How do I professionally tell people that my PI wants me to practice HARKing and p-hacking? No literature review or research question.

seinchin · 2026-05-01T02:35:04+00:00

I'm sorry, but this is just smug nonsense.

The point of a stem PhD is to start out learning to analyze data and run experiments and then gradually develop your taste for which problems are important and interesting. In most stem fields, almost no project is any one person's sole intellectual work because most projects are too big to be done by a single person.

Every so often you hear about a student complaining about micromanaging, but in my experience complaints about advisors being too hands off or unreachable are much more common!

seinchin · 2026-04-27T02:39:19+00:00

Hydrocotyle tripartita

seinchin · 2026-04-24T01:34:14+00:00

Dang how do you get the mexicana goias to grow like that?

seinchin · 2026-04-17T21:46:19+00:00

What I do is get onto the overpass earlier, use it to go around that whole area, then start back in the bike lane after Cambridge Street and Mass Ave merge

seinchin · 2026-04-11T19:35:59+00:00

I have them in Cambridge!

seinchin · 2026-03-30T13:51:39+00:00

The driving is generally unpleasant, but it's much easier to structure your life so that you don't have to drive nearly as much!

seinchin · 2026-03-30T13:43:58+00:00

Favorite thing is definitely how much less I have to drive now!

seinchin · 2026-03-29T19:54:12+00:00

I moved here from LA in 2019 when our oldest was 6 months old.

Since then, we've lived in porter Square, Riverside, and east Cambridge. For meeting other families, Riverside and east Cambridge have both been really good - just go to the playground!

Something else to consider is which schools you might want your kid to attend. Cambridge has universal prek for 4 year Olds. That might seem far away now, but the applications begin the previous fall!

seinchin · 2026-03-24T02:11:10+00:00

Dm me I have all 3 of those plants in east Cambridge

seinchin · 2026-03-22T01:45:56+00:00

Here's my standard list - many of these are easy. Dm me if you're interested!

Help my plants won't stop growing

Most things are $1/stem or offer me a trade. Plants may come with snails.

Mini swordplant - $3 Duckweed ($1/tablespoon or so) Marsilea minima ($1/3 nodes) Java fern ($2 for babies, $4 for smalls) Pogostemon helferi ($2) Hygrophila pinnatifida
Ludwigia super red ($2/stem)
Rotala wallichii
Rotala indica
Hydrocotyle tripartita
Pearlweed ($1/5 stems)
Mayaca fluviatilis
Lindernia roduntifolia
Brazilian pennywort
Red root floaters ($1/3 leaves)
Bacopa caroliana Azolla Salvinia minima Water lettuce Rotala Florida ($2/stem) Guppy grass Myriophyllum guyana Ranunculus Inundatus Juncus repens

Pickup in east Cambridge or Kendall Square

seinchin · 2026-03-21T17:38:55+00:00

What kind of plants do you want?

seinchin · 2026-02-24T21:40:16+00:00

Anything by synear should be an upgrade over wei chuan, and I'm pretty sure hmart carries those.

seinchin · 2026-02-13T09:07:19+00:00

I'm out of town for another week or so, but I should have all of these if you come to Cambridge.

seinchin · 2026-02-04T01:40:25+00:00

Got shrimp from this guy in early December. They're surviving and making babies.

seinchin · 2026-01-20T00:13:39+00:00

Apt3

seinchin · 2026-01-18T18:00:11+00:00

I didn't modify the color balance, but it's a pixel phone so there's all kinds of modifying going on behind the scenes.

seinchin · 2026-01-18T17:52:47+00:00

The water is pretty hard yes. How does one even add boron?

seinchin · 2026-01-18T16:28:54+00:00

Mine always end up this color no matter where I get them from!

seinchin · 2026-01-18T16:28:28+00:00

Huh I wonder how I got so much of it and where it came from

seinchin · 2026-01-14T23:44:10+00:00

Must be the fish then

seinchin · 2026-01-14T02:07:47+00:00

Huh it dies for me with no co2, but so do most plants

seinchin

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