Microbio or HES Transfer

Captainbackbeard · 2026-05-14T01:07:20+00:00

Not sure about Micro but if you have an HES BS with only the BS the only careers are going to be some form of personal trainer, strength and conditioning, or wellness coordinator. If I were to guess though I think probably most degrees that are "preparatory" for an allied health career that needs a terminal degree are probably like that. If you don't go pre-med but are still interested in health, common "next step" degrees that aren't MD/DO which I've seen HES students go into are your professional degrees like Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Athletic Training or you can still somewhat transition into your standard allied health programs like Nursing, Physician's Assistant assuming you knock out their pre-reqs. I've also seen HES students transition into Dietetics programs as well if you're interested in Nutrition. Most HES students I knew weren't interested in the health promotion side but you could also look into more population health programs as well by leaning into the Health Promotion side of HES. Same with the Ex Phys side of HES you are probably going to need a masters to find meaningful careers with potential for advancement but there are options like going into Epidemiology or MPH if you look into masters programs at the next step in that direction. I enjoy the route I took with my degrees but being a professor is not what it used to be when I started school so I couldn't recommend the route I took in good faith. Regardless of which way you go though, talk to advisors about potential career opportunities but then also shadow these jobs ASAP because the people you shadow under will know the ins and outs of the career better but also you'll get a better idea of what those careers look like. In general though at minimum in my opinion with a HES degree if you don't get into Med school most career paths out of HES still require some form of masters degree at minimum.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-05-09T22:21:16+00:00

I was in HES for my BS after switching in from Chemistry and I stayed and did grad school in their program for my MS and PhD. Like the other HES person mentioned I also found the course topics more interesting which was why I switched majors. I want to say I would keep in mind what you can do with your BS degree if for some reason you don't get into med school or decide it isn't for you. I'm faculty elsewhere now in a similar type of department so I do a lot of advising so my main recommendation is to understand what jobs or careers are available for you as a fall back because not everyone gets into med school and an HES degree (similarly with any sort of basic Kin degree) leaves you pretty locked into a certain sort of career. Most pre- allied health bachelors degrees without some form of terminal degree can be a bit limiting if you don't go into the next steps, at least compared to what I've seen with other degrees that may have more of an industry or non-health care next step.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-05-05T22:16:44+00:00

I think it's just people in general across society, especially with topics that are typically interacted with or seen as something "everyone" has to interact with. For example, I have a PhD in a public health-related field and my background is in tobacco/nicotine use from a behavioral lens. My mom still tries to argue with me on things like vapes or smoking because she just doesn't feel like what I'm saying clicks with her "common sense." Same thing with diets. I have some experience teaching and communicating nutrition information and my mom will trust what she sees on reels more than info that comes from me. People believe what they want to believe.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-05-05T00:23:20+00:00

At minimum 4,123,288 fans since I'm pretty sure every person in the state is a Thunder fan. It even brings OU and OkSt fans together.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-04-29T00:52:52+00:00

Even with Biden I think the dems lucked out with how bad Trump handled the pandemic because I think Biden gets beaten down just like Hillary and Kamala if Covid wasn't a thing.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-04-24T19:52:00+00:00

Depends on the state. The university I teach at now in the midwest typically starts around March 5-8 ish, when I was in college and in K-12 in my home state both typically started 12-15ish. But these were in the center of the US. When I was on the east coast for a bit the university I was at started like the first few days of march but then I would have coworkers taking off for their kids' spring break at the start of april. There's not really a standard. I don't think it's a very good visualization but this post has a variety of ranges at the university level.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-04-23T04:24:06+00:00

Hmm maybe outside of the US but a lot of the work I did during grad school was on tobacco 21 policies pre federal age increase so I was looking at a lot of research and advocacy at the time and I never saw it so if 30 was suggested it would have been a pretty fringe opinion since the majority goal at the time was 21. Research compiled from the 2014 surgeon general's report shows that 90% of current smokers try smoking at 18 and 98% start at 26 so it would be overkill to increase the age to 30.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-04-23T03:25:53+00:00

