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  • Do you feel your job is important and are you proud to do it?

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  • I'm happy with the work I do—I find it rewarding personally and the inkling of a possibility that it might be useful one day for any number of biological applications is exciting.

    Unfortunately, I am entirely replaceable, compensation is meh for the level of education, and society as a whole does not place much value in basic sciences so career prospects are bleak (and this was BEFORE the current administration).

  • In this house

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  • So, this line-up suggests there's room for a cross-over story where the football squad wearing the color changing dress pounds the main character's ass.

    Edit. Apparently it's a squad of unicorns that play football. Pardon my lack of attention to detail.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • Ooooof I forgot how great Newsroom was. I also really enjoyed West Wing.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • How many are there for the newest Hulu seasons? A little part of me wants to see the new ones, but the end of the comedy central reboot was so cathartic I don't want to spoil it.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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    • Futurama all the way up to the end of the comedy central reboot; I haven't seen the newest ones.
    • 30 Rock
    • Fargo
    • Derry girls
    • The Last of Us
    • Broadchurch
    • Slow horses
    • True Detective S1, 3, and 4.
    • Rome

    Edit:my original format was awful. Sorry about that :/

  • I mean... she's right.

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  • "become" implies it was something else to begin with. it started as a cess pool when it allowed slavery to persist past the declaration of independence.

  • Diphalia

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  • Thanks for joining penis and intermittent organ facts.

    Did you know that the "tail" of the male coastal tailed frog is actually an extension of the cloaca effectively acting as an intermittent organ?

    Reply 'more cock' for more facts about penises and intermittent organs.

  • Diphalia

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  • Hemipenes (and penis/intermittent organs) are really diverse in terms of size and shape. A lot of lizards and snakes have little nodules and barbs that vary from species to species. Not sure what the ornaments do, but it's interesting. Also interesting is that having two (i.e. one on each side) potentially means that there's a handedness in terms of the preferred side used for mating.

    Other fun facts about penises and other intermittent organs: cats and other felids have barbed penises that force ovulation in the female. Tangentially related are the pseudo penises of female hyenas.

    More fun facts: damselfly males have intermittent organs that are spoon shaped so they scrape out the sperm of rival males.

    Respond 'cock facts' to learn more about penises and intermittent organs.

    Respond 'stop' if you don't want to learn cool shit.

  • Scientist from all over lemmy. What is or was the most scientifically correct movie or at least made an honorable attemt?

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  • I took an astronomy class when I was an undergrad. We had a scene-by-scene breakdown of all the stupid shit in this movie.

  • Complex presentation slides: Powerpoint (or its alternatives) and Latex

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  • I'm a biologist/bioinformatician—a lot of my presentations require some schematic representation of the analysis or pipeline.

    I tend to build simple pipelines with PowerPoint and add animations (makes it easier for me to talk through step by step). If it's complex, I build parts in some other thing (R, illustrator/Photoshop), and animate the PDF/PNG in.

    Equations I try to avoid because most of my audience tends to gloss over them. On the occasion that I'm talking to more computational folks, I'll build the equation elsewhere, export it as an image, and animate it in with annotations.

    Again, I'm a biologist and present mostly to biologists, so some of this may seem stupid or nonsensical to folks in other fields.

  • FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance

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  • Wish granted. FM 105.3 will air the pledge of allegiance 24/7 recited by the most symbolically patriotic person in america—Donald J Trump.

    There are no ad breaks, no subscription fees. Just pure, uncut, America.

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  • For streaming music on my desktop I just use YouTube with an ad blocker and just look for playlists of artists I like. i don't stream music from my phone so I don't have any suggestions there.

    In terms of the original topic: alternatives to adobe and office suite are too obtuse for me to use. This is more of a me problem—my productivity takes a hit from the learning curve and that isn't worth it for me.

    I use Transmit on my MacBook, which IMO is much better than CyberDuck and FileZilla. The UI for both of these programs are dated and confusing. I wish WinSCP can be ported to macos, but I highly doubt that'll ever happen.

    I much prefer the native terminal on macos than the alternatives that people use (e.g., iTerm2). I don't get much of a benefit from switching to an alternative, so I don't see the point. I'm sure someone with different needs finds them useful though.

    The Apple mail also seems to be the most functional email client, but I've only tried outlook, eM, and thunderbird. I still use Outlook because I need to keep my personal and work email separate. On my Windows machine I use thunderbird currently but considering switching back eM...

    There's probably more that I can't think of right now.

  • I still haven't figured out how to do this

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  • I just did this yesterday with footers. Create section breaks at the end of 5 and 6. Then click on the footer, unlink it, then delete. Then you whisper to yourself "fuck yeah".

  • What song should be the national anthem of your country?

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  • I have very, very strong opinions about the the US national anthem (the Star Spangled Banner). It's too long, too boring, the words are weird because it was a poem first. As a kid, I had a hard time remembering the lyrics to the song (to put it in perspective, I had no problem remembering the Canadian national anthem after couple listens of the version that was on the South Park Movie OST). Furthermore, the US national anthem is written by a pro-slavery dick head. Lastly, 99% of people do not have the vocal range to hit the highest notes.

    You know what is a great, catchy song, that anyone can sing? Woodie Guthrie's This Land is Your Land. I am half willing to drop the lines critical of the US government, if it means that it would be chosen as the national anthem. (Edit: grammar)

  • I want your rules

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  • CA$H BONE$

  • 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.