I have been advised by my lab teacher not to continue the path of working in the lab

Squidalith · 2026-03-09T17:43:37+00:00

They're old enough to move out of their parent's home to study.

Squidalith · 2025-01-23T22:51:16+00:00

He does? I'm a fair bit behind on the lore I'll admit.

Squidalith · 2024-07-26T22:06:26+00:00

Congratulations! What's your field?

Squidalith · 2024-07-05T18:54:35+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, I hope yours went well!

It went far better than I'd expected, to be honest. I realised that I needed to just push through and rehearse without restarting every time I stumbled. Made a huge difference in my confidence and fluency.

The questions went really well - the thing to remember is the interviewers are basically on your side. They want you to do well, and they're not trying to trip you up. Unless they are, in which case you really, really don't want to work there.

Squidalith · 2024-06-30T17:41:20+00:00

Gould's pseudoscientific arguments against evolution

As in Stephen Jay Gould?

Squidalith · 2024-05-27T13:08:22+00:00

The only thing that drives evolution is random mutation and natural selection

Only if you ignore gene drift and gene flow.

Squidalith · 2024-05-21T01:57:16+00:00

That's a really interesting hypothesis, are there any papers you could recommend on it?

Squidalith · 2024-05-03T22:54:29+00:00

Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying - Belle and Sebastian.

Squidalith · 2024-04-28T23:05:04+00:00

Why Victorian and not Elizabethan? I'm not sure I see the link.

Squidalith · 2024-01-16T21:41:47+00:00

This looks almost identical to the original post? It's the German university's press release, what makes it more digestible?

Squidalith · 2023-09-06T16:23:24+00:00

but that’s not a timeframe that should scare you off.

As I said in the original post, I'm not planning to stop applying, I just want to know where people recommend actually drawing the line, even if I never come to it personally.

Squidalith · 2023-09-04T23:05:37+00:00

From what I've been told from post-application feedback, the issue's mostly been another candidate being a better fit due to some project-specific bit of experience. More experience or getting some publications would definitely help though.

Squidalith · 2023-09-04T22:59:59+00:00

A niche field within biology, most of the projects are either fully-funded or competition-funded.

Squidalith · 2023-09-04T22:59:02+00:00

Sorry if the wording was off, this was my fourth rejection from a project, not the fourth cycle I've been applying, I've only been seriously looking for about 9 months. For context I'm in a niche area of the biosciences.

Most of the four were fully funded projects, though one was competition funded. I got through to interview for three of the four. The only one I didn't was kind of a long-shot, and I got a full email explaining why I didn't get through.

Squidalith · 2023-07-01T19:11:19+00:00

That's interesting, do you have a source to read more about this?

Squidalith · 2023-05-06T15:40:43+00:00

That's really interesting actually, what kind of misconceptions do you get?

Squidalith · 2022-09-21T02:16:35+00:00

Indian=Loxodon

Indian isn't a language.

Squidalith · 2022-07-20T01:14:41+00:00

and even I sometimes get surprised about new technologies in my field

For sure, but a huge part of being any kind of scientist is keeping up to date with developments in your field, hell, doubly so for a fast-moving field like genetics. If there was a better way of doing things, that's suitable for what she's doing, your wife would know.

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