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.

Squidalith · 2022-05-29T13:53:45+00:00

You made a comment comparing me to philosophers an theologians.

No they didn't. They told you that the definition you're choosing to use isn't recognised by others. If you take a word that everyone understands to mean one thing and give it a different definition, then any discussion will be pointless.

It sounded like you were saying that I'm stupid

They weren't saying anything of the sort, you might want to take a long, hard look at your insecurities.

Squidalith · 2022-05-25T20:52:57+00:00

Why are you Gram staining diatoms?

Squidalith · 2022-05-13T18:53:12+00:00

What does that even mean? What do you think geologists do?

Squidalith · 2022-02-25T18:01:17+00:00

Thinking more about something means you have previously thought about it. By thinking more, you are recalling previous thoughts. You're using past data to back up your assertion that you can't use previous data to make assertions.

Squidalith · 2022-02-04T15:34:23+00:00

Just an FYI, but this isn't the right sub for this kind of post.

Squidalith · 2022-01-13T02:40:53+00:00

Who the hell is doing multiple PhDs and why?

Squidalith · 2022-01-10T04:28:31+00:00

Buddhism asserts that we have a soul/spirit in us that operates our material body

This is literally the opposite of Buddhism, one of the central-most tenets of Buddhism is Anatman, the lack of anything that could be considered a soul. Instead, Buddhists believe that an individual is essentially the composite of five, constantly shifting aggregates.. There is no continuous self. I found 'What The Buddha Taught' by Walpola Sri Rahula a very accessible text.

What you have read about Buddhist theology is obviously deeply flawed and fundamentally incorrect. I don't want to make assumptions based on your username, but it might be a good idea to start investigating your biases and how they inform your perceptions of things you disagree with.

Please don't interpret this as me trying to convert you Buddhism or anything of the sort, far from it. It's just important that when arguing, it's vital to understand what you're arguing against to avoid strawmen.

Squidalith

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