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My partner is switching fields after 7 months post-layoff (but is starting a new gig Monday), and my best friend from grad school is still looking at 9 months. I wish your household the very best. It’s hard on everyone.
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On the plus side, the kids are all right if their primary question about scientific achievements is “how do we make sure people who need it will have access?”
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It’s been pretty painful.
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Most depressing question I have ever been asked about my job: Do you get a say in how much new drugs you worked on cost?
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🧪Entomologists, we are having a banner year for fireflies in the upper Midwest. What would be the best place to go watch a light show - forest, pond, prairie, etc? (Our front yard is pretty great, but we have a lot of nearby protected land.)
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This is really good news!
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Basking in sunbeams is an awfully good life for a cat. I’m sorry for your loss.
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What (to you) is the most interesting change in what we “know” about sharks in the past few years?
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Charming! Now falling down a rabbit hole of differentiating stoats, minks, ermines, and weasels.
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Same, of course. My dull response is “what makes you think cancer is a single disease with a single cure?” and my snarky one is “Do you honestly think Big Pharma couldn’t find a way to sell a cure for cancer for a bajillion dollars?”
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Ferrets seem less bitey. I bet mink and ermine are nice to pet . . .
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THIS IS A JOKE. I hear Big Pharma discovered the cure for cancer but are keeping it hidden because they can’t patent it. Is that true? END JOKE.
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I’m slightly obsessed with the possibility of a Type I diabetes cure. I’m hoping so hard this pans out.
www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/vertex-...
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We volunteer at a cat cafe (the kitties are rescues and adoptable). It’s the cutest. This was a day they got a box of catnip toys from a subscription box.
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Gorgeous! Please put pretty things in the feed for us to admire!
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I’m so terribly sorry. We expect to be there soon with our 18 year old kitty. It’s never enough time.
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Cleaned out my grandparents’ gardening shed many years ago and kept thinking, “I read about this one in ‘Silent Spring.’” Dad: So, can we just dump these? Me: Nonononono, we need to find a HazMat drop site.
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Oh my goodness. So many horrors in this report - WITH a concurrent announced inspection. #ChemSky 🧪
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I think this was the era I remember.
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Oooooh. I think those predate my visits. I only saw the insides once or twice as a kid, in all fairness.
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Check the expiration date on the PB, tho.
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Chandelier? Too fancy. But can you smell the casserole? Oh wait, it’s summer. Salad of torn iceberg lettuce topped with 1/4 tomato wedge and Thousand Island dressing smell doesn’t carry far.
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This is where I grew up! But it doesn’t register for me - I get bizarre guesses. The combination of Northern CA parents + growing up in the Chicago suburbs + extended family from ME + 8 years in TX = absolutely bizarre dialect.
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When I was in grad school, my father lost a book written by a Nobel laureate at my university. I found a copy in the bookstore and asked the prof to autograph it. The prof was EXTREMELY nice about it! I imagine it was a very unusual request.
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It just kept going . . .
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@somechemist.bsky.social and I volunteer at a local cat cafe. There are two bonded sisters who are incredibly close. I caught them taking synchronized baths on connected perches yesterday. They even adjusted poses in sync.
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We have lovely fireflies this year, so my evening plan is sitting on the front porch and enjoying them.
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This is adorable and hilarious and might be literally the only coverage I need.
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I use it when I talk to high schoolers about careers. My other favorite thing to tell them is that a friend visited his wife’s (little kid) class as a grad student, explaining that he was also a student. The kids asked what grade he was in. “Errrr, 20th?”
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Yeah, I mean that when the field was stacked with, like, TONS of the best and brightest of 50% of the population, you end up with very high standards for the role. I wasn’t forgetting that men can be librarians. 🙂
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But maintaining perspective matters!
matt.might.net/articles/phd...
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They are! My half-assed theory is that it was one of few professions open to/welcoming of women in the Baby Boom generation, so the field was overrun with smart, professional women, and it’s just continued from there.
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Congratulations!
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A coworker told me (years ago) how her family threw a graduation party for her PhD, and relatives kept surreptitiously approaching her to ask for prescriptions for various pain meds “now that you’re a doctor.”
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This is fascinating! Thank you for sharing. Do we know what factors are important for success?
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Someone misguidedly recommended that I watch “Picture a Scientist.” I, er, don’t think it was for me. But there’s a lot of discussion about how/whether they can recommend this path. I mentor, give talks, and generally try to pay it forward, but I do avoid talking about heavy costs.
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They are useful for making/purchasing models of specific disease on a reasonable timeline. For example, immunocompromised rodents are readily available. If you work on a disease with a genetic component, it can be engineered in rodents (if not already available).
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Always be Medically Unremarkable is a goal of mine.
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They are adorable! The boyfriend’s family had Bouviers, and I didn’t know keeping their coats long was even an option - I’ve only seen short cuts.
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High school lab experiment? Yeah, oof.
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I was going to post this - it’s a really nice piece of interdisciplinary work. I cannot imagine sniffing the GCMS effluent, though!
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I feel like your posts are going to remind me a ton of my mother and grandmother. Both have been gone long enough that this sort of thing is more “funny memory of how they were wrong a lot about me” than “miserable reminder of how I did nothing right,” but I sympathize!
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I’ve been hoping for your take since I saw the story!
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I’m glad everyone arrived in one piece. Wishing you good luck for what’s next.
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Whoa, thanks for posting this - I am constantly amazed at the breakthroughs in cancer treatments over the past decade.
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Hergenrother et al do such nice work.
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Wow! This is lovely.
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Sorry, I took your question at face value. Apologies.
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Too high can lead to turbulence and improper draw/backflow into lab. It’s not like the fume hood is overachieving and getting an A+ at safety.
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Prof. Zumdahl’s mnemonic for this was “Goldfish is hell without tartar sauce.” Memorable!
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