OptoVaris

The Double-Blinded, Queen of Western Blots, Breaker of Protein Complexes, Mother of Bottle Stocks | #SyntheticBiologist with faible for #Optogenetics

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Australia 🖤🤣

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It's been a while, I haven't really been active on this account latelty, but I wanted to share this recent paper that I had the pleasure to contribute to, about a fascinating LOV domain to expand the #optogenetic "toolbox" 💡
https://t.co/SGvqsIRanZ

[geist @derGeistbot]

the abstract the paper

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@punkrockscience @MiMrMa @Helena_LB I'd read that as "1:prio" as in "priority" but I'm clueless what it could mean so I'll go with that interpretation instead.

[Anna Chen @doc_anna_chen]

In today's edition of 'Oh my god what are they doing in this science stock photo???'

[Janelle Shane @JanelleCShane]

As @thomas_macaulay notes here, @guardian's GPT-3 generated article was actually assembled by a human editor from 8 generated articles.

They don't post the original articles so we can't see how much the editors intervened. But I have GPT-3 access.
https://t.co/5UBMkKjB8V

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So in my new job I no longer work exclusively with synthetic genes that I get to assemble like lego, but have to look at actual, real genetic information to figure things out.
Including such fun moments like:
"Isoform 1 is encoded by transcript variant 3"
WHY

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I suspect everyone who studied biotech/biochem/molbio/similar had such a wall at some point :'D

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@MiMrMa Und was die alles für Daten von einfachen pH Teststreifen auslesen konnten! Wozu MassSpec wenn es so einfach gehen kann!

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@MiMrMa "Supershark".
Ich mein, es war von Anfang an klar dass das B movie trash sein würde, aber die Meeresbiologin war unfassbar.
Riesiger Hai springt hoch genug aus dem Meer um einem Kleinflugzeug nen Flügel abzubeißen - ihr Kommentar: "Evolution - er kann jetzt fliegen!"
😆

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*Twitter auf*
Irgendwas über Corona-Maskenpflicht-Stasi-Diktatur-Vergleiche, Verschwörungstheorien und generelle Feindseligkeit in die TL gespült bekommen

*Twitter wieder zu*

noch nicht mal 9 Uhr und ich hab schon wieder alles satt.

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@DanniNDR Congrats!! :D

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@DennisEckmeier @Docteur_Drey thanks!

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@DennisEckmeier I knew they were "smart" but that they can learn/memorize is new to me! Do you have a publication or source where I can read up?

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12-15k is my "regular" distance for relaxed runs now, but considering where I was in Feb/Mar I still often feel like it's "not good enough".
But seeing this old tweet really put that into perspective just now.

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I was scrolling through my feed looking for something specific when I came across this. Update since then: Earlier this year I was training for a marathon, around March I was running 30k for the first time.

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I think I experienced a 'runners high' for the first time in my life today.
My normal track is ~6km but part of it was blocked today due to an event, so I had to turn around and decided to continue along in the other direction. Ended up 'exploring' and running 8.5km.

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The marathon eventually got cancelled due to the pandemic, and I injured my foot and had to take a break, which was a real bummer. I'm slowly trying to ease myself back into really long distances, and hope to get to 40k before my birthday in September.

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@kleinerschwamm Yep, that's what I keep thinking! I want to work at a place that wants to hire *me*, not somebody I'm pretending to be! And that's good advice about "meeting the team". Let's see if I get any replies to my applications at all XD but I'll keep that in mind!

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Trying to transition from academic research to industry I am now faced with the question of whether my looks will impact my chances of getting a job. E.g. currently I sport bright blue hair.

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@kleinerschwamm I don't usually add a photo (mainly because I am personally convinced that the "first look" at a CV should be about qualifications only). It's still easy to find out what I look like because most online application systems allow to add a link to linkedin, and I have a photo there

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Oh how I wish for a world where qualifications and skills count more than mere appearance. But I live in a country where it's still customary to put a photo on your CV, so I'm feeling a bit pessimistic.

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But I'm aware that not everyone sees it like that, and I am somewhat anxious that industrial settings will be less permissive about looks (although it probably depends on the job, how much "outside/customer/client contact" would be involved)