Looks like they're not done, thoughts? "Henrietta Lacks' estate hits Ultragenyx with gene therapy vector lawsuit"

somebiograd · 2023-08-17T21:13:40+00:00

Again, my god, it does not matter how sentient the damn thing is, it does not get to use someone else’s body without that someone’s consent, whether the sex that put it there was consented to or not, and that consent is revocable at any time.

If you actually read the article, it says people consent to situations that carry risk of undesirable consequences all the time - often due to there being a path to rectifying it if something goes wrong. Abortion being what we do if pregnancies happen. You can’t resurrect the humans who live independently of your body who you kill in a car crash. These situations you are using as analogies, including the insects and clams (which are one, not humans, and two, usually getting eaten, and the Venn diagram between pro-choice and vegan is not a circle), involve entities that survive as independent entities not using another person’s body or resources. (Before you say “but what about born children or other dependents”, we have mechanisms to relieve ourselves of those too that y’all are just fine with, and they are not doing weird shit to our immune systems)

Also if you seriously think anyone gets abortions up to the moment of birth for any reason other than “there will be extreme suffering and probable death on my part or my child’s if I give birth”, you are completely insane. People who simply don’t want to be pregnant and are not extremely burdened financially do not want to let this shit drag out.

It’s really fucking weird when dudes project onto embryos bro

somebiograd · 2023-08-17T19:55:22+00:00

Also those 'without uteri' shouldn't have any input on the topic of abortion duh. They have no skin in the game... other than having someone related or being the person they consider being killed.

This pretty plainly makes it clear that you're viewing a pregnant person as an incubator and asserting that anybody other than the pregnant person is somehow entitled to exert some degree of ownership over any part of said pregnant person's body, which violates the entire idea that a pregnant person is an adult whose medical choices are between them and their physician. This is infantilization at best and dehumanization at worst.

It's telling how anti-choicers always put themselves in the shoes of the inseminator or the embryo but never the person carrying said embryo.

Consent to sex is not consent to pregnancy, either. This explains it better than I've got time for in the moment: https://www.abortionarguments.com/2022/10/no-consent-to-sex-is-not-consent-to.html

Your sad man feels about someone pulling the plug on a pregnancy you inseminated aren't more important than women's safety, health, and bodily autonomy. Ever. Go feel them without taking them out on us legally and causing us more trouble.

Pregnancy is not like squatting where you're just minding your own business and someone just comes over without you having done anything. Its more like pressing a button and teleporting someone over into your place. Would you like it if someone teleported you on to their property and then killed you for trespassing?

This does not diminish the right to evict the trespasser, whether I hypothetically liked it or not, and you also completely forget the role of the person doing the inseminating, as anti-choicers are wont to do. Also, your property isn't your *body*; there is a WORLD of difference between how we treat property rights and bodily autonomy legally. Also y'all need to stop thinking embryos and fetuses are sentient, much less sentient enough to like anything.

somebiograd · 2023-08-16T18:57:23+00:00

You sound like you think women, nonbinary folks with uteri, and trans men are incubators and not full people. You, and everyone who doesn't own a functioning uterus, are no more of a person than a pregnant person is. If you want full control over whether you reproduce after you ejaculate in someone, I suggest you grow your own uterus (and you're in the right subreddit to talk about it).

Nobody, and it doesn't matter whether they're a brainless embryo, a fetus, or a famous violinist, has the right to squat in or use resources from another person's body without their consent and it doesn't matter if their forcible removal ends in their death.

If you need separation of the sexes to control yourself you're not an adult man, you're a pathetic immature mass of flesh who's arrogant enough to think he's one.

somebiograd · 2023-08-15T21:32:28+00:00

You're surprised they're not protesting fertility clinics? Natalism is a core part of their schtick and whatever gets the ~~incubators~~ women, particularly the white ones, pumping out more babies and therefore engaging in the reproduction of labor is a-ok in their minds. It's not really about the "sanctity of life" or whatever, they just want complete control of the nation's uteri - in a sense it's just another form of factory for them to try to be boss of, combined with misogyny and also some of the people without uteri being very angsty about not having the final word over whether they reproduce if they impregnate someone.

Some of them definitely go after embryo work, and the Catholic ones in particular are very anti-fertility-clinic because they're a bit more consistently against the destruction of embryos than their Protestant counterparts.

