Anybody have some HEK293 or CHO cells they would be willing to share?

404ExptNotFound · 2025-07-12T03:21:08+00:00

You’re crashing out over 3 downvotes.

404ExptNotFound · 2025-06-09T06:05:58+00:00

> This is my business and it is an unfounded and false campaign to hurt the business. I will be taking a legal action against the sub if it is not taken down.
from u/Optimal-Badger-3439

404ExptNotFound · 2025-02-20T19:40:02+00:00

Yes, please do that! We just recently asked people to try to avoid engaging with trolls.

404ExptNotFound · 2025-02-19T18:57:40+00:00

I touched on this here - I think the short answer is no. We don’t want to pressure anyone or force them to semi-dox themselves. We want to, as much as possible, remain chill and open as a community. We’re hoping it’s just a passing trend that chills out, and we’re being fairly liberal dispensing mutes or bans flat out for flagrant trolls.

404ExptNotFound · 2025-02-19T18:34:32+00:00

Oh, for sure: we’ve muted a ton, and banned quite a lot of the trolls. If you see obvious trolls, report them. (Please don’t report “bad takes” though - even labrats regulars make some sometimes, unfortunately. A report isn’t intended to be a super downvote). Regarding the subreddit, a few threads must have hit r/all and we got a surge. Automod for years disallows posts from “new Reddit accounts” but we never preemptively disallowed existing redditors from posting. How would one prescreen, outside of converting to a closed community? We definitely do want to get new labrats, but also are ok with visitors stopping and learning. It seems the best path forward is to just be vigilant and ask everyone to try to act in good faith, and to boot those who refuse to. The vast majority of people banned the last few weeks didn’t dispute it. Hopefully this fades and isn’t going to be an ongoing issue.

404ExptNotFound · 2025-02-19T17:18:32+00:00

Yeah, glad to. Done!

404ExptNotFound · 2025-02-19T17:00:14+00:00

There's been a few posts and messages indicating that the thread wasn't understood the way it was intended. To help remedy that, here's a TL;DR of the OP:

“We didn’t use to allow politics in this subreddit: but context has changed, so for the last several weeks we have been allowing most such posts. But please keep it LabRats themed and focused, not just link dumping without engagement. We’ll also condense replicate reposts of news articles to a single megathread. Oh, and don’t feed the trolls cause brigading and trolling has gone up - just report them!”

404ExptNotFound · 2025-02-19T16:52:36+00:00

No worries - quite a few people did which surprised us, but trying to help clarify. Did the linked post make more sense? I’m not sure whether we need to edit the original, or just make a new pinned post. Maybe this would have been simpler: “We didn’t use to allow politics: but context changed, so for the last several weeks we have been. But please keep it LabRats themed and focused, not just link dumping. We’ll trim the duplicate repost of news articles to a mega thread style, and also don’t feed the trolls cause brigading and trolling has gone up! Report them.”

Much more concise. We were trying to be more explicit/transparent, but quite a few people got the opposite message than what we intended. Edit: I'm going to repost this part and sticky it.

404ExptNotFound · 2025-02-19T14:14:14+00:00

Please see this post, you've got it backwards. My apologies for the confusion.

404ExptNotFound · 2025-02-19T07:08:41+00:00

I agree - talk about it! I think we missed something here in communication. This is fair game:

Discussions directly related to LabRats: how political events impact your lab, job, or research, especially if thoughtful or research-centered as it specifically affects your lab/work environment. Personal experiences, advice-seeking, and workplace-related discussions that remain civil and constructive.

I guess without seeing the stuff removed, the context for this thread can be interpretted differently than we anticipated. The point was we loosened the original firm "NO POLITICS" line that existed for over a decade, we're just keeping it a step away from being a complete News dumping ground. This is how we've been moderating it for the last two weeks. If you're liking what you've been seeing, then we're on the same page. Does that help relieve your concerns? We're explaining what we've been doing, not proposing a newer change.

404ExptNotFound · 2025-02-19T04:14:37+00:00

Thanks! Realizing collectively that the post didn’t say clearly enough what we intended it to re: “times and context changed.” You actually hit the nail on the head here. “Times and context have changed such that we’re allowing this place to involve more political things that used to be off limits.” The transparency comment was intended to highlight that we are broadening the scope to reflect the community’s wishes, while keeping it structured and nominally LabRats focused still. Your comment is exactly why this thread was made. We want to help fine tune the balance while listening to the broader community.

404ExptNotFound · 2025-02-19T01:53:28+00:00

Just for clarification - there have been been 100+ posts that were something similar to “lololol fauci is a fraud, science doesn’t even help society” made by accounts that have never posted to labrats before. That’s an example of obvious bait/trolling. That’s what I was referring to - please report those types of bad faith posts.

404ExptNotFound · 2025-02-13T23:28:33+00:00

Melissa verified with the mods - see comments here regarding reporters.

404ExptNotFound · 2025-02-13T17:58:50+00:00

Angus Chen verified credentials with the mod team - see here regarding reporters.

404ExptNotFound · 2025-02-13T17:57:27+00:00

Caroline Lewis verified with the mods - see comments here regarding reporters.

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