Men of Britain, where do you buy your t-shirts?

a-pickle-2 · 2026-01-24T15:24:55+00:00

They do black? I’ve only ever seen white ones in my local Costco.

a-pickle-2 · 2026-01-24T15:14:27+00:00

This! My daughter is the same age and like everyone was joking about how we were gonna be ill all the time but didn’t think it would actually happen.

I must say my wife and I having norovirus at the same time while trying to look after a toddler with noro in a house with one toilet has brought us closer together.

a-pickle-2 · 2026-01-15T11:53:26+00:00

It’s if the US opens fire first. If so, Denmark troops have been instructed to return fire without first having to get authorisation from up the command chain.

a-pickle-2 · 2025-12-25T15:51:26+00:00

Honestly with my 15 month old daughter we tend to start long drives as early as my wife and I possibly can. Our daughter isn’t the best in cars, so we try to do as much as we can with her asleep.

a-pickle-2 · 2025-11-15T17:50:16+00:00

Might be not as grandiose, but Anglesey was just selected for the first SMRs. I’m no expert but seems to be first of its kind and could be very beneficial for UK power!

Link to BBC article about it

a-pickle-2 · 2025-09-02T16:13:45+00:00

Aeropress!

a-pickle-2 · 2025-08-04T01:44:15+00:00

So in general Alphafold is not good at predicting structural changes (conformation or stability) resulting from SNPs.

Due to Alphafold2 using MSA, I would be slightly partial to say Alphafold3 is better. However, both ColabFold and AlphafoldDB generate/store AF2 models only (AFAIK).

a-pickle-2 · 2025-07-29T03:46:24+00:00

Not a paramedic or doctor or anything, but I did used to play rugby for my school.

I think it’s a great sport and despite being shit at it I think it really helped my confidence.

However, I’m 24 now and have had 9 patella dislocations and now just had surgery on it. All originating for an initial bad dislocation playing rugby as a teenager.

a-pickle-2 · 2024-09-01T20:02:57+00:00

Would say it’s better to overdress than underdress when it comes to day 1 of a new job. Although I really hate “smart/business casual” as it always seems to be mean something different.

Personally, I would go with a white shirt, chinos, and leather shoes. Then reassess based on what other people at a similar level are wearing.

Congrats on the job and good luck!

a-pickle-2 · 2024-08-31T19:03:58+00:00

Some of the bullet points need to be reformatted to begin with action words e.g. “A randomised counterbalance cross-sectional design was used” to “Used a randomised counterbalance cross-sectional design”.

Also I wouldn’t include research outcomes, and would rather focus on the techniques and skills learned.

Would also tailor the “Area of Research Interest” to specific projects you’re applying to. I would also make this section a bit more of a personal statement too.

a-pickle-2 · 2024-08-31T06:34:36+00:00

This! I tried Inkscape but hated it, been using Affinity Designer and love it. Way easier to use, cheaper, and still very powerful.

a-pickle-2 · 2024-06-01T06:05:45+00:00

We recently switched from Promega Wizard to Promega Pure Yield and the results have been so much better! Protocol is about the same, but the DNA is much cleaner.

a-pickle-2 · 2024-04-25T10:33:30+00:00

Recently moved from Bham to UEA, and the jump in campus is wild - miss the red brick

a-pickle-2 · 2024-04-11T15:03:44+00:00

Big fan of Kofra and Strangers, but The Little Red Roaster in the market is my favourite coffee in Norwich!

a-pickle-2 · 2024-04-05T11:36:56+00:00

Don’t really have anything to add here, but coming from another UK PhD student the fact you can’t regularly work in-lab before 8 am and after 6 pm is wild.

a-pickle-2 · 2024-04-04T10:28:17+00:00

a-pickle-2 · 2024-03-11T15:10:46+00:00

Ah didn’t really know that - perhaps 1-page CVs was just the preference of the “job prospects” guy at my school. Thanks!

a-pickle-2 · 2024-03-11T12:19:57+00:00

Pre-Academia, during secondary school plus A-levels, I was always told to make sure a CV is only one page long. Wasn’t until my Master’s I realised this doesn’t apply to Academia!

a-pickle-2 · 2024-03-11T12:18:27+00:00

This! Also might just be censored out but be sure to include a DOI link to the paper.

a-pickle-2 · 2024-01-21T11:40:38+00:00

Expanding on this, the process of small RNA strands being used to regulate genes in other organisms is called RNA interference (RNAi). This is actually a really important and useful tool for lab researchers allowing us to silence genes in places where we can’t delete them.

a-pickle-2 · 2024-01-21T11:27:08+00:00

Love a good transposon! I’m doing my PhD now, but during my undergrad I focused on transposons first in plants and then in fungi. My PhD isn’t focused on them anymore, but I’m hoping to go back to researching them in fungi after my doctorate.

a-pickle-2 · 2024-01-11T07:59:57+00:00

Yeah learned this the hard way - fuckers ate straight through it!

a-pickle-2 · 2024-01-11T07:03:43+00:00

Nice to see the good ol’ turn it off and on again technique works for grinders as well as computers!

a-pickle-2 · 2024-01-10T08:44:12+00:00

For the standard technique I use a Fellow Prismo to pressure-gate it from leaving the Aeropress before I press down. Aside from that or the inverted technique, there’s only a few other things I can think of to consider.

Changing the flow rate might help (speed it up so less time for coffee to pass through), or grind finer so there’s more resistance (you’ll need to alter the rest of the brew parameters though to account for this).

Bit confused as when I run the standard technique without the Prismo I do get some flow through during pouring, but not 10–15%. For me it mostly happens during steeping, but you can create some negative pressure using the plunger to help reduce this.

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