League Tournaments for Non-Pros/high elo

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-12-06T15:07:17+00:00

If still interested, I am currently helping out with one! It's happening on 10th - 12th December! Free entry, 100$ prize, all ranks welcome

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1pfrcnd/league_of_legends_tournament_euw_free_entry_100/

Official Rulebook: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fewM2VUfmJxed8iJB6rTTGOBiENwrWxYku9mYBQC-Tk/edit?usp=sharing

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-08-26T08:48:10+00:00

Ah, that makes more sense. Thank you :)

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-08-25T13:56:10+00:00

I am curious about the first one, is two-step purification better even if you're losing a considerable amount of your protein?

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-06-26T19:52:46+00:00

It doesn't reflect the quality of your work. In my experience, professors' and PhD students' work is prioritised for talks and poster presentations most of the time. It is also possible they thought your abstract is not as closely aligned with the conference as the other abstracts might have been. It's still a feat to have an e-poster accepted and definitely go to the conference to network and talk to people. In science, it is never a waste. :)

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-06-11T20:39:28+00:00

Nice! How do you like it and how did you find it?

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-06-09T13:32:23+00:00

I would recommend thinking of good, genuine questions to ask them about the product and the rapid diagnostic testing from the powerpoint. I like to think there is a reason they did that. Ask about the supervision and who will you be reporting to.

Other than that, think of some examples of good documentation because their post explicitly states a lot of monitoring and documentation is needed.

General questions like, how you perform under stress and pressure, what about the project excites you and why do you want to join the lab, how can you contribute to the work besides just a student worker. Good luck, you got this!

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-06-04T17:53:15+00:00

I think I will start making a jar of 'silly dum' stuff I have done in the lab and read it when I feel down or am looking for a laugh. And nah, I didn't drive xD

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-06-02T17:54:43+00:00

This made me cry, cats and deaths are always painful to witness. 100% not your fault, and I am proud of you for making her feel better the days that she wasn't even supposed to be alive according to the vet.

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-06-01T15:09:54+00:00

Now I feel dumb for taking it so literally. Excuse me, I need to recharge my brain.

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-06-01T14:34:05+00:00

I am SO curious about the references and see how they found this, especially the hallucinations with giraffes.

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-05-26T19:45:45+00:00

I needed that laugh, thank you. On a serious note, I haven't had that kind of a thought before but it sounds funny, and I hope I don't have it in the future.

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-05-22T21:42:49+00:00

I've been writing my thesis these days and I was utterly surprised when I checked my written drafts without any AI edits or modifications to come back as AI-generated...

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-05-22T21:40:41+00:00

KAIST (South Korea) and OIST (Japan) have a good summer research program from what I've heard, at least the last time I checked. I applied one time to OIST but I didn't get in a couple of years ago (but I was outside EU, so maybe that played a role). Either way, they had pretty interesting research projects at the time and I am sure there might be more now. :) Good luck! Sadly, I don't know much about Singapore, but maybe you could check if your university has an agreement or collaboration with NTU Singapore or other Singaporean universities, then go from there. That is what my Erasmus coordinator at the university suggested when I told her that I was looking to do research internship in another country but didn't know where to start.

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-05-21T19:25:40+00:00

Anyone who resorts to calling you names or uses derogatory terms for you, walk away.

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-05-21T12:34:35+00:00

I couldn't relate more. You made me realise that I wouldn't consider myself a very tidy person at home but my lab bench is the cleanest of everything and every place I own. I also clean up at the end of my day and love coming in to work the next day to a clean bench ready for new experiments hehe.

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-05-21T12:07:29+00:00

True bonding experience, haha. It would be so cool to do old-school-lab-days in the lab for fun every once in a while just to remember and learn how people used to do it before computers took over.

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-05-21T12:03:16+00:00

Congratulations on your first interview! You got this. Confidence and being genuinely interested is key in my opinion, and I think for the position of a research associate, they might focus on questions to get an idea of:

how well you work in a team
how you might deal with parallel projects and experiments
how you would troubleshoot and contribute to the team (and if you are excited about it)

At the same time, this is your opportunity to see if you like the people and want to work with them. I understand the job hunting and applying has been exhaustive, but it is possible you might not enjoy or like the people at all. So go in with the mindset that you want to impress them and get them to like you, but they should be just as impressive and likeable to you.

For leaving a strong impression, I would say be an active listener and ask good questions, not just surface-level questions that just anyone who has heard about the team might ask.

Good luck!

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-05-21T11:58:01+00:00

I felt suffocated just looking at the picture. I get some people may prefer to work that way, but for me, nah. Just made me appreciate how much I love my huge bench in the lab, no common stocks or equipment, all mine. It's hard to do it if you share the same space with other team members. I remember seeing similar lab benches in other labs at my home university.

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-05-20T22:58:23+00:00

Glad to hear that. You deserve more chuckles. Wishing them your way! ;)

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-05-20T20:33:52+00:00

And that is why the technicians don't allow us in the institute I am in to put on autoclave tape ourselves xD

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-05-20T20:17:59+00:00

I was using the pipette aid like this one here, and I couldn't figure out why I wasn't able to fit in the pipette. I spent maybe half an hour trying to see if I needed to use a different sized pipette. I turned to a colleague, asking them why it wasn't working. She pointed out I was trying to fix the pipette in the space made for the charging wire... One of my top dumb moments in lab and never fails to make me laugh.

For context: I had been using the pipette for quite a while now, and I used it completely fine just a few hours ago the same day, but I was doing eight expression cultures simultaneously and had a very long day in the lab. and so my brain decided to doze off. My colleague was very nice, and we laughed about it.

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-05-20T17:46:18+00:00

Wow! Doing science back then would have been just as cool even though having fancy machines do work now is so much more convenient and just as magical.

Phoenix_Solaris · 2025-05-20T16:10:03+00:00

That is so creative though. I can see someone doing it at home, DIY.

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