Tar_Alcaran

As anyone in science will tell you, doing research is basically 99.9% trusting experts, and 0.1% doing something new.

“anthropromorphic causes”.

“This human-shaped molecule causes heart disease!”

Trying for academia turned me off of chemistry so hard, I even started to hate my later corporate job doing research.

Though it did get me into regulations and safety, so it all worked out fine. If things had been different, they would have been different, but academia was a massive disillusionment for me.

It sounds weird to say that doing research for someone’s increasing personal wealth was much more enjoyable for me, since the funding was just there, and I didn’t have to teach students or write grant proposals I never wanted to complete.

I have a PhD because I thought I wanted to go into research. And while I loved research, that didn’t come close to cancelling out how much I loathed all the non-research shit you need to do for funding and keeping a job.

Then I went from academia into corporate R&D, and realized I basically started to hate doing chemistry in general. Mostly because it reminded me of all the stuff I hated.

Im now super happy as a safety consultant, and my PhD sometimes helps in convincing people that I do in fact know more than them. It also covers an ugly spot in the wallpaper, a purpose it fulfills much more frequently.

I haven’t seen an actual plotter in decades, they’re all just large format printers nowadays.

As a reference manager? I just use sticky notes that I place on a second monitor.

I’m very upset the randomized control didn’t involve fake shells.

Participants received either intervention of shankh blowing or a sham procedure (deep breathing exercise) for 6 months.

Don’t think of it like that, think of it as 10% of your total blood plastic!

I wonder if doing plasma instead of whole blood is better or worse. Does microplastic stay behind or go back in?

It’s archaic euphemistic jargon, and that’s why you generally don’t see it used outside of the niche.

That’s what it’s called when it’s inhumane to let them live after an experiment.

Certain rats have incredibly elevated chances of growing tumors, for example. Letting them grow old is basically torture, so…