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the strongest bond is probably pad wings to themselves. the weakest is probably pad wings to your underwear
you deserve a life you arenāt constantly recovering from
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science has always been political. what gets studied. what doesnt. who gets to do the studying. on and on and on.
scientists on this post: yuuuup š
people who aren't scientists: um actually āļø
I left research science for a multitude of personal reasons but a big one was that my autistic arse just could not keep up with the politics. Trying to increase your profile and your work's appeal for grant money (both critically important factors for succeeding in science) by carefully tailoring your work focus, grant proposals and papers to attract the interest of various grant committees focused on what research is in fashion and also to try to maximise the number of references to your papers in other people's papers takes so much time and just isn't interesting.
People in the notes are all like "yes sometimes The Government or The Lobbyists remove funding from sciences that might reveal things that they do not want known" and yes yes covid and climate change and vaccine denialism and racism and all that, but it's not just the obvious stuff. When I was working in labs, metagenomics was the next big thing, so EVERYTHING was metagenomics. If you worked in environmental or medical microbio, there was an 80% chance that you were taking some mud or poop or something and doing metagenomics on it whether or not it was the best way to analyse what you wanted to analyse, and bam, that was a paper, possibly two, it kept the lights on. And if 100 labs run 100 experiments where they do metagenomics for random things to do with the human body, then at a 95% confidence interval, 5 of them will find a completely nonexistent correlation for any random thing you can think of if they happen to check their data for it, and they need to keep the lights on and the PhD student who's running the experiment needs a paper so even though that wasn't what they were looking for, bam -- everyone's seeing that men and women have different microbiomes in their large intestine! People with autism nave different microbiomes, people with MS have different microbiomes, kids who are vaccinated have different microbiomes so watch out! And there's not enough papers to do a review paper for six or seven years, and when that review paper is done only other scientists will read it, because Everyone Knows that vaccines alter your microbiome so stay away from them, and Everyone Knows that men and women are so so different because why else would their large intestines be so different? Look at this paper!
And the psych guys are doing MRIs because that's the Next Big Thing, and any bias culturally relevant enough will get positive papers for it because the 100 labs will check their 100 papers and the 95 that show no difference at 95% confidence are of course never published because there's nothing to say. And the medicine guys are running ten thousand seaweed extract experiments to kill cancer cells, and their confidence intervals do tend to be better, but there is no defense against an industry where the only way to survive is to publish and the only way to get funding is to look into something that the grant committee wants you to find something interesting about, and you'd better find that something interesting even if you kind of have to publish your study before repeating it to check for that confidence interval -- someone else will repeat it, or you will once the paper's out, but you've got to get the paper out. And that paper had better be useful for other scientists to reference, even if you have to change the tone and the implications and choose which results are worth referencing, because getting more references is how you keep your job and how you convince the next grant committee.
Big Bad Government Lies About Covid is a problem, but it's not the problem. A perfect government with a massive science budget does not solve the problem. The system of research is inherently political because it is inherently competitive and because it deals with numbers and statistics that are not intuitive to humans.
#fuck capitalism
Nono this problem also exists outside of capitalism. Any economic system has to distribute resources and any actually useful one has to care if its workers are actually producing something.
Publish or perish is a huge problem. It is rewarding "work", but not the useful work that we want to see. All attempts to make those 95 papers see the light of day have been... less than successful. And the rewards for replicating a paper (or at least as useful, showing that you can't) aren't as large as for producing a piece of slop that shows that there's a correlation between green jelly beans an acne.
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Every time you go in a public place and something ISNāT disgusting itās because somebody cleaned it. Every time you feel comfortable using a public bathroom or sitting at a restaurant table or setting something on a gas station counter or playing on a playground itās because somebody cleaned it.
Thank you to everyone who cleans the world, especially those who are underpaid and under appreciated.
I worked in a supermarket for 7 years and I don't think I can understate just how much cleaning you had to do for it to look clean (it very often where not in the places you aren't supposed to see)
True for food service, retail establishments, gyms, outdoor areas, schools, religious buildings, office buildings, etc. People usually only notice when a space is NOT clean, meanwhile every time a space is clean itās only because of the diligent work of janitors, maintenance staff, custodians, parks workers, or volunteers.
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I've seen this clip many times, but never really appreciated the power of "what was her problem?" Just casually assuming that lesbians come in a wide variety of shapes and being inclusive. As a transbian who is probably still closer to Homer shaped than to my ideal, that's huge!
The children yearn for 22 episode seasons
What do you mean you canāt find a job? Have you looked on Indeed? What about Linkedin? You should try Upwork. How about Rise? Have you tried Jobera? Take a look on Dribbble. You GOTTA be on Jooble, dude. Get on Jooble. Jooble has it for you.
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THOSE ARE ALL REAL WEBSITES
lowkey obsessed with my own blog. it has all my favorite things and all the opinions i agree with. best place on the internet maybe ever
I think the absolute worst term to come out of this age of pseudo-scientific puritanical bullshit has got to be ādopamine addictionā. āYouāre addicted to feeling good and having funā bitch yeah???? What else are we on this earth to do??
letting yourself be calm or bored and not constantly consuming media or keeping busy can be good for you.
having tea or coffee or whatever drink you like while just sitting with your thoughts should be something a person can and will do regularly.
i feel dopamine when I do those things. They make me happy just sitting there with a drink though.
Getting up on my gay little soapbox again to remind everyone that prev is correct. Dopamine is not a chemical that is only released when you are overstimulated by Media Consumption or whatever. You can get a dopamine hit from sitting calmly in the dark and watching the rain. It is a pleasure chemical, not a Capitalism Chemical. Stop conflating āpleasureā with ābeing constantly busy and unable to tear yourself away from scrolling social mediaā. I hate social media and I love being alone with my thoughts. If youāre unable to experience joy in everyday life you probably need to be on antidepressants. Thatās not me trying to be dismissive Iām speaking from experience.
āI donāt like this song because I canāt relate to itā skill issue. Iām mad at my husband I love my girlfriend Iām a lone cowboy Iām growing old Iām growing up Iām depressed I love my friends Iām perpetually horny Iām drunk at the club I love my husband again
this is exactly what Iām talking about
Why are we forgetting the old texts
i hate this place i want to go to build a bear
me and the besties going to build a bear
powerful mental image, had to get it out
I felt bad for Beth. Had to include her.
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