Research Is Such A Wild Ride.
research is such a wild ride.
like. one moment, you're doing find and you have the right paper and you know exactly what the major and minor alleles are, and what the frequency is, and then suddenly you get to trying to figure out what in god's name trichohyalin is actually doing. and. no one would like to tell you, because for some reason is hidden behind so many dang fancy words you don't know, which are hidden in different sections of a paper (is it in the abstract? or do i have to read to the intro? or is it in the discussion? or god forbid, the methods?) and that's hidden behind some stupid 40 dollar paywall. like. god.
....also the article is from either 1980 seems very sus or from 2018 but it's using math that's at least three classes ahead of what you can begin to comprehend.
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i love that when writing cover letters, i have to keep going back to my resume, going "wait, what skills do i have again? oh right, i can read that kind of graph. let's put that down."
the HOYO artificial upwelling project in japan...
such a rip to feed all the lil phytoplankton-ey bois all that phosphorous, nitrogen, calcium, and silicon to ultimately have growth limited by sunlight... like bruh...
cool facts
- AgNO3 (silver nitrate) clots blood! it's actually got several medical applications! (and is often in military first aid kits!)
- when oil spills happen, the bacteria which can metabolize polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) tend to rise in population, and those that cannot tend to decrease!
large empires in history be like "we tried to solve a problem by creating an even larger one."
me talking about my research project to non-science folks: yeah, so i'm using bacteria to get rid of oil.
me talking about my research project to science folks/writing about it: i'm investigating how the pH of the solution marine bacteria are cultured in affects their ability to degrade hydrocarbons.
me talking about research in my head: how make bacteria bois the best souuuuuuup? do they like sour soup or no sour soup?
i- it has come to my attention that some of the journal articles i am citing, for a school paper, sound like tabloids???
examples:
How Enigmatic is Hans Christian Andersen?
Seeing Andersen as He Isn’t
Like bro?
google's auto responses are killing me..
my friend (the sweetest angel who looked over my paper for me) has highlighted the work "Lamarckian," asking "what does this mean?"
google's auto responses?
"i don't know" and "sorry."
"what is this?" "i don't know. i wrote this paper. but i just... don't know."
alternatively.
"what is this" "sorry." no context. just sorry.
geoengineering be like:
no one:
absolutely no one:
some random scientist named dr evil: y'know what sounds like a really good idea? froth the fucking ocean, make meringue earth using CO2.
part of the scientific community: huh... y'know, what if we just... tossed a bomb? but like, into the ocean. in the middle of a hurricane. cuz. that works. 100%
another equally ridiculous part of the scientific community that is like 100% white military men: ...okay, but what if we put frickin hydrofluorocarbons into the atmosphere. yes, it will cause warming. we know. we just wanna. play god.
"what skills do i have" is of course followed by "what job do you want me to do, exactly? oh, right. that, the one that matches my supposed skillset. right. that."
i love that when writing cover letters, i have to keep going back to my resume, going "wait, what skills do i have again? oh right, i can read that kind of graph. let's put that down."
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