parandall.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, neuroscientist, husband, father, amateur home improvement expert, level 10 slinky disentangler
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Go with a willow! I planted an 18 inch sapling 5 years ago, it’s 25’ tall now with a beautiful arbor
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Or the images of their lungs just black and caked. My aunt actually had to have neck and throat cancer surgery from chain smoking and it required them to split apart her mandible apart. She had to have a trach w/ breathing tube for months while she healed. If you needed a reason not to smoke…
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I stopped paying attention to him. What is it this time?
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Just had a meeting with a more senior PI who seems very confident his section is meeting in March
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As someone who’s caught it from my kids 3 times, can confirm it’s awful as an adult
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This. I keep hearing from people “well, there was certainly waste in the system that needed to be addressed.” Too many people think this is a baby/bathwater situation where there was some underlying good intentions. No. This is a scorched earth campaign.
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I'd post the padme/anakin meme but this feels too dark for it.
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That’s the thing though, where are the guardrails to stop them from just cutting off the money to folks already awarded? Suffering is the point here.
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Oh this would be fun! We just got a grant doing exactly this, we just don’t have enough data yet! Maybe next time!
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In this case, I would say it sort of petered out with both sides basically being shoe-horned into one loosely accepted idea and everyone moved on with their lives. To the point that I observed exactly that taught in our graduate neurpharmacology course introduction just the other day.
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Well one side is deceased....so there's that (though their memory lives on for better or worse). I mostly observed that many folks thought this was an argument about nomenclature (it wasn't) and didn't much care otherwise and went back to the grind.
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I was a trainee for one side of what some might consider one of the greatest science rap battles ever 😂. Did it accelerate anything? I certainly thought so at the time. At least I thought it was changing the conversation. I'm less convinced these days.
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Wooooot!
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Ugh, sure guilt me into answering all these emails.
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Just like my house!
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New pup??!!!!
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Pittsburg breaks everyone eventually…
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and what this means for your weekend...
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good to know!