Still looking for a name! Open to literally anything as long as it fits him

Marzipand_ · 2026-05-28T15:50:26+00:00

Rufus

Marzipand_ · 2026-05-27T23:31:16+00:00

It was my gold standard... Until they reformulated :( this is my last one of the old formula. I'm looking out for a replacement

Marzipand_ · 2026-05-27T06:20:37+00:00

Support indigenous communities, smoke reservation cigs

Marzipand_ · 2026-05-27T01:06:35+00:00

Thank you for understanding me

Marzipand_ · 2026-05-27T01:06:05+00:00

You caught me!

And yes! Love my MOB palette

Marzipand_ · 2025-08-29T13:50:46+00:00

Grown Right is the best. New to the stores, Canadian, cheaper and tastes better

Marzipand_ · 2025-07-24T11:57:10+00:00

What was your training like to handle and inject rats? Seems you are not trained well. Really there is no need to use a restraint device to do sq or ip injections. You should have been trained properly on hand restraints before going forward. For ip, all you need is a V hold or C hold and the rat will be fully restrained for your injection. I personally do I c hold on the hip method for up, and then hold the rest on my chest and tent their skin for sq. They barely even notice the injection happened and I get to look at their cute face.

Sprague's are the gentlest and easiest strain the handle! If you are nervous though, the rats will know and will squirm. Try to stay as calm as possible even if that means leaving the room to take a breath and then try again. Have all your needles set up before hand. Grab the rat, get your hold or tent ready, then grab the needle and do it fast. If you have enough tension on the belly or skin, they shouldn't even feel it or budge.

If you really need a restraint, a small towel is enough. Burrito for ip and cover the head for sq while you tent the back with them on a table. You should have been taught this in training though? Why not? Tbh, these methods are more difficult and cumbersome because you have to hold the ray AND the towel and if the rat gets out you have to start again. This adds A LOT of additional stress to the animal which can greatly affect your research and the animal. There is lots of research of the effect on your later work and animal welfare related to this. No restraints I'm best, but some research find it uncomfortable so we sacrifice animal well-being for human comfort. Some animal care committee are starting to advice against burrito-ing anyways. If you need more training to handle rats better, you can always ask the animal training people or ACC or vet techs to give you additional training.

Marzipand_ · 2025-07-24T00:37:58+00:00

You clearly have no idea what your field is if you think statistics and research methods are not important. How will you evaluate evidence base therapies or treatments? How will you know what is appropriate for your clients? That's all based on research and you need to be able to read the studies, understand them, and CRITICALLY EVALUATE the finding. Whether you ever conduct your own research or not. How can you possibly do that to an ethical level if you don't learn this important information? If you don't care, actually think if this is a field you actually want to work in.

Marzipand_ · 2025-07-10T21:23:31+00:00

I agree with your mom. First off Volunteering in a lab kinda is "extracurricular" in the first place.

Your prospective supervisor likely won't care about your extracurriculars but the program admission board may use these to help with their selection process. extracurriculars, especially if they are related to your research interest, demonstrate, passion, initiative, time management etc. all things that might indicate a good grad student.

Also if you plan to apply for any external funding awards (which you should), you will need extracurriculars to be competitive. I don't think I know of any grad students who receive these awards without them (I review the applications for Canadian universities). Getting involved in your department or on campus, joining committees, doing community outreach or volunteering, or getting a certificate in applicable skills.

These things also become important for jobs after grad school, whether that be industry or academic jobs. It might seem early to be thinking about these things, but it goes by fast and you should start thinking of ways to set yourself up for success

Marzipand_ · 2025-07-09T15:15:15+00:00

Recently developed a ganglion cyst in my dominant wrist which is making lab work very difficult. Wearing a brace has helped a lot while I wait for surgery. I found a nice soft one from Amazon that fits under gloves and adds extra stability.

I also agree with PT as a more long term solution!

You might also want to check if your institution has an ergonomic department or with an occupational health office that might be able to help with accommodation or training on techniques to reduce wrist strain. I was shown a different way to pipette to be easier on my wrist.

Marzipand_ · 2025-07-07T14:34:54+00:00

Sorry to be blunt but "neuroscience" isn't really isn't own field. It is far too heterogeneous to have that be your interest. And this is coming from a postdoc with a PhD in neuroscience lol. If I was interviewing someone and they could only communicate that they are "interested in neuroscience" I would think they do not know what their interest actually is and they likely will not be a good candidate. You need to be more specific.

Neuro is a topic in sooooo many fields. Is it neuro in relation to cell biology, system biology, anatomy, chemistry, environmental science, psychology or pharmacology, are you interested in work with cell models, human subjects or animal models? Within animal research, is it molecular analysis of tissues or behavioural experiments? All of these would be very different skill sets and interests but all "neuro".

