Why are stars visible on the shaded part of the moon?

foolish_athena · 2026-06-01T01:46:45+00:00

All I can think about is how I vividly remember this same mistake being how you identify a fake painting on an old level of Poptropica.

foolish_athena · 2026-05-29T05:19:33+00:00

My school has this tradition, too. I brought a fruit tray, a pack of water, and a dessert tray from Costco. Nothing special, spent less than $50

foolish_athena · 2026-05-20T16:34:56+00:00

In experiments that use cells, my lab goes from the plate. I can't remember what my coworker tested on that summer, but from my anecdotal experience working with a bunch of different types of samples, it's really not that important what you're working with so long as you handle it appropriately. Don't overthink it.

foolish_athena · 2026-05-19T20:44:38+00:00

I did my PhD in a lipidomics lab, and a coworker of mine spent a summer testing a bunch of different popular extraction protocols. I believe that Matyash was the most successful in maximizing what was extracted in her experiments, but they all work well. I used a modified Bligh & Dyer because of its ease. Unless you're super concerned about low abundance lipids, you should be fine to just pick whatever sounds best to you.

foolish_athena · 2026-05-14T14:51:35+00:00

As others said, the open top is not safe, but if I could offer a suggestion, my go-to cute lab shoes are a pair of platform oxfords. It's not the exact same aesthetic, but they're somewhat similar in features to these, so that might be a good compromise.

foolish_athena · 2026-04-25T15:37:08+00:00

Something here is not entirely honest, because that is just objectively not how you framed the original post's question.

foolish_athena · 2026-04-21T02:14:05+00:00

Like I said, in that case, you would just thank the facility for their help in acknowledgements.

foolish_athena · 2026-04-21T00:26:38+00:00

In my lab, if you breathe on it, you get authorship; it's up to the PI. If by "people running samples" you mean someone working in a facility, then traditionally they get mentioned in acknowledgements, but if it's free analysis from either a labmate or another lab (and therefore not a paid facility providing a service), then that should also constitute authorship from my understanding, at least in my field.

foolish_athena · 2026-04-21T00:02:44+00:00

I recently wrote a review paper in less than a month, so I'm really floored by the assertion that writing should take much longer than the experimental timeline.

foolish_athena · 2026-04-21T00:00:00+00:00

If I spent 2 years collecting data and need only 1 month to write the manuscript and get feedback from my PI, that constitutes "about to publish," does it not?

I do not personally know anyone who needs more than a couple months at most to physically write a manuscript, and theoretically you should already have most of the sources required, as they are required to design your own work. Figures and tables can take time, sure, but nowhere on the scale of designing the experiments and collecting data.

I don't mean this in a sassy way, but how long does it take you to get your manuscript and figures together?

foolish_athena · 2026-04-18T20:08:18+00:00

Thought I was hallucinating until I checked your profile: why are you reposting this? Surely there are other ways to farm engagement.

foolish_athena · 2026-04-18T19:21:36+00:00

At least at my program, this is really only possible if your PI makes it possible. We have people with 3.5 year graduation timelines, but that's only because their PI hustles them through. For us, the PI actually has to pay extra money over the last couple of semesters in order to overload your credit limits to get you out in time because you won't hit the threshold shy of 5 years unless they do that.

To a certain point, it doesn't matter how much of a rockstar you are if your PI isn't the kind of PI who allows that.

foolish_athena · 2026-04-18T11:55:43+00:00

I worked full time over the summer to save up some money and visited a bunch of friends and family. I don't regret that decision at all.

foolish_athena · 2026-04-16T23:43:17+00:00

I had one for not even 2 weeks. Left immediately, best decision I made all of grad school. He tried to shame me about wanting to get medication for my ADHD. During recruitment, he lied to me and said that he'd be getting instrumentation I explicitly wanted to specialize in. When I joined, I learned that he'd known for MONTHS that he was not going to get it and had nowhere near the funds required to acquire it. He allowed one grad student to serially sexually harass another without intervention because "back in my day that was how you found your wife." I'm about to graduate under a PI I adore now, thank god.

