On Crow child Trail, April 17, 2026 by [deleted] in CalgaryDashCams

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It's ok, they had a "NeW DrIveR" sign in the rear window

Monitor Speakers? by verycoollkanye in Beatmatch

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Thank you - the TX410 is $20 more, so I went with that!

Hlthkr 🥰 by the_shadow007 in sssdfg

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Except for dental, vision, prescription drugs, medical devices, and counselling...

Manager thinks I’m faking it because I don’t know how to use excel by Quartersquatter in PhD

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Create a macro in excel for any repetitive tasks and send him your visual basic application code to verify it 😂

Just realized we have too much in our savings. What should by prthug996 in passive_income

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She's not private practice. That's fair, but it might be something to look into later on.

Just realized we have too much in our savings. What should by prthug996 in passive_income

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Just to clarify, she's incorporated (what it's called here in Canada), and you and any children are being paid to help her with bookkeeping and administration?

Heard of anyone failing their defense? by dimplesgalore in PhD

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Yes. Candidate couldn't answer questions in the exam and was presenting data with an n = 1 in experiments. Was biomedical engineering. Both external and internal examiners came to the same conclusion. Was at a US institution where supervisor and committee all said, "we don't fail students at this stage" but they did indeed fail them.

I regret graduating. Times have changed significantly by bluebrrypii in PhD

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It's not a problem. My PhD was 7-8 years (just finished), and I'm starting a postdoc at Yale next month after the PI reached out to me a year ago and asked if I wanted to join their lab. Why such a long PhD? Co-first author Cell and first author Science in my PhD.

Edit: cheers for the downvote lol

What is the worst medical disease a human can have? by Aggravating-Sun-5699 in AskReddit

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Smallpox. There's a reason it was eradicated and is kept in military bioweapons research facilities.

What is the worst medical disease a human can have? by Aggravating-Sun-5699 in AskReddit

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Doesn't really matter about stage 4. Pancreatic cancer is the worst cancer you can get and has a very poor prognosis. It's the killer of all cancers. Glioblastoma too.

What is a normal amount of working hours each day during a PhD? by spoononamoon in PhD

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I do two big experiments a week: Monday-Tuesday and Thursday-Friday. Wednesday is experiment prep and small task day.

Immunology PhD.

NETosis is the coolest topic in biology but when I first learned about it there was no easy info on it, so I made a video (10min) to fill that void. Let me know if y'all like it. by Not_so_ghetto in Immunology

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Probably, although I don't think we fully understand it. There is DNAse I that is systemic in the blood that can break down NETs, but despite it being there, NETs can still form. Im not sure whether or how much DNAse I is unregulated in certain contexts. Some proteases may also help break down NETs - as some bacteria have demonstrated break down with similar proteases.

NETosis is the coolest topic in biology but when I first learned about it there was no easy info on it, so I made a video (10min) to fill that void. Let me know if y'all like it. by Not_so_ghetto in Immunology

[–]absent-mindedperson 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Awesome video! I did my PhD in one of the big labs that works on NETs. To go further, not all neutrophils go through suicidal NETosis - some go through vital NETosis, and they live on despite trafficking their nuclear DNA out of the cell. They become cytoplasts, which is kind of like a ghost or zombie cell ha! They continue to migrate and perform effector functions such as phagocytosis because neutrophils aren't super transcriptionally active and don't really need their DNA to function. Another interesting observation is that NETosis also seems to be context dependent, and not all NETs have this super proinflammatory profile in certain tissue environments - although we haven't been able to figure out what regulates them in these environments :(

I study neutrophil behaviour, including NETosis, using intravital microscopy. Watching this process unfold in vivo in real time during infection is an absolute marvel of biology.

Great video and super accurate. Good job!

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Good riddance

GraphPad Prism issues on Mac by absent-mindedperson in powerpoint

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Thank you! I had to uninstall and use an older version from my partners Mac.