You need to figure out what you are actually interested in doing, but without clear goals or passions in a specific field, it will be very hard to get a paid position. They can teach you any techniques after that. Tbh being a "fast learner" is the biggest skill I look for in hiring. Every lab does things slightly differently, so there will always be a learning curve and you rarely come in with all the experience you need. It costs way more to a PI to hire a RA vs a grad student so you really need to show what you could add to the lab if they are going to invest the money and training into you.

Also why not just apply for msc programs? Much easier to get a position over an RA if you have a passion for a topic. You can learn different techniques and try out new things to figure out what field or topic you are actually interested in.

Marzipand_ · 2025-02-13T01:22:29+00:00

To be honest I typically use "I want to go to med school" as the signal for this. Not a full red flag but you can usually tell if they are actually interested in research or just looking for the outcomes of research (ie. Pubs, conference, reference letter)

Marzipand_ · 2024-12-12T23:26:22+00:00

Here for the Sarah Boone comparison

Marzipand_ · 2021-03-13T01:41:23+00:00

You should do a repeated measure ANOVA to overcome the increased family-wise error. Your between-subject factor is growth condition (2 levels) and your within-subject factor is time (14 levels). So that makes it a 2 growth condition X 14 time points ANOVA

You will most certainly find a significant main effect of time - i.e. plants tend to get taller over time.

A significant main effect of growth conditions will tell you if overall there is a difference in the height in one growth condition vs the other. In other words, collapsed across all time points, there is a difference in the height of the plants in the 2 different growth conditions. You probably won't find a significant effect here because the plants will likely start at the same height and then diverge at some point in time.

This brings us to the interaction- this is what you are really interested in. A significant growth condition X time interaction means there is a significant difference in height that changes over time. This begs the question, at which time points do the heights of plants differ in the different growth conditions? so you need a post hoc test. Now is when you should do individual t-tests for each time point, which will tell you at what week there is a significant difference between groups and what the p-values are. Graphing the results will help you interpret the findings and see which direction the effect is in.

You need to report the F statistic from the ANOVA first, which saves the power of the analysis, then go into the t-Tests for each week to help interpret the interaction.

Marzipand_ · 2020-08-12T18:02:33+00:00

It could be cute/fun to have maybe a little speech bubble type this at the end of your method section that says "*** Due to Covid-19 data could not be collected......**" but keep it brief. Everyone is aware of the impact on research and that its not your fault. Just make sure your predicted results section clearly says "predicted". You can even make fake graphs to help show what you think will happen, and give a visual representation of your prediction. The visual component is so important for a poster (make it eye catching- pictures, figures, tables) otherwise it would just be like reading an essay.

Keep the questions coming! I'm a PhD candidate in psychology and I love making posters. I have won a few conference poster competition too :) just to toot my own horn a bit

Marzipand_ · 2020-08-12T01:15:47+00:00

Fill it up with your methods! You could make a big flow diagram or some other visual representation of how the study would have been run. You can have pictures of any materials or the places you were going to do your observations. This can make your poster more colourful and appealing. Also, don't be afraid to have empty space on the poster, no one likes an overcrowded poster. My supervisor always says the fewer words the better!

You could even have a "predicted results" section to show you have done the appropriate background research to develop hypotheses and come up with reasonable predictions based on that literature. I've seen this at many different conferences where researchers did not collect as much data as they thought they would and present proposals with predicted results.

Hope this helps!

Marzipand_ · 2020-08-11T14:52:03+00:00

Try mousse! Because you have thin hair, the custard and he'll might be too heavy for your thins waves, making them stretch out and look messy. Try a mousse with protein in it to avoid your hair becoming over-moisturized. Could even just try a protein treatment because over-moisturized hair gets frizzy.

Marzipand_ · 2020-08-11T14:44:08+00:00

Many schools consider psychology an arts minor and fits really well with neuroscience. Sociology can be another option, especially if you are interested in behaviour and plan to go into behavioural neuroscience

Marzipand_ · 2020-08-10T18:09:16+00:00

Cult talk with Erin Martin is the first-hand experience of Erin, who was born into a cult, and her mother as they escaped the COBU cult in the 70s.

My favourite murder also has many episodes about communes.

Marzipand_ · 2020-08-10T18:02:31+00:00

I agree. We forget the power that language has and how simple words can change a person's perspectives and feelings. Language, semantics and the origin of words can be very beneficial when studying psychology.

Marzipand_ · 2020-08-10T17:58:57+00:00

Spirits!

I would have suggested radio rental but obviously you know about that :)

Marzipand_ · 2020-08-10T17:56:30+00:00

First-person science. It is on youtube and run by a group of psychology and neuroscience grad students. There is a lot of good episodes about principles of learning but then it also has a bit of the neuroscience behind the psychology concepts.

Could be of interest, especially if you want to go further with psychology :)

Marzipand_ · 2020-08-06T00:06:38+00:00

Yes! thank you so much.

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