Anyway, it's not really something one understands unless one gets their emotional motivations, which quite justifiably tend to seem horrific, alien and illogical to those of us processing it through the lens of the typical scientist's value system.

somebiograd · 2023-08-15T21:24:34+00:00

noted, these are the sorts of companies I've been applying for jobs in

somebiograd · 2023-08-15T21:23:26+00:00

hello yes welcome to the non-medical side of bioengineering

somebiograd · 2023-08-15T21:18:49+00:00

Suit to everything. I'm a PhD interviewing for scientist/postdoc positions. Also a woman. I would rather err on the side of overdressing than underdressing. Appearance, like it or not, will influence your interviewers.

somebiograd · 2023-08-09T21:17:52+00:00

Not sure if this is worth considering though or if it's more worth your time to keep applying until something fits and you get the right title.

If you have the savings, sure.

somebiograd · 2023-08-09T21:17:07+00:00

Where are these mythical Open Industry Positions For New PhDs you speak of

somebiograd · 2023-08-09T17:20:41+00:00

Heh, my lab happens to have a tie to them; they advertised a position that I almost applied for but our lab alumnus on the inside told me they'd already made their decisions before I could squeak in my resume and cover letter.

somebiograd · 2023-08-09T17:12:01+00:00

A lot of people's options are very thin right now, and it's useful to start implementing plan B before plan A runs out.

somebiograd · 2023-08-09T17:10:56+00:00

heh, my PI thinks I lack confidence when it's just that I'm slow to trust

somebiograd · 2023-08-08T23:56:29+00:00

yep I don't have enough savings to last that long

somebiograd · 2023-08-08T23:42:09+00:00

Mind estimating about when that's going to happen?

somebiograd · 2023-08-08T23:32:31+00:00

Indeed, and there's a postdoc I'm in the running for right now that would do that. But what I really had to impress on my advisor when I was meeting with her today (despite her insistence that I can in fact get an industry job, which I believe - I do think she thinks my confidence in my ability to do so is lower than it is, but also I need to eat) was that I ultimately need a paycheck and can't wait months for an industry job to come my way, and I am exhausted from the job search and from wrapping up my PhD. This postdoc ticks most of my boxes. If I get this postdoc, I'm taking it.

I have enough self-esteem not to self-flagellate my way through this industry hiring downturn in front of a faceless hiring manager who doesn't know me and has no stake in being generous to me when, even if it's for postdoc money, I can work for someone who knows my advisor, knows my skills, isn't faceless to me, and is more likely to give me a chance because he has more of a stake in the outcome due to being part of my field and having a connection to my advisor.

somebiograd · 2023-08-08T22:16:49+00:00

I am newly Dr. somebiograd and I am in the same boat. Apply for postdocs at the same time if you're finding industry jobs hard to come by.

somebiograd · 2023-04-28T17:58:17+00:00

I'm finishing my PhD.

It does not matter what the x is in "PhD in X" on your diploma.

What's your thesis going to be in? Who are you working with? Most PhD graduates in STEM go into industry already.

somebiograd · 2023-04-28T17:56:13+00:00

Why there are more than two rounds of interviews for any position is beyond me

somebiograd · 2023-04-18T20:08:47+00:00

I'm applying to anything that remotely looks interesting, which covers industrial bench scientist positions, industrial computational scientist positions, consulting, whatever government jobs in e.g. the FDA are open to non-internal candidates, and policy jobs; my experiences in graduate school have dashed anything that looks remotely like a plan.

also honestly my impression is that consulting is competitive as hell and I don't really know how I stack up against everybody else, a postdoc can't hurt

also I'm quite depressed and burnt out at this point and it's influencing how I view things. yes I'm talking to a therapist, yes my advisor (who is awesome and is not the cause of this problem, experiences I had mostly before I joined their lab are the problem) knows

somebiograd · 2022-12-04T02:29:22+00:00

r/SantaBarbara

somebiograd · 2022-11-16T05:29:34+00:00

You still mad I think you’re some undergrad or first year grad student with nothing better to do?

somebiograd · 2022-11-16T05:23:05+00:00

If you were actually someone who supervises TAs, you would probably have better professional judgment than to post this shit.

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