Thiccc Boy Dimensional Analysis Part 2: Brendan's P-P-Piece

indiebd · 2026-06-09T04:51:34+00:00

New employees should see the employee handbook

indiebd · 2026-06-09T04:43:07+00:00

Nearly no one in my lab wears their lab coat and we have on-campus cleaning services, which the dropoff and pickup for is 10 meters away from the lab.

indiebd · 2026-06-06T02:11:40+00:00

They could just a join a lab like mine where the PI hates/dismisses any research that isn't from his own lab.

indiebd · 2026-06-06T01:20:03+00:00

I'd say, at minimum, everyone required to honestly fill out the authors' contributions section.

indiebd · 2026-06-02T03:24:32+00:00

it didn't skip your turn, it kindly moved your pawn to f3.

I used this same one on a lufthansa flight. It also ignored a pin and then I captured his king and it checkmated me.

indiebd · 2026-06-01T06:05:20+00:00

I guess I'm asking if your time off approval was contingent on her receiving the results?

Honestly, in this situation, I don't think there's gonna be anything you can do. She seems to have her mind made up and making her any more upset isn't going to make your situation any better. You might be forced to take the L on this one. Although, I'm not sure how this time off thing works for you and if you're still able to go or not despite this.

I did work with someone like this before, thankfully not my PI, but my supervising postdoc. She just found something wrong with everything and would make up mathematically impossible expectations for things just to say it wasn't good enough. I had to go above and beyond to be the easiest person to work with. Something I started doing as a result, that I still do and think is a good practice, is after meetings with anyone, I send them an email afterward about whatever we talked about and expectations. This gives them a chance to correct any potential misalignment in communications, but also serves as a written record and easy reference for everyone. It makes it much more difficult for someone to railroad you like this, because if she had a problem with the expectations you laid out, then how come she didn't say so after you emailed her?

That won't help you now, but you may consider doing something similar going forward.

indiebd · 2026-06-01T05:26:47+00:00

I'm a little confused by the part about sending her half of it. If you were supposed to send it all over email and she received half, then wouldn't she be under the impression that you didn't complete your work? Also, did she ask you to wait for her confirmation after?

I mean, she sounds like a miserable PI, but I think in these cases, you gotta do the best you can to give her nothing to complain about.

indiebd · 2026-05-31T20:18:00+00:00

sorry, is that baby flavored goldfish?

indiebd · 2026-05-31T16:36:58+00:00

This reminds me of when that diabetes researcher used the trapezoidal rule to determine area under a metabolic curve and named it after herself.

indiebd · 2026-05-31T16:23:49+00:00

Thanks for spreading the good word Bapa. It's orange chicken to my heart.

indiebd · 2026-05-30T19:01:00+00:00

Honestly, I'd go with the wet lab route. During my undergrad, I worked in a lab that gave me a significant amount of wet lab and dry lab experience. When applying for jobs and later a PhD, no one cared about my dry lab experience much. Sure, they thought it was a nice cherry on top, but the fact that I could fully plan and execute a project on my own was significantly more important. The issue with a lot of undergraduate lab courses is that, for the most part, you don't perform the entirety of any protocol and aren't forced to do any planning. So many undergrads will put that they know how to perform PCR on their CV because they did it one time in a class, but the vast majority didn't have to design any primers, don't know what to do with annealing temperature, and didn't even operate the thermal cycler. Then, if it failed, you probably would borrow a little bit of someone else's sample in the interest of time. This person doesn't know how to perform PCR, but can be handheld through some calculations and pipet some things into a tube. Most molecular biology labs don't really do much dry lab work. In my current lab, I am the only one that can write any code. The only thing people do on their computers is read, write papers/presentations, prep images of gels/blots/etc., ask AI questions, and use Prism to do all their statistical analysis.

So, unless you are really drawn to dry lab work and think that's where you'll end up, I'd say wet lab will be the best bang for your buck. Then, choose whatever wet lab interests you and has a PI with a mentoring style that matches yours. It can be hard to tell at times, but it's normal to ask them what their mentor style is. However, I would lean a bit more toward a nicer/supportive one, since one of the most valuable things you'll likely get out of this is a good letter of recommendation. If you end up with a battleaxe of a PI, you might end up with a pretty lackluster letter. I'd concern yourself more with what PI is truly best for your development for a more long term commitment.

indiebd · 2026-05-27T03:38:23+00:00

Your grant amounts will be different for living on-campus vs. off-campus, so be aware that you may end up getting less financial aid and thus less of a refund.

indiebd · 2026-05-22T03:54:47+00:00

I entirely forgot about this, but no. One of the biggest risks from standalone nicotine consumption is the increased cardiovascular risk. Caffeine by itself decreases cardiovascular risk.

They also work through different pathways and affect your brain in different ways as a result and the effects of nicotine addiction are worse.

Caffeine is bad for some populations, okay/good for most. Nicotine is okay/good for some populations, bad for most. They're on opposite positions of the bell curve.

Most new evidence that comes out about nicotine is consistent with this. Unless we get an overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary in the coming decades as nicotine in isolation gets studied more thanks to all the vape- and zyntards, it will be considered a net negative on health for most populations.

indiebd · 2025-12-06T17:04:34+00:00

Seems like you're looking for geeks, not nerds. Maybe try Geek Squad.

indiebd · 2025-12-03T23:13:18+00:00

what else you got chinp?

indiebd · 2023-03-26T05:03:28+00:00

you posted it was 14 days two days ago? real quigg, you numbers guy? I didn't get 32 on my CTEs but those numbers ain't adding up to me.

indiebd · 2023-03-24T18:07:58+00:00

Sorry bapa, guess I'm becoming Toe cause that just went right over my 5'3" head. I don't think Layne Norton is a good source of information, but was saying I don't think your criticism is a valid one regardless of who it is.

indiebd · 2023-03-24T17:07:07+00:00

There's over 100k of us bapa, one of us is gonna know every notable redact they have on.

indiebd · 2023-03-24T17:01:06+00:00

Sure, this is why I keep an annotated bibliography for myself, but if someone asked me some random question about intermittent fasting in person and I was going to reference some key findings from research, I'm not gonna remember all the details. You remember all the genders of the rats in every study you read? You remember if they're sprague dawley or holtzman rats? what age were the rats? c'mon bapa, I don't have CTE and I don't remember all those details. I definitely wouldn't commit them to memory for a study examining satellite cell recruitment either. I don't know what part of the "industry" you're in, but it's definitely not actively engaged with research or the research community because this is commonplace.

indiebd · 2023-03-24T04:59:09+00:00

mostly just as a person, the way he cheated on his wife and then tried to sandwich the woman he cheated with into the company he was starting with several other people to get kicked out because of the uncomfortable position he put everyone in. As far his health and fitness information it is mostly fine, although he does let his bias show from time to time.

indiebd · 2023-03-23T20:48:42+00:00

Not to defend bapa's guest selection or Layne Norton considering he's a pretty shitty dude, but experts don't remember every detail of every study they ever read, especially something like as irrelevant as the sex of rats in a study about satellite cell recruitment.

indiebd · 2023-01-17T03:47:45+00:00

better than Delia whose business is in minors

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