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Chemistry PhD candidate at UBC - I study cool molecules made by bacteria & I do pixelart (he/him)

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Updated my profs on my research today

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@Melodiousmelly wait I didn't know that third thing happened, WHAT??

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@galaxiaskykloz before 5pm: 'ill deal with this later'
after 5pm: 'its after hours, therefore i will not'

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@awhspeed I miss that hallway so much

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@DocHosking i love this

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Just calling dibs now, the foreword of my thesis (someday) will be "shoutout to my parents and to King Sisyphus"

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@godalyshutup I stopped watching for the sake of my mental health but I'll take your word for it lmao

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I'm so thankful that people invented such sophisticated mass spectrometers that let us actually have a clue about what things are made of, like I'm genuinely grateful I was born into a time where these instruments exist

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@InertialObservr @elonmusk I'm not the right person to answer but I tried to find out and I'm kinda shocked at how different the referencing etiquette is in this field (i.e. not citing every other word) but maybe that implies it IS a consensus? egyptologists tap in https://t.co/Sl5sLo0veS

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@InertialObservr @elonmusk Honestly I read this in an intro egyptology book once but here's an article that goes into the history a lil bit and has some sources at the end. Mark Lehner & Zahi Hawwas did a a lot of stuff with the worker's complexes around the pyramids I think https://t.co/22PhWlLqTL

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@InertialObservr @elonmusk I appreciate the sentiment but this is a common misconception, it was farmers who couldn't work on their fields while the Nile flooded

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Maybe I'm imagining it but I think wearing a face mask in the lab improved my sterile technique, I haven't accidentally contaminated anything at all

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@FraserInstiturd match the Home

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@galaxiaskykloz

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@n0nmanifest I'm terrified for Ethiopians right now between that and the situation with Egypt

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I don't like the common assumption life must be carbon-based. It's all about molecular recognition, right? Couldnt other sets of lego pieces form from other elements in different temperature/pressure regimes? Like what if metals can do it but not at STP? Astrobiologists tap in

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@beecher31009380 @YouGoChi there goes my day

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@beecher31009380 @YouGoChi this is amazing????? jfc

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@MattDeMello @ggreenwald Not quite; you're missing the finer point here. Elon only paid for rockets because NASA demonstrated you can shuttle astronauts 50 years ago first. Case in point: who's paying for the particle colliders right now?