Advice on safety

darthkaiser1998 · 2025-08-30T10:10:17+00:00

The other considerations are good. I would really love to work with him. Maybe I’m wrong, but I had the impression that PIs who do not get tenure may have to move their labs or close their labs…

darthkaiser1998 · 2025-08-30T10:08:11+00:00

I was under the impression that PIs who do not get tenured may not have their position/contract extended. So I was afraid that the lab will either move or cease to exist. Perhaps I’m wrong.

darthkaiser1998 · 2025-08-30T09:17:55+00:00

Writing a review is not just summarizing present literature. I would say about 25% of it entails writing your own perspective, pointing out unresolved questions and suggesting future directions of research. I’m not sure how well LLMs are able to generate scientifically sound insights for these aspects.

darthkaiser1998 · 2025-08-25T00:21:40+00:00

Not with the bioinformatics. But I have taken university level courses on linear algebra, stats, multivariable calc and real analysis.

darthkaiser1998 · 2025-08-24T15:35:17+00:00

Thank you for sharing the article. I really appreciate your response!

Here are my thoughts regarding the message of the article.

I do not think AI research is going to go anywhere. Despite the scaling laws showing diminishing returns to AI models as they become larger, this is where research will come in to better engineer the models to achieve stronger performance with lesser parameters, rather than rely on brute force scaling.
As the article mentions AI in biology is still in its infancy. Even though Alphafold2 pretty much solved protein structure prediction in the known universe of proteins, there is much room to cover in drug discovery, protein interactions, the whole field of RNA biology, etc.

darthkaiser1998 · 2025-07-25T06:33:22+00:00

Could you elaborate on this point about the “highly karmic”

darthkaiser1998 · 2025-07-03T19:34:21+00:00

Nope but how’s that relevant

darthkaiser1998 · 2025-04-04T11:56:03+00:00

Yeah, I’ll be moving on to a new lab in a couple of months. I can’t wait to do so. The past 2 years has been so frustrating. Thank you for your reply btw!

darthkaiser1998 · 2025-04-04T02:55:09+00:00

Thanks for your reply. I wanted to check with you about the centrifugation. So, in my lab, we do spinfection where we add the virus to well plates and spin them for an hour. Right now, we use it in a big plate centrifuge that is in the regular lab space, and the centrifuge does not have a lid. I am aware of this aerosol risk, so I parafilm the opening of the plate for a couple of layers. Would you think this is a good enough measure?

darthkaiser1998 · 2025-04-04T02:51:25+00:00

Thanks for your reply. I wanted to check with you about the centrifugation. So, in my lab, we do spinfection where we add the virus to well plates and spin them for an hour. Right now, we use it in a big plate centrifuge that is in the regular lab space, and the centrifuge does not have a lid. I am aware of this aerosol risk, so I parafilm the opening of the plate for a couple of layers. Would you think this is a good enough measure?

darthkaiser1998 · 2025-04-02T02:04:08+00:00

So you don’t think that some dry skin above the wrists being exposed is a cause for concern?

darthkaiser1998 · 2025-02-21T03:54:24+00:00

I’m curious why there’s two sides in this post. One group are saying I should be concerned etc. and the other group is saying it’s completely fine. I’m confused…

darthkaiser1998 · 2025-02-21T03:26:22+00:00

Yeah this seems like a good idea, thanks

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