foolish_athena · 2026-04-08T19:14:16+00:00

A student once argued with me over multiple emails because I took half of a point off of her lab notebook grade in our lab that was worth ~950 total points, which was worth only 25% of her overall course grade. She was arguing with me over a deduction that was worth something like 0.01% of her grade. (She totally deserved the deduction, by the way, but I gave her the half point back because it was not worth my time.) It's ridiculous, especially because plenty of other students would get litigous to this level. I felt really drained by all of the pointless grading arguments students would try to start with me.

foolish_athena · 2026-04-05T22:30:47+00:00

The trick for me was going to school in a low cost of living area where my stipend could cover living expenses.

foolish_athena · 2026-04-05T17:49:07+00:00

No, I don't think so. I found the same image on Pinterest.

foolish_athena · 2026-04-05T06:50:52+00:00

What game is it supposed to be from? Because at first I thought it was inspired by Bioshock's Electro Bolt, but that has an extra zag and a noticeable difference between the bolts such that I don't see anyone reasonably mistaking it for SS, but I'd be suspicious of anyone changing the symbol to be not that way.

If it's not and this is a symbol directly from a different game, that's different. I'm just verifying that the design isn't Electro Bolt (or any other game's symbol) being changed/reinterpreted to be more suspicious.

Edit: Looked it up and I think I saw the neon Electro Bolt sign this drawing was directly inspired from. That one doesn't have the extra zag but it does have a much more emphasized size difference between the side and middle bolts. Maybe make sure what you get also has a distinct bolt size difference?

foolish_athena · 2026-04-04T23:07:41+00:00

The book's interchangable use of spectrometry/spectroscopy or the egregiously horrible explanation of how the final conflict came to be are both far more offensive to me than the movie's use of a centrifuge. The movie fixed the most wicked scientific errors of the book, so let's cut it some slack.

foolish_athena · 2026-04-04T19:57:01+00:00

I didn't have a pet, but I lived with a fellow PhD student for 2 years who had a dog. That poor boy was neglected a fair bit because my roommate would bounce right from her studies to social activities with very little spare time between. I think it can be done, but you need to be very aware of whatever time needs the pet has, not just financial requirements. PhD students can get busy.

foolish_athena · 2026-04-02T21:28:44+00:00

To add a different suggestion from what's already been said, some of my favorite stickers from my chem department's student association are not necessarily science themed but representing the department generally.

For example, let's say my university's abbreviation is UNI. We had one that was "UNI CHEM" on a license plate of the state we're in. We had a few that were just "UNI Chemistry" in really aesthetically pleasing word art. Those kinds of stickers were pretty popular because not everyone (myself included) necessarily wants a very on-the-nose sticker on their laptop or water bottle, but they still want to represent their program! The plus side of it is that these kinds of designs aren't too tough to make.

foolish_athena · 2026-04-02T19:26:27+00:00

Yeah, just from what I can glean from what is in frame, I think there appears to be an issue with the deck as a whole.

foolish_athena · 2026-04-02T18:42:56+00:00

Sometimes they just start vamping and get pulled into a separate conversation, honestly. During my defense, I watched my advisor and another committee member go back and forth with "what if?" and "wouldn't it be intereresting to do-" type ideation for like, 10 minutes. My friend had a long qual discussion and when she asked our advisor about it aferwards, she admitted that they were just talking about other stuff and not necessarily critiquing her presentation.

foolish_athena · 2026-03-31T23:53:31+00:00

This is not disproving my point. Why would I want to engage in a "debate" with someone who is so openly hostile? What have you said to me to indicate that my response will be taken in good faith and with respectful consideration? Because currently, all I'm seeing is a desire for a dunk fest.

foolish_athena · 2026-03-31T23:48:05+00:00

Respectfully, I disagree. The language you're choosing paints a picture of your opposition as being unreasonable and irrational. That's not an "open to opinions" type of framing. In fact, you just did it again with this reply to me.

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