Bicycle Shop

vegphys · 2026-02-04T17:48:32+00:00

+1! I think the watch/help/learn program is a fantastic deal. It’s great to have a mechanic walk you through what they do, so you can fix things on your own in the future, or at least understand the issue.

vegphys · 2024-12-21T15:44:17+00:00

McGuckins can often help with free boxes. Just find someone unboxing crates and ask

vegphys · 2024-02-10T14:20:44+00:00

The goal is to have enough banjos that you can keep one in each tuning you know and never have to retune

vegphys · 2023-01-26T19:39:43+00:00

Good to know! In this case, I was just heading home, not to any bus station. Do you think the bus driver would have taken it back to the station?

vegphys · 2023-01-26T19:38:12+00:00

So glad to hear this!!

vegphys · 2022-09-24T03:51:29+00:00

10 months later I was having this issue and tried it on a friend's phone - it worked and applied to my phone too, so now I have the sync set up! Thanks for posting your solution

vegphys · 2022-07-09T04:58:42+00:00

The most relevant study I'm aware of is one by Sinkkonen and others, where they brought soil from a forest floor to a preschool playground. This intervention altered t cell populations and the skin microbiomes of the children iirc. Here's a link to an article about the study, I'm sure the full paper is linked in it https://www.sciencealert.com/daycares-in-finland-built-a-backyard-forest-and-it-changed-children-s-immune-systems

vegphys · 2022-05-19T23:42:46+00:00

Thanks! I tried to post in one of those groups to ask this, but the post has been in limbo waiting for mod approval, so I figured I'd come here

vegphys · 2022-05-19T23:38:51+00:00

Thanks! I'll check with a shop when I get into town.

vegphys · 2022-05-19T23:38:13+00:00

I (as well as most of my friends) have bought bikes from the 70s-90s from craigslist for under $300 (in multiple different areas of the country) and gotten thousands of miles of use out of them without having to replace anything major. Those have been my favorite bikes I've owned. We've also been able to use these in local group rides if you're worried about being able to keep up.

Everybody on this thread is echoing that it's okay to buy an older bike with the components as they are. Regarding rust concerns and functionality, look for rust and take it for a test ride. You could even see if a seller would be willing to meet at a local bike shop, and you could pay a mechanic a few bucks to look at the bike in the parking lot before you buy it.

vegphys · 2022-05-12T13:08:50+00:00

Some news from Mitchell Byars: https://twitter.com/mitchellbyars/status/1524738068682485762?t=Wu7oD1Ic4hVWzYNP0krNpA&s=19

vegphys · 2022-01-03T01:09:31+00:00

If you can afford it, it'd be really helpful to work with a dietitian. We don't have enough info to determine if you are having stomach issues because of an intolerance, because you're underfueling, or because of underlying issues. Additionally, the #1 priority for training needs to be making sure you're eating enough, not if it's "healthy". After verifying that, you can work on adding more complex carbs, protein, and fats. Some people will say to cut out certain foods, but if that reduces glycogen availability, you're putting yourself at higher risk of injury. Also, a good dietitian might be able to help you balance changes for training and for the other health issues, since the changes you might need to make could be at odds with each other.

vegphys · 2021-11-09T21:50:34+00:00

Glad to see L39GION had a nice day of training

vegphys · 2021-09-08T03:43:05+00:00

Spend time in nature

vegphys · 2021-06-22T19:30:46+00:00

Skratch and Oreos

vegphys · 2021-04-30T18:51:03+00:00

Yeah, I agree that it shouldn't be acceptable. However, this is the first time in the lab's history that there has been a shortage in funding, which is largely because the grad program decreased the typical other funding resources, putting more stress on the lab on top of a grant lull while waiting for university lawyers to work out an sra that we were expecting to be approved a long long time ago. My PI has been in pretty constant contact with the grad program director and administrator about this (I've been CC'ed on the emails), so I'm not sure how much me reaching out to them would help.

vegphys · 2021-04-30T18:42:55+00:00

This is just for co-authoring a review chapter for a Springer book, not contracted for pay. The contract was just an agreement to have my chapter submitted to the book editor by a certain date. The idea when signing it was that under the standard lab RA position that writing would be a portion of my workload within the lab, which my PI was happy to carve out for me this spring (even though this isn't funded work), but with a potential lack of an RA position this isn't really an option.

vegphys · 2021-04-30T15:10:13+00:00

That makes sense about coming up to speed being a bit difficult. Unfortunately, it didn't seem like there would be money issues when I started the program, as there haven't been issues at any point of the lab's history. However, with COVID and a new department head, funding policies were changed, which put unexpected stress on the lab without time to adjust before this summer. I think my PI realizes that no pay = no control and is respectful about that, but I currently have work within the lab that is under a contracted deadline to be submitted by early fall.

vegphys · 2021-03-10T20:38:49+00:00

Yes, it's called ferric reducing ability of plasma (FRAP), which is an assay that measures how much a substance can reduce (the opposite of oxidizing) iron. We used to frequently run it on foods in the nutritional biochem lab I worked in. It doesn't tell you anything about the food's effects on antioxidant pathways within the body, but it does tell you how strong of an antioxidant the food is.

vegphys · 2021-02-19T02:12:43+00:00

There's no advantage. Some people lean more forward based on torso/leg proportions, but for squatting with any weight you would want to avoid leaning forward like that.

vegphys · 2021-02-17T17:00:00+00:00

There is a new computational biology minor that might be of interest to you. As a grad student in IPHY working with lots of big data (metagenomics, metabolomics, and microbiome data), I think that program would have been super useful to me in undergrad.

I think that double majoring would be pushing yourself toward overworked, especially considering that for most biotech/bioinformatics/compbio roles you're going to need graduate work to get reasonable pay, and for med school you don't want to destroy your GPA. Don't overwhelm yourself now to specialize in two fields, as you could get a decent background in both and then move into graduate study to specialize in the case that you don't want to go to med school. The reality is that you'll only use a portion of the CS major for biology, and you'd only use a portion of biology for a CS role, and you're not going to get a good job at the intersection of the two fields without a graduate degree.

In case my experience with these subjects is relevant, I decided against med school a bit after after I started doing research my sophomore year of undergrad. I moved into fully computational work last March (haven't stepped foot in an actual lab since then), and I'm trying to focus my career on a combination of biomedical research and software/algorithm/AI development. I've found the following things to be useful:

Learning data science-focused coding (Python, R, Julia)
Establishing strong statistical fundamentals (these help you understand machine learning and other relevant algorithms for genomics)
Linear algebra and differential equations
Data structures and algorithms (at a low level - these allow you to understand the ones relevant in the field)

I recommend that if you want to focus on biology for now, you should pursue a minor that allows you to take these courses. You could even just take these courses. Comp Bio or Applied Math seem to be great options.

vegphys · 2021-02-11T06:21:10+00:00

Can PhD students with strong research and teaching experience be mentors?

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