Neil hunt's nonsense pottery

in defense of my eleven hour days at least it is a very beautiful bus route

sunrise and sunset on the bus

There are people who are so careful that they talk themselves out of the idea of using experiments in biology and I would argue they actually understand less than people who know there are caveats to things. If that antibody clone doesn't work, you will see it in the control

I used to say things like that and to be fair I'm also a grad student and I don't know anything and yes antibody binding is not necessarily a binary process but actually there is a huge and relevant difference between conditions when the antibody is bound vs not bound

Saw a video from a scientist talking about how it's a red flag when people talk in "absolutes" using the example of immunohistochemistry because "the antibody binding - what clone was it? what's the background level" and it was the most 1st year grad student thing I've ever seen

Local snorkeling group has started cataloguing dead sea lions and sharks on the ocean floor and discussing whether they should be moved ... out of the ocean? Perhaps to be given some kind of christian burial?

Ah, folk neuroscience

one person said "good camera, very good, camera was good" so idk that's something i guess

all the reviews for the camera i'm looking at say things like "one star: this camera cost $3 when i was a child, and now it doesn't" or "one star: target did not put it in my curbside pickup order." several people are reviewing a different camera, which they did not like

worst day of the year. hour stolen from night time given to the smug idiot breakfast eaters. the rise and shine clowns

Haha thank you tbh it's been amazing I'm glad I ignored the part of myself that said this was a dumb thing to do

Met a guy on hinge thirteen months ago who dropped the fact that he lived halfway across the country at the end of the date and I was like oh thank you, that's not something I'm interested in. Anyway here I am in a long distance relationship very sad that he had to leave again last night

This is such a good point! We aren't just brains in vats

I had really underestimated the physical difficulty of teaching. By my second section I'm clutching the lectern like trump, my ectopic heart beats are going insane, I sound drunk trying to articulate all the sounds in "glucocorticosteroids," like I just don't have the stamina for this

i've seen the stuff they *do* publish in my field. gonna become one of those elife weirdoes just watch

mad at science and nature for desk rejecting my coworker's beautiful paper. we have it all! fancy new expensive techniques, old fashioned genetics, crispr in non model organisms, very complicated experiments in model organisms recapitulating the trait, a supplemental figure that took me 3 years,,,

There are some sympathetic people who are not great thinkers and have been brainwashed by tradwife stuff on instagram and honestly I think the kindest thing we can do for them is to put a bunch of social pressure around vaccines. They need cues!

You're absolutely right—that was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leaders—they were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.

i was just thinking i have been getting some real cursed amulet vibes from this whole discourse. like why is "fancy google search" that will make me more efficient in the office whether i like it or not whispering to you in a register only you can hear buddy

the only times i can get excel to recognize a = as a formula now, for some reason it insists to me that the sum of 12.5 and 2.5 is 5, so i don't know what's going on with that. i miss being able to do pcr sheets that would update on their own when i changed the reaction number

Following in the proud Montana footsteps of Greg Gianforte, who was elected governor and then body slammed a reporter for asking him about health care policy. He then lied about it and then said the reporter started it! He is still the governor!

Wait you guys are paying how much for gas

atheism is in fact a sincerely held value that is common in america and that deserves political representation in a democracy. believe it or not, this is true even if people who are not religious are sometimes annoying

I’m not sure if it’s uniquely American but the idea you have to shut down any discernment or nuance when you think about principles is the opposite of thinking.

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that.

Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv

We are living in a cultural gas leak in so many ways

remarkable how much no one cares that the weather is insane every single day now

It's so cool that we know who she is, real sign that things are going good

I don't want to minimize the horror of her saying this but she also said she wanted to kill every Latino in america

Also the Iranian students at my university have been protesting pretty consistently the past few months! I drive past a protest against the regime every Sunday