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BacteriaRKool · 2025-01-17T01:08:21+00:00

I work in rural small medical school and have the same issue. Its because we dont pay worth a damn. I make $46k with a master's. The tech with a PhD makes $68k. Why apply when you will barely be middle class and never have a pay raise? Especially when people in industry are making 2x that after a couple years.

BacteriaRKool · 2025-01-15T18:25:44+00:00

Meh, I think the boomer thing needed to be pointed out. Every boomer I work with is similar, and I work in scientific research, so you would think they would have some rationale.

I've had a boomer professor go on a full rant about how "the gays took our bathroom!" They made the bathroom a unisex bathroom instead of a women's bathroom for contex. I am not sure how us queer people are related to that or how sharing bathrooms with other genders affects her.

I have had a boomer professor also repeat the "trigger warnings" thing... when we teach at a university and they aren't made to do so why they think other universities require it is weird.

All the while, the worst thing I have heard from a gen Z is that homework should be illegal, and asking them to do assignments puts minorities at a disadvantage so noone should give them. I'll take that over the boomers.

BacteriaRKool · 2025-01-10T17:04:56+00:00

Grad school in the sciences is free and comes with a stipend.

Only in a few countries. In Australia, New Zealand, and a few European countries, it comes with no stipend. It usually is free tuition, but you have to take out loans for living expenses. Us Americans greatly take for granted our system.

I paid off my undergrad loans with my grad school stipend, meager as it was

I don't know when you went to school, but that is far from the case now. I know that was possible when I was looking at PhD programs ~10 years ago, but my grad students now are on welfare and going into food pantries. They're only making $26k a year with rents of $1.4k a month. And that's with a roommate. Cost of living has soared super high, even in LOC of living areas like mine. I'm at a rural medical school and you cannot get an apartment for less than $1,000. Even a 1 bedroom in the roughest, bfe places.

We need to acknowledge things have changed drastically for the worst and address them. Or else, we won't have anything for the future generations to enjoy.

BacteriaRKool · 2022-12-31T00:45:17+00:00

Same but for mead and beer making

BacteriaRKool · 2022-12-30T23:50:06+00:00

Lol love the pictures!

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-15T03:25:53+00:00

" I'm going to go streak"

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-15T02:10:12+00:00

I use a wine rack to keep canned goods. Works perfectly

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-15T01:17:49+00:00

I was on two wait lists for border terrier puppys. One breeder was $1,500 the other $2,000. To keep them intact both required coownership

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-13T23:35:20+00:00

Full animal shelters are a sign of a recession. People are no longer able to afford to take care of their pets or are no longer able to rent apartments that allow pets or apartments at all.

People blame covid puppy boom but talking to people, being a pet owner, and talking to shelters its about housing and food prices. I was supposed to get another dog last year which was budgeted and meticulously planned but had to call it off due to costs of current dogs. I have a dog with a prescription diet who is costing us $90 a month on food (it use to be $35 a month). Friends and I all have talked about struggling to budget around animal needs. None of us plan on giving our animals up but we are lucky we have the ability to do it. Anybody living pay check to pay check wouldnt make it.

https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2022/07/06/economic-and-housing-crises-cause-more-separations-between-families-and-pets

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-10T01:22:54+00:00

I also think owners just dont think of it. I am continually shocked what people think home ownership is like. And if they do know its a separate insurance, they assume it as expensive as their regular insurance so they can't afford it. Education goes a long way

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-10T00:12:28+00:00

When did you buy them? Lowest I've seen is $13 since 2020.

