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oyfrog

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  • Did you go to college, why or why not?

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  • Yeah, I wanted to go and learn more shit, didn't matter what (and my parents didn't care either), I just wanted to learn more. Eventually landed on biology and got a BS. I still wanted to learn more so I got a PhD in biology. I'm a postdoc now and still learning and discovering cool things.

    Relative to my qualification i'm paid like shit and nothing about my position is permanent, so it's stressful. I love my job though, and don't regret my path through higher ed...except maybe that I'd like to have learned skills to be able to fix my own car.

  • I think there's an imposter amongus

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  • Yeah, preprints are becoming more common in bio too.

  • I think there's an imposter amongus

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  • Not always—it depends on the publisher for sure, and possibly the field (e.g., physics, chemistry).

    In biology, you have several models for peer review. Completely blind reviews where both reviewers and authors are anonymized. You also have semi blind models where the reviewers know the identities of the authors, but the authors don't know reviewers' identities. You also have open reviews where everyone knows one another's identities.

    In completely blind and semi-blind models, you occasionally have reviewers that reveal their identity.

  • How often do you use AI?

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  • I've got the ai search bullshit turned off for my Google searches.

    I occasionally use chatgpt to write awk scripts for me for work because I find awk difficult. The one liners it spits out are wrong 7/10 times, but it puts me in the right direction, so it's not completely useless. Now that I type this out, I wonder if it's hindering my awk-learning...

    It is pretty good at annotating code that already works, which is pretty convenient.

  • Removed

    Your childhood smells

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  • I didn't have the tape, but instead had the plastic rings that had a tiny bit of powder in it. I wonder if they had similar smells.

  • Name your favourite prehistoric tree.

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  • Arborescence is one of my favorite examples of convergent evolution .

  • Programming for the first time

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  • You forgot the part where you step on the rake in different ways to see which one whacks you in the face the fastest.

  • ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations

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  • It depends on how much you like QTE gameplay and turn based JRPGs. If neither appeals to you, then the refund was a great idea. If one or the other appeals to you, then I think it's worth sitting through because both gameplay mechanics are executed well enough and the narrative is good. If both appeal to you then you've missed out in getting a refund.

    I really enjoyed this game. The gameplay is intuitive, but challenging; the narrative is engaging; the soundtrack is incredible.

  • Ruth Lee, a Chinese-American woman, flying the flag of China while at the beach to avoid being mistaken for Japanese, Miami, USA, WW2, December 15, 1941

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  • I hate to be the "well ackshully" guy, but the US and Canada interred and relocated Japanese, German, and Italian Americans/Canadians during WWII. Japanese Americans get a lot of attention in this regard, but it wasn't just them (and not just the US).

    That's not to say that there wasn't racism, plenty of that too.

  • Dick

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  • The last detail about Switch is so cool—I wish they had kept it.

  • Frog........right.....

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  • Instructions not clear. All I got was goatse and a stinky after taste.

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  • Marriage can be tough.

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  • I heard when it's "that time of the month", his innerds get sensitive so he needs to rest by his heat lamp and ingest meals rectally—whole, of course.

  • Marriage can be tough.

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  • Hypothetical-- you can only choose two cuisines to eat for the rest of your life. What might they be?

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  • Japanese and Mexican for the sake of the question. It's what I grew up eating, and I hate the idea of being without my familiar comfort foods.

    Truthfully though, I love eating too much to limit myself regionally or to just two countries. There's so much I haven't tried.

  • Cough syrup

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  • "fetid" is great descriptor. It to me feels more visceral than "rancid".

    I think I disagree with "grape" being the worst though. Artificial grape flavor is the most honest one, be it medicine or soda. It's the distant cousin that shows up to the wedding or funeral in a t-shirt, shorts, and flip flops; it's the octagenerian emeritus faculty member that shows up to seminar and sits in the front row and sleeps through the presentation; it's the Kazaa (or Morpheus or Limewire) file labeled "Blink182.mp3.exe"—you look at it and you know exactly what you're gonna get.

  • how do you slice it??

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  • The anatomical answer is sagitally down the midline.

  • 🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡

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  • I felt that in the bone. Postdoc life is one foot getting ready to move and the other foot dreading every decision that led to the thought "A PhD is a good idea"

    It was a good idea, but holy shit is it all sorts of miserable.

  • TESTICLE 💖 SWANS

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  • We need to Talk

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  • Do lizard-people have hemipenes and cloacas?