Arsh

scientist, phd @caltech

[Arsh @ArshKhetan]

also the way we are currently trained as grad students, there is little exposure to biology in the wild or in agriculture which produces a massive disconnect between the bench and reality

[Josie Zayner @josiezayner]

Beef prices are at all time highs and herd levels are at all time lows. And people think we are somehow going to get out of this without genomics and gene editing. That we can just continue to breed cattle the same way we did in the 1950s. You can't eat software.

[Arsh @ArshKhetan]

when the university is so poor they can't even host a weekly biology seminar with pizza

[Arsh @ArshKhetan]

i am extremely serious, shitty sharpies are severely holding back my innate bench prowess

[Arsh @ArshKhetan]

the biggest bottleneck in biology is the dearth of sharpies that actually work well

[Arsh @ArshKhetan]

@arjunrajlab Also biology is VAST, and choosing the right subfield and questions can make the difference of if you are able to use your talents well

[Arsh @ArshKhetan]

@shae_mcl I'm very jealous, I'm finishing up my third rotation. The first lab hit capacity, the second PI shut his lab, so all my chips are in this one (I do like it a lot)

[Arsh @ArshKhetan]

where are all the parks in la? and before you say griffith or any of the canyons or the san gabriels, those are not it

[Arsh @ArshKhetan]

@dimorgeus stay tuned!

[Arsh @ArshKhetan]

i'm going to start inviting my non-science friends to my lab meeting presentations

[Arsh @ArshKhetan]

my roommate told me this is because thailand has cooking schools for anyone who wants open a restaurant abroad, is this true?

[Arsh @ArshKhetan]

all decent thai restaurants taste quite similar since thai food is based on a lot of ingredients and not much technique

[aru @arubikscube]

"virtual cells" do we even have virtual FBS

[Arsh @ArshKhetan]

people who think synthetic cells will reveal how biological complexity and rudimentary consciousness work crack me up

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

Google has saddled itself with a "simulated water does not make you wet" philosopher

[Arsh @ArshKhetan]

@NikoMcCarty I think a major aspect of it is that we don't have good theories of collectives yet. We can use differential eqs/dynamics to now model and predict behavior of multigene networks with accuracy; but, go up in scale and we don't know the core parameters that are context independent

[Arsh @ArshKhetan]

@ryan_prend it's completely overhyped, i don't think producing a bunch of signaling data and training some AI models on it is going revolutionize manufacturing of tissue or treating neuro or other crazy diseases

[Arsh @ArshKhetan]

loll

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[Arsh @ArshKhetan]

@ryan_prend yes

[Arsh @ArshKhetan]

physics is so 20th century

[Arsh @ArshKhetan]

@josiezayner If you like PKD try Valis and definitely look into some Paul Auster, I'd recommend The New York Trilogy or the Book of Illusions

[Arsh @ArshKhetan]

i heard someone say npc and all i could think of was nephron progenitor cell