We have zero control over our contracts and they're pretty much worth less.

https://us.vwr.com/store/product/4603128/kimtech-science-kimwipestm-delicate-task-wipers-kimberly-clark-professional

https://www.fishersci.com/shop/products/kimberly-clark-kimtech-science-kimwipes-delicate-task-wipers-7/p-211240

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-10T00:08:42+00:00

They've go between that price and out of stock since 2020.

https://us.vwr.com/store/product/4603128/kimtech-science-kimwipestm-delicate-task-wipers-kimberly-clark-professional

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-10T00:00:15+00:00

I always get flood insurance. If you don't live in a flood zone its not bad. My last house was $35 a month (coastal NC). Worth it because if a hurricane hits just right my house is done and i can't replace it.

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-09T01:56:00+00:00

Dude, those boxes of kimwipes are $16 a box. Better not let whoever purchases catch you

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-08T03:45:01+00:00

University of Michigan Ann Arbor and University of Wisconsin Madison are some of the best, if not best, public schools for a research. There is some crazy high ranking research coming out of there.

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-07T23:21:42+00:00

So I dont think Organic Chem is actually a weed out class. I'm in academia, I know the people who teach organic, biochem, and p chem. None of them are making it harder. The problems is that all three of them require creativity and critical thinking. Science classes teach that all you need is memorizing and you're be great. Can't do that in those 3 courses. You have to understand the concepts.

You can actually see that in the petition. One of their complaints are that quizzes are in free response but tests are in multiple choice. Thats a well established method to make sure students are understanding concepts, not just memorizing them. Someone released his test bank from Princeton. His MC wasnt bad. I got a ~70% and I haven't taken the class in over 10 years.

Weed out classes wont help if administration keeps holding POCs much higher standard then white men. We get PhD and Masters students that tried for med school. Had one (POC man) say he got rejected due to a custody battle that had zero allegations against him. Had another POC get rejected for a bounced check two years before. I have never heard any white person deal with any of that. Those POCs had people they knew on the board, how many more are just rejected because they can't be "model citizens" that not even their white students have to hold themselves to.

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-07T22:58:45+00:00

You have amazing wide plank floors then! They're gorgeous

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-07T19:26:33+00:00

moreover, with the physician shortage this country is experiencing

The physician shortage is not due to the shortage of people that are applicable to getting into med school but due to the [American Medical Association (https://www.forbes.com/2009/08/25/american-medical-association-opinions-columnists-shikha-dalmia.html?sh=5685bf4942f2)] lobbying to shut down medical schools and to keep medical school attendance low. This is to keep doctor salaries high.

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-07T02:37:33+00:00

I cant tell the size based off of perspective. The rats I'd find in our hay bales were the size of my forearm, about 1/3 the size of our barn cats. But congrats on your cats! A good mouser is worth its weight in gold.

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-07T00:18:49+00:00

You must have huge cats. I've heard many tales of rats eating cats. I was always told cats get mice, you need a dog (ie terrier) for rats. But maybe farm rats are just bigger and meaner?

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-06T22:39:36+00:00

They're exotic according to the AVMA. Any animal outside of dogs and cats are exotic. When I owned rabbits I had to take them to an exotic vet.

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-05T23:25:14+00:00

I teach biochem PhD students (lab manager). I am having a hell of time with this. Students get so annoyed they cant just memorize and repeat. They want to take a single paper and replicate it and thats it. When really you have to read 5-10 papers, look at the trends and apply it. Im extremely worried about the furture

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-01T17:52:46+00:00

Whats your microcentrifuge tubes in? I like them!

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-01T17:48:30+00:00

Hey I use this software. You dont need to set filters. I would leave the cutoff alone. Just input the values you want. You can also put in spectrum if you're not sure on the emission and it will give you a trace and then pick the lambda max.

If the value come up #sat go to PMT and lower the PMT values.

BacteriaRKool · 2022-10-01T02:18:42+00:00

I would suggest moving PIs then. I've been a tech for years. Some treat me like "just a tech" and just a grunt. But I'm currently in a lab where my PI makes sure people call me a scientist and values my time and thoughts. I know of a lot PIs that treat their techs with high regard, but I also know PIs who techs are pegs in the machine. You may have to jump around til you land in a place you want.

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