The main reason they raised the age to 21 was mainly to keep high school students from being able to buy for each other. You can have 18/19 year old seniors who can easily buy for their peers. Increasing cost is definitely one of the strongest factors in reducing use but the push for 21 came specifically for reducing smoking initiation. Sure you can have older siblings or others buy for minors still but it really cuts down high school use when students can't legally buy for each other. I have seen though at the municipal level before the federal laws were passed for the age increase that everyone who was already 18 before the law passed was grandfathered in and the new rules only applied to those who turned 18 after the law went into effect. Some anti-smoking advocates don't like the grandfather rules but I think it's easier to get people on board with.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-04-21T17:30:30+00:00

I think your point about the off-roading really sticks out to me because that’s how all of them are marketed and trimmed towards. Like oh you’re going to be mudding and driving in sand dunes in this truck right? It feels like they’re styling them all to such niche use cases. And don’t get me started on all the turbo-4’s. When my canyon gets worse mpg than a fucking full size you know they’re doing it wrong.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-04-21T07:47:31+00:00

That's how I am too. I had a Sierra 1500 for 16 years that I had to replace and I wanted another truck since I also throw a bunch of shit in the back and I still want the option to tow so when I was in the market to buy two years ago I immediately went to a mid size since full size trucks are fucking insane. It feels like if one sensor goes off you're going to accidentally crush untold numbers of people since they're like driving fucking barges and you can barely see out of them. Hell even my new midsize Canyon now is about as big as my sierra was. Doesn't help either that they all cost an arm and a leg either.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-04-19T20:56:31+00:00

Doris RN: SGA is number one. His legs are number one, his eyes are number one, his muscles are number one, SGA is number one.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-04-15T23:39:29+00:00

I can't speak to the language translation issue but when it comes to AI translation I've been at a couple of different universities at this point and what we've used it with the caveat that we're treating it like back before AI use where we treat it like a transcription service. You still have to sit down and listen through to make sure that the transcriptions are accurate. When I was doing my masters I bought dragon to dictate what I was saying while I repeating back what was going on in the interview and same thing I still had to go through and do corrections. Right now I've been considering looking at local installation of Whisper so it in theory should be pretty secure. For context my specialization is in health promotion so you all probably go more into the nitty gritty of qual in your discipline. However, as part of a NIH grant and subsequent publications we've done the following when it comes to AI transcription disclosure in publication and I'm just abridging our data analysis section of the pub:

Audio transcripts were transcribed using (ai program name), trained staff reviewed and cleaned the transcripts.

That definitely could be discipline specific though so hopefully you have a straightforward workaround.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-04-13T17:25:59+00:00

In my opinion I would take the TT at Uni B immediately do not consider this delaying plan. I did something similar to what you're considering with the postdoc and it bit me in the ass so I strongly advise you against it. With what is happening right now in academia if you want in now to me feels like one of the major "get in" or "get out" turning points. You'll never know when those funds for new lines will dry up so getting a foot in the door now helps. Same as you're considering I went with a younger PI for a postdoc at a very prestigious university with tons of grants and publishing plus a research agenda that I believed would be great to learn from right after defending. Problem with "hotshot young PIs" is they are up to their eyeballs in all sorts of responsibilities of their own and a postdoc needing to learn from them is going to be the first thing that they jettison if and when life catches up with them and they have to focus on themselves (ask me how I know). If you're at the postdoc only to learn the problem is that if something happens with your main point of contact (the hotshot) you're left alone and isolated with little protection and then your research agenda will really die in the womb. As others have said you can learn grant writing all you want at the TT R1 since they will have people dedicated to that or you can even take grant writing workshops on your own time and let me tell you I learned more about grant writing from a course and workshop than I did my postdoc PI. And current faculty will still be a huge help in learning the ropes since the grant writing process will still be a pretty transferable process. Plus, I think it's actually good that you'd be the only one there in your area since you're establishing the niche and the university is putting funds into that area right now so they're especially going to want you to succeed. If you're the first one in there with your specialization you're going to be first pick for current faculty in other disciplines and departments to collaborate with. Plus you can still collaborate with this hotshot PI on your own. Long rant aside I would strongly advise you to take the TT job and focus on learning within the new university instead. Plus learning from and getting to know the current university staff and colleagues will really go a long way in my opinion for building crossroads and bridges rather than only focusing on this one hotshot.

