#Life sciences

[thatwizardofearthsea]

Also PhD and PD periods are super hard on one's mental and physical capacities. There is huge instability. You're constantly expected to fight for having a funding in order to do your job but also live. That is insane. That is an inhumane system to continue. Nobody can be a genius under that kind of pressure. There is a reason of brain drain from academia.

[science70]

Life sciences biological laboratory concept pictured in Space Station: Key to the Future (NASA, 1971).

[stone-cold-groove]

Snowy Heron or White Egret detail. John James Audubon - 1835.

[miss-biophys]

Researcher’s dream continues. 🥳🥂🍾

My research papers were cited in 300 scientific studies.

2012 ... 1st paper published as a BSc. student

2019 ... PhD award, start of postdoc, 8 papers published

2020 ... 100 citations

2021 ... 200 citations

2022 ... 11 papers published, others in preparation

2023 ... 300 citations

This is encouraging! Achievements like this bring me joy and motivation to keep doing good science. Especially in times when I feel like the results just don’t come and I have to work really hard for it.

[g-xix]

also omg been meaning to ask on this page so i can talk to someone:

Does anyone here take medicine/dentistry in a UK Uni + would be willing to talk with me about it a bit?

Just from someone who'd like to go down the route but doesn't really know it all that well yet + needs some explaining to x

[peregrinefalcon19]

Currently in my 3-hour biostatistics class while making this post. I want to skip this class since it's just so much easier to self-study than listen to our prof.

Also, this week is our university's org week! I just signed up for 7 orgs-

[finechina-jpg]

Trying to focus. I'm currently studying Oncology and Hematology in a post graduated course. It's been really nice to review those subjects I already study in college.

Reinstalled Forest and hope to be more consistent with my studies.

[er-cryptid]

[too-cool-for-facebook]

Poorly describe an animal and I'll draw it

(Don't say what animal it is, not in the tags either)

[thatwizardofearthsea]

In order to make great discoveries and come up with exciting ideas you need to have peace and quite. You need to have a slow pace to digest and go over the details. In current academic climate that isn't possible but also it is frowned upon. I think we'll be hearing more cases like Stanford President's fake papers and data in the near future.

[amiralibanani]

The Lineage & Differentiation of Human Blood Cells

All blood cells originate from a hematopoietic stem cell known as a Hemocytoblast. Through multiple rounds of differentiation, this Hemocytoblast becomes erythrocytes, lymphocytes, thrombocytes, and every other type of blood cell that we know of.

[lost-in-microbiome]

Can somebody tell me what microorganisms can be these blue coloured colonies on EMB agar? The sample was randomly collected from soil.

[miss-biophys]

Not bad...

Almost 80 citations of my research articles in the last year... I would say it’s not bad. It eases a bit my feeling of “I don’t know what I am doing here!” that I sometimes have. 

[tenth-sentence]

Even so, in the same preface he reiterated that it was the sciences of life which had the greatest potential to revolutionise human life.

"Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture" - Jon Turney

[studentbyday]

hiiii fellow aspiring bioinformatician! it's so nice to come across people that are taking on a similar journey ^=^ what courses have you taken and how are you finding them so far? which are your favorite ones?

(oh also I just need you to know, that dear/deer pun has me laughing for the past ten minutes asfhkkgddjgfhjgfhsfs)

hii yes it is! ☺️ i'm not that far along into my degree yet, just taken some basic bio, physiology, and (am still taking) chemistry. i kind of have to tell myself i like all of them equally so i maintain interest in them and continue to study hard 😂 i guess cell biology was my true favorite so far tho.

what about you? what courses have you taken and which are your favorites? you're studying engineering, right?

glad you liked the deer pun! 🦌ppl usually roll their eyes at those XD