a PhD they wouldn't leave the country How do you think the US got so many international students?
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by searine 2y ago
>According to data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), around 1,600 English and Literature PhDs are awarded annually in the United States. Total PhDs awarded annually in all categories : 57,862 It is a very small field that is be
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by searine 2y ago
Despite the typical tech-bro anti-intellectual comments on this thread. As the article states. It's the money. People need to be able to support themselves. PhDs are important because they train specialists by giving them the time and
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by searine 2y ago
>So where will so called top scientists go? Back to their home countries. I can think of about a half dozen world leading scientists I work with every day who would pack up their labs if funding dried up. They already did it once to move
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by searine 2y ago
Do you hear that sucking sound? It's biggest brain drain you've ever seen. It already been happening, I know several great scientists who've already left, this BS just kicked it into high gear.
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by searine 2y ago
I'm not a physicist but "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" was life-changing. A sweeping view of the baton-passing of ideas over decades that lead to a climatic event. Both personal, and highly detailed, it is an absolute master
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by searine 2y ago
"Claims to understand complex genetics but probably can't explain why their houseplants keep dying" Shit. Has deepseek cracked AI humor?
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by searine 2y ago
This was a life-changing book for me.
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by searine 2y ago
yet another example of thankless work done by regular everyday government employees. Good job USDA/WSDA.
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by searine 2y ago
>In this case that hypothesis is "all other DNA/RNA is junk", Strawman. It is not as black and white as you think it is. Some non-coding DNA/RNA is functional. Some is not. Selection/conservation is often used as
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by searine 2y ago
Most of the genome is non protein coding. Some is functional, most simply is not functional in any way. It is just empty space. Rates of mutation in these regions, and lack of conservation are hallmark clues which show that there isn't
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by searine 2y ago
That how it was, and it can easily go back to that.
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by searine 2y ago
Pretty much every industry functions on a foundation of basic scientific knowledge discovered in academic labs, run by honest people trying to understand the natural world. Fraud happens. Bad theories happen. The slow turn of scientific whe
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by searine 2y ago
You are being downvoted because you extrapolating from one fraud case to call all scientists dishonest. I can do it too. Person named SpaceManNabs made a bad post. There for all posts by SpaceManNabs, and probably all posts on HackerNews ar
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by searine 2y ago
That is a ridiculous exaggeration. Yes, like in every walk of life, fraud happens. However, the extreme success of academic science shows that most of it is real, honest, work.
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by searine 2y ago
Been very unimpressed with his restaurants and more-so by his personality. This hard/stupid blog post just reinforces that.
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by searine 2y ago
>NASA is a political jobs program This is the truth, and while you could frame it as a negative, I see it as a huge positive. Because NASA has been subsidizing space for decades the US has a tremendous among of trained workers for aero-s
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by searine 2y ago
People have been trash talking these events, but honestly I greatly respect Paris for what they tried to do. It was ambitious and maybe didn't hit a home run, but I'd call it a solid base hit. A few people barfed, yes, but the riv
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by searine 2y ago
It is kind of crazy that "BBL Drizzy" of all things set a precedent. Using AI to create an incomplete song and then a real producer using it as a royalty-free sample to create an actual hit song. I could see this paradigm becoming
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by searine 3y ago
mRNA vaccines aren't really modifying genes or changing expression in the way CRISPR or RNAi can. Given the reaction to even the most basic deployment of a new technique, I doubt there will be mass adoption of more complex technique th
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by searine 3y ago
The special sauce here is that they are using "RNAi", or RNA interference to reduce expression of viral proteins. This is a very well vetted technique in a research setting, but is not a clinical tool. There has been a tremendous
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by searine 3y ago
A ripe pawpaw is like a banana/mango flavor. Bitter and tough before ripe, but very sweet and soft when fully ripe with almost no bitter or sour. Slightly stringy like a squash.
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by searine 3y ago
Find a big problem you care about and start doing your part to solve it by taking small steps.
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by searine 3y ago
>"publish or perish" and the fact that survival and job advancement depend on quantity over quality of publications. I mean, kind of but not really. Any academic of even marginal skill can smell a padded CV from a mile away. Th

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