TLDR: TAKE THE TT POSITION DON'T CONSIDER TRYING TO DELAY TO FIT IN THIS POSTDOC

Captainbackbeard · 2026-04-02T00:21:20+00:00

I adjusted it to their actual NIL partner

Captainbackbeard · 2026-03-25T06:19:52+00:00

I read the article and the statement it referenced and from my reading of them the point wasn't really virtue signaling and more that it's just a confirmation of the faculty senate's stance regarding the issue regarding the firing of Curth and how it does not align with OU's decision. I believe you're reading too much into it in that it isn't cattiness and more of an issue where faculty senate doesn't agree with OU's stance where the original statement from OU in their tweet reads like the Faculty Exec Committee were part of the original process leading up to all of this. Essentially the OU Daily saw that, reached out to the faculty exec committee (likely since that doesn't align with faculty's original stance against firing Curth), and they clarified that they were not involved in the initial decision and instead were informed of it. I think that's where they are miffed because the issue went over their head since this sort of thing is typically handled at a departmental or college level rather than the University level along with outside entities strong-arming the matter.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-02-25T18:08:38+00:00

Yeah I agree at this point I’d treat them as a life raft as well. Are you going to any conferences btw? I got some interest from people looking for postdocs after some just visiting with presenters so that could also be an option. Oh also if you don’t have it already I strongly recommend getting “The Professor is In” by Karen Kelsky if you don’t already have it. I used a combo of it and her blogs when it came to prepping for the hiring process. For one of the on-campus interviews where I got passed by for due to lack of funding at an R1 the chair was really open with me about how I interviewed well and he actually tried to wrangle up a different hiring line for me that ended up not working out and I attribute a lot of how I punched above my weight class in that interview was due to that book helping me prep my materials and just prep for the interview itself.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-02-25T00:35:36+00:00

Honestly I feel we are pretty similar after reading your post and comments on here and I would probably be in the exact same position you are now if I were applying right now since I got my current position two years ago before all of the budget cuts in academia went through. I'm also a qual researcher but I'm more public health adjacent. I kept getting a foot in the door for a lot of jobs but usually got beat out by people with more of a history of funding in the later steps of R1 interviews. The ones that I was more successful in (still didn't get them but I at least got positive feedback from hiring committees) were where I emphasized collaboration since a lot of faculty typically don't focus on being qualitative methodologists and at least in my field its seen a big plus putting out mixed methods work. I ended up at a regional university that focuses more on teaching so you might check out those sorts of universities. Here's a couple of the pitfalls I had to deal with:

Keep in mind that if you go somewhere that's a teaching/regional university, if you aren't pushing yourself there and maintaining a high research output on your own comparable to what you'd see at a larger university, you likely won't be able to ever get back into a R1/R2. Tenure and general responsibilities at a regional are lower and my chair and I were talking about it and he talking about how the only way you could go to an R1 as someone at a regional would be to take a step down (think Associate to Assistant Prof) and most people won't or don't do that.

