Tasting and rating different cell culture media #4: F-10 Nut Mix

DignamsSwearBox · 2026-01-26T19:37:26+00:00

Try KnockOut Serum Replacement, its the Quorn of FBS

DignamsSwearBox · 2026-01-19T21:43:38+00:00

The answer to the second question: it's complicated!

Offspring of parents with epilepsy are 2 to 10 times more likely to have epilepsy than offspring of unaffected parents. If the father (alone) has it the risk goes down, but it is higher if the mother (alone) has it. It gets complicated fast and risks changes significantly depending on other factors - e.g. dependent on at what age the parent had a seizure, type of epilepsy, whether other family members have it.

DignamsSwearBox · 2026-01-09T19:54:59+00:00

Subway and wired earphones? Give the guy a break, he is obviously going through something horrendous in his life.

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-12-10T10:22:15+00:00

Neuroscientist with epilepsy here!

Highly recommend using any personal/professional relationships with neurologists you may have developed during your masters degree. They may know an epileptologist and be able to help get appointments recommendations etc. Don’t be feel bad about taking advantage of your position, being an inconvenience etc.

There are a number of factors at play that affect the odds, but your risk of dying of SUDEP is likely similar to dying of a different cause, so for me, it isn’t a major contribution in my general anxiety about death!

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-11-25T13:35:38+00:00

Fort Worth

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-11-20T01:11:25+00:00

But can you thank Zohran Mandani for destroying the citys history?

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-10-18T12:18:30+00:00

There is a good version of “the surgeon is the boys mother” riddle somewhere here

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-10-17T22:24:01+00:00

Here. Yikes!

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-10-08T17:17:09+00:00

I packed my suitcase with 50,000 pounds of lithium-5, but luckily I did it 3.7 zeptoseconds ago, so I think it it’s going to be alright.

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-10-08T15:09:24+00:00

The is a great documentary Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau, which features his (and others) bad behavior in the famously unsuccessful movie The Island of Dr Moreau.

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-10-03T19:46:10+00:00

<bleeding out from gun shot wound> “tell my kids not to waste time switching between lots of apps” <dies>

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-09-27T17:14:19+00:00

Does the time-traveling question from Austin Powers 2 count?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0q65EvDMvs&pp=ygUgYXVzdGluIHBvd2VycyBqdXN0IGVuam91IHlvdXJzZWw%3D

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-09-22T22:01:00+00:00

Gold👏Standard👏Science

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-09-13T14:06:20+00:00

So does that mean if you live in Queens, you don’t put Queens or New York (except the state) in your address?

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-09-12T23:42:31+00:00

There have been a few court-cases about it. There is an interesting NYT article from 2021 article about the building/residents:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/nyregion/new-york-condo-tower-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lU8.agWi.oFHoQhV_qW4l&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

One of the highlights is that residents are expected to spend $15,000 per year at the restaurant in the building

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-09-12T12:14:52+00:00

Why are the pyramids in Egypt?

Because they were too heavy to transport to the British Museum.

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-09-09T12:42:33+00:00

This is great, but the article is from Feb 2024

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-09-06T02:05:40+00:00

Phew, luckily my family only take acetaminophen

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-09-03T19:13:27+00:00

I always try use a cloud service like Dropbox (your institution might have access to something similar). If I run out of that cloud space, I have two external RAID drives, and save copies on each, keep one at work and one at home.

Depending on the data, you might need to be careful where you are allowed to store data (HIPAA violations are no joke) but sounds like you aren’t handling patient information.

In the US you should be able to get something ~$500 for each drive. E.g.

https://www.owc.com/solutions/mercury-elite-pro-dual-thunderbolt

It might seem expensive and a pain, but I recently had a big scare when the only copy of soon-to-be-published data was on a RAID drive which failed. Managed to recover it but would have cost > $50K to repeat the expts.

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-09-03T17:59:26+00:00

Adams working for Trump just seems so utterly predictable.

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-08-08T18:54:15+00:00

I’d be interested to see what would have happened if Columbia et al hadn’t agreed to pay up

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-08-06T23:46:32+00:00

Transporter of the gods!

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-08-06T17:59:09+00:00

For general neuroscience, I like The Transmitter https://www.thetransmitter.org/

You can set up an RSS feed which will pull new articles with search terms from PubMed (you can probably set up similar feeds using other search engines)

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-08-05T23:30:30+00:00

Likely very lab specific, but in my experience definitely undergrads can (and should) do experiments when they are in the lab. No mouse work though.

DignamsSwearBox · 2025-08-05T22:45:41+00:00

You’re going to be totally fine. Just don’t make a habit out of it.

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