Grad School and Other Inhumane Punishments

The joy and misery that is science research and education

[lowplexbooks]

Let’s try! Very simple steps to tie a bow tie.

[researchrobot1]

Cool!

[researchrobot1]

I submitted what I thought was my last draft of my paper to my PI... NOPE.

[whatshouldwecallgradschool]

FOR MY ACKNOWLEDGMENT SLIDE

credit: Almet

[researchrobot1]

That's from Easley winery, here in Indianapolis.

[researchrobot1]

I wonder how my mice respond to hearing my music from my iPod when I'm feeding them or changing their cages.

[did-you-know]

Source

[researchrobot1]

The joke is already in it... that anyone can escape a tyrannical government and live a life of freedom... that's hilarious.

[lolmythesis]

Sometimes traditions stay the same, and sometimes they change, because: colonialism.

Anthropology, University of Queensland 

[researchrobot1]

Because, things change or they die.

[headlikealamb]

[pantsareunwelcome]

tumblr after dark is kind of like…

[researchrobot1]

I couldn't say why, but this reminds me of Beyonce's "Single Ladies" video. :-o

[whatshouldwecallgradschool]

MY NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION

[gitju]

(another?)

[researchrobot1]

Men aren't difficult. Show some cleavage, or some leg, or a killer sense of humor. Guys love all that shit. :)

[meme-meme]

Exceedingly offended baby.

[momma-ky]

OMG

[kawaiipandapro-deactivated20140]

HAHA

[researchrobot1]

LOL!

[femscinerd]

Science Writing Scientific Journal Editor Science Policy Science Outreach Science Education for Non-scientists Teacher (high school, community/technical college, small liberal arts colleges) Non-tenured Faculty (often involves managing multiple projects, more administrative work) Science Program…

[eternalacademic]

Words from a mentor: There are always options. You can switch your project. You can switch labs/advisors. You can switch programs/departments. You can switch degrees. You can switch universities. You always have options. You are not stuck.

[researchrobot1]

This is important to remember.

[haiyaxai-deactivated20151103]

This is a summary of college only using two pictures; expensive as hell.

That’s my Sociology “book”. In fact what it is is a piece of paper with codes written on it to allow me to access an electronic version of a book. I was told by my professor that I could not buy any other paperback version, or use another code, so I was left with no option other than buying a piece of paper for over $200. Best part about all this is my professor wrote the books; there’s something hilariously sadistic about that. So I pretty much doled out $200 for a current edition of an online textbook that is no different than an older, paperback edition of the same book for $5; yeah, I checked. My mistake for listening to my professor.

This is why we download. 

 Alternatives to buying overpriced textbooks

Textbooknova 

Reddit

Bookboon 

Textbookrevolution 

GaTech Math Textbooks

Ebookee 

Freebookspot 

Free-ebooks

Getfreeebooks 

BookFinder

Oerconsortium 

Project Gutenberg

[crystalgarbage-blog]

Spreading this shit like nutella because goddamn textbooks are so expensive. 

[referencesforartists]

not necessarily art related but as someone who couldn’t afford their textbooks this semester this is a godsend

[amplifytheworld-blog]

REBLOGGING because after a little digging, I found my $200 textbook for free in PDF form.

[inunchartedwaters-deactivated20]

friendly reminder that this exists since I know we’re all going back to college soon

[1-4victor-out]

Will reblog every time I see it.

[researchrobot1]

College books are a racket.

[scienceyoucanlove-deactivated20]

A group of high school students in Michigan gave a 4-year-old girl the gift of a lifetime yesterday. The robotics team from West Catholic High School presented little Harmony Taylor with the right hand she never had, after the teenagers spent six weeks to build the hand from a 3D printing device that was donated to their school.Harmony was born with “limb differences”, which caused the fingers on her right hand to never developMary Free Bed Rehabilitation Center in Michigan also played a role in the creation of the hand, Monica Scott of MLive reports, helping the family connect with the school when insurance wouldn’t cover all of Harmony’s needs. West Catholic students Tim Liu, 18, and Aimee Kalczuk, 17, presented the device to little Harmony and her family yesterday. The device is a plastic cuff that fits snugly on the girl’s hand, with prosthetic fingers attached. "It is so great to be able do something that can change her life," Liu told Scott. The team spent about two hours in the evenings once a week to complete the project.Harmony’s mother, Michelle Peterman, said that along with the robotic hand, the high school students presented Harmony with a gift bag that included pink nail polish.The little girl was elated, "I’m going to paint [my nails] pink!" Harmony exclaimed. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/little-girl-gets-3d-printed-hand-2013-12#ixzz2o2wwxaXc

[researchrobot1]

Ouch. My feels.

[dudeinthesoundbooth-deactivated]

[researchrobot1]

I agree, that shoe shit is ludicrous.

[kqedscience]

The Biggest Junk Science of 2013 - 2013: The Worst of the Worst

“As 2013 draws to a close, RealClearScience will be counting down the top 10 science stories of 2013 — the stories that awed you, affected you, and made you rethink what was possible.

But let us not forget the stories that did just the opposite — the stories that irked you, disgusted you, and made you want to cry, “BS!”

[researchrobot1]

This is a tough list to make, but there are some perennial candidates: vaccines, abiotic genesis of oil, and Sasquatch DNA. ;)

[bitchebitch]

Girls are not machines that you put kindness coins into until sex falls out.

Porphyria R’lyeh

(via politepoet)

What kind of coins do they want, then? :-/

[researchrobot1]

If you haven't seen this meme yet, you will. The WH released a picture of the Prez holding a sign, Reddit style. This is just asking for it, IMO.

[nizdawgphd]

'Humans evolved after a female chimpanzee mated with a pig': Extraordinary claim made by American geneticist

The startling claim has been made by Eugene McCarthy, who is one of the world’s leading authorities on hybridisation in animals.

Seriously? what is this crap….

[researchrobot1]

First thought when I saw this... "Is it April 1st already?"