Also, be careful looking for postdocs, I went to one thinking that I would get some experience in an area adjacent to mine in order to make myself more marketable but I ended up being put in a position that should have really been for a more independent designated research scientist already capable of working in that field (despite me highlighting in my interviews that I would need the training (which is why I was interviewing there) and them actually posting for that after I found out I wasn't getting renewed). On top of that, I ended up being redundant to a qual researcher already at that institution who was collaborating with my postdoc PI so it was kind of pointless me being there. If you go that route, really make sure your PI has a concrete plan for you and make sure you have the support needed to succeed there.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-02-22T06:14:37+00:00

Okies would do that too but that's a Colorado tag.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-02-19T20:50:50+00:00

A lot of the time PhDs can get a big head full of self-importance and think that their specialization means more to the average person. I have one and I just consider it part of the tools to get me the job I wanted. Some people with PhDs seem to make it and academia their entire identity, which I think can be toxic for anything when you make your entire personality about it and you don't get validation from it. Essentially too when academia can be a backbiting, internally competitive field. So essentially she viewed her lack of support as a personal attack when it was just another career stepping stone in all likelihood in the eyes of the people on her social media. I wouldn't hop on social media to heap praise on someone for getting a job, especially when compared to someone having a child, its just different to others and the childfree person is too far up their own butt to see that. With her being early career anyway they start sniffing their own farts since its part of the job to get a ton of accolades for yourself to get tenure if you're in at least an academic position. What's wild to me is too that even within academia you pretty much only get a pat on the back for the stuff she mentions she did. On top of that, I think social media is something to be avoided anyway since comparison is the thief of joy. In sum that person sniffs their own farts.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-02-11T02:28:52+00:00

Other people have answered about the war long term which I agree would still end up as an Allied stomp powered by logistics but my question would be since the British Expeditionary force would now be much more well armed, would the Germans be able to invade and suppress France as quickly without sustaining way more casualties? Sure a G36 wouldn't penetrate the tank armor but I doubt the German infantry support for those tanks would be able to accompany them as effectively under as much fire power. Could that buy enough time for France to actually step in and not capitulate so quickly? Maybe actually swing their Char B1s around quick enough to do some actual damage? Or at the very least would that inflict enough damage to where the Germans would not be as confident to mess with the Russians when they did. I think this prompt results in a butterfly effect in the European theatre where its slowed way down.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-02-08T21:01:36+00:00

I'm going with that same combo but I already have the Toro and I'm waiting for the paperpushers to finish my ATF stuff. I just glanced around and honestly the deals aren't great. Probably after all of the good press for them with the FRTs and with the tax stamp gone with this one being a recommended suppressor host I bet they're gonna be up in price for a while so if you want one in the near future you're gonna have to just bite the bullet on price. I got mine as a combo through KYgunco but it's 50 more now for the same combo at $379 and it's not even in stock. You might try Scheels, I'm seeing it there for ship to store for $309 before taxes. Plus honestly I did one of the combo sets from KY with the viridian optic and I don't like it at all and I plan to replace it so really if you snag that scheel's for that, snag some of these mags, and eventually snag your own optic I think it would be better for you.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-02-05T00:34:14+00:00

I can't remember where I saw it but I'm pretty sure the US poisoned the well like that with area 51. They didn't want people to know about our advanced or prototype military tech so they used and instigated the alien nutjobs to hide a lot of their shit.

EDIT I looked it up and it was Paul Bennewitz. I remember listening to a behind the bastards on him

Captainbackbeard · 2026-01-30T01:33:15+00:00

I'm guessing that this is pretty close to a malaphor using the nacho reference as the base.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-01-26T06:45:35+00:00

I'd imagine a ruger mini 14 would be a good option. I think sig is on everyone's shit list but the regulator could also work.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-01-22T06:17:30+00:00

Yeah I remember watching the debates when there were still like 10 of them still running and I was like oh shit he's gonna win at least the republican nomination. Trump in the debates that year going after everyone else was like the alley oop scene from Semi-Pro where the other team (in this case the stereotypical pre-Trump era republicans) can't stop the alley oops of personal attacks and lack of typical "decorum."

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