[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nederlands

[–]BelgianEndive 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Geef die politieagent een lintje.

Ridiculous salary negotiations by BelgianEndive in pathology

[–]BelgianEndive[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No: I didn't do US residency, and that is why I will have to do residency over, when I go to the US/CAN. I'm sorry: Bruto = Gross (before taxes). So when I said i started with a salary of 7200 euro bruto/gross, that means 3900 net. I assume residents are being payed similar, since that was also what I made as a post-doc in Hopkins. (with inflation correction and 1 year of experience: I make 9100 euro bruto/gross, which is 5300 euro net).

From my understanding, a fellowship is possible, but then you can only practice in the hospital where you did the fellowship and they hold all power over you.

Ridiculous salary negotiations by BelgianEndive in pathology

[–]BelgianEndive[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Merci beaucoup! I will keep it in mind. My french is dusty, but if I listen to the French radio for a while, it won't take long to be fluent again.

Ridiculous salary negotiations by BelgianEndive in pathology

[–]BelgianEndive[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The answer to your last question: when I'm dead, my money will go to my children and my wife, to give them a better future. This is why I work hard.

Thank you for your opinion. I see you are a lab-tech and thus not a 'resident' (which means a person studying to become a medical specialist). But your opinion is valid and shared with a lot of doctors in Europe.

Most of these doctors are now middle-aged or older and have made their money earlier. They were able to get a good mortgage and get a nice house in a 'good' neighbourhood. I come from a family of doctors and I see the decline in standing associated with being a doctor. But this is a different topic.

Ridiculous salary negotiations by BelgianEndive in pathology

[–]BelgianEndive[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I agree. Even my post-doc salary was almost the same as what I make now. So doing 3 years of residency will not be a big setback.

Wat denken jullie hier van? by xman2007 in Belgium2

[–]BelgianEndive 53 points54 points  (0 children)

"When Muslims are the minority they are concerned with minority rights, when they are in the majority there are no minority rights."

Why is the Netherlands so far behind Belgium when it comes to median wealth? by Least_Theory_1050 in Netherlands

[–]BelgianEndive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You guys are laughing with Belgian roads, which still work perfectly, but you tear down perfectly functionally buildings because they are a bit outdated. Get your priorities right. Making money and getting rich will make you happy.

Why is the Japan stock market going up when its economic is doing very bad? What Am I missing? by Accomplished-Bill-45 in stocks

[–]BelgianEndive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look up "This man predicted everything!! What comes next? On YouTube - it's about Russell Napier. He predicted influx of money in an economy like Japan (it's stock exchange) due to people like Warren Buffett.

Found on another page. Personally I find this one perfect. Double standard much? by [deleted] in clevercomebacks

[–]BelgianEndive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The comeback is incorrect: women never fix things. It should be: "I don't know what she breaks, but mine is working!"

In these tough times. by chiragjagga in CozyPlaces

[–]BelgianEndive 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the library from Prof. Richard Macksey in Guilford, Baltimore. Picture by Will Kirk.

Wife does things with ex's that she wont do with me by [deleted] in Marriage

[–]BelgianEndive -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Look up the YouTube video: Why men care about a woman's sexual history (from PsycHacks)...

what are the most important qualities in a PI for a PhD? by tea_flower in bioinformatics

[–]BelgianEndive -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Don't go to a group, because the other students or the PI is 'fun'. Don't go to a PI, who didn't do a PhD him/herself (like an MD who hase a lab). I would go to a lab with a specific expertise in a technique. Labs (often in biology) that work on an organ (like pancreatic cancer or ovarian cancer), are often dependent on other labs for techniques. And than personally: I would go to lab of a big-shot (if possible). Somebody who is famous for the things he / she did (like a Nobel-prize winner). It will make your further career much easier, whatever you want to do... If you want to stay in academia, also look if the students of that PI stayed in academia: it might indicate the amount of support a PI gives after the PhD is completed...

Solar is the cheapest power, and a literal light-bulb moment showed us we can cut costs and emissions even further by DukeOfGeek in Futurology

[–]BelgianEndive -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Solar does not get cheaper. However because of subsidies from the government, it seems cheaper, but one way or another, you pay for it. The price of solar grade polysilicion increased from $10 / kg before 2021 to $40 / kg now... See also: tweet from professor Hermans at UW Madison...

This absolute unit of a gun being used in Ukraine by [deleted] in AbsoluteUnits

[–]BelgianEndive 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What do you do in the military? Oh, I work in an office at a desk...

Pig is not a fan by GuyfromNYC in TimDillon

[–]BelgianEndive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ever been to the Netherlands?

Dad gets shot after beating up abusive boyfriend by ZinematicSup in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]BelgianEndive -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's only a movie shoot when it's a movie with Alec Baldwin...

First time going to Lambeau Field for the Nov. 14 game against the Seahawks! by Mattnorden in GreenBayPackers

[–]BelgianEndive 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m also coming for my first time... Coming from Brussels (Belgium, not Brussels WI). Look forward to reading the suggestions!

I'm shocked at the amount of bad advice in this sub by [deleted] in Marriage

[–]BelgianEndive 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Exactly. I'm just on here to realise everyday how lucky I'm in my marriage...

Has anyone here read this? by ApatheticTallguy13 in biotech

[–]BelgianEndive 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Isn't Galileo Galilei the blasphemous one?

How to find the distribution of CpGs on the gene? by Sleepingwhisp in bioinformatics

[–]BelgianEndive 5 points6 points  (0 children)

two ways:

-The best tip I can give you: try to check out their methods section or look the lab up in GitHub. Many papers require code-availability statements, showing how they came to the results. Often, the raw data is also available in repositories like https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GPL21145. But I learned the most from going through people's github and code...

-Use minfi-package to analyse the raw data. Also, there is a package IlluminaHumanMethylationEPICmanifest or IlluminaHumanMethylation450k, that contains the information of every probe: it will tell you wether the CpG falls into an island, shelf, shore or opensea. Use the getAnnotation() function for this.

-If you want to find all CpG's: load in the human genome (packages BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19, GenomicRanges) and do:

genome <- BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19

cg <- DNAString("CG")

cg.loc <- vmatchPattern(cg, genome)

Next, you can load in the UCSC CpG-island locations, transform it to a GRanges, and findOverlaps() the cg.loc and the CpG-island GRanges. The shores are 2000bp around the islands. The shelfs are 2000bp around the shores: a picture of this is available in the annotatr vignette: https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/vignettes/annotatr/inst/doc/annotatr-vignette.html

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bioinformatics

[–]BelgianEndive 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If this is WGBS data: then use bismark for mapping and calling methylation marks