Every time it's snowed this year I've had to confront the fact that it may be the last snow I'll see in my lifetime :agony-yehaw:
True but there is also a real safety difference driving a small sedan when everyone else in your town drives brodozers. Doesn't matter how good your airbags are when a lifted F350 runs right over you :agony-yehaw:
That's the fun thing about medical school, you usually don't learn anything about public health! Instead you get blasted with four years of material, most of which you won't use in your specialty, and almost none of which covers public health, working with minority populations, or any other "trivial" topics
The middle of the venn diagram between "does enough work on computers that they want a second monitor for their laptop", and "would purchase something as doomed to break as this", has got to be tiny
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5867888/ Here's a good review which focuses on the connection between the gut microbiome and weight. Published in 2018 it's a good starting point, but we've already learned so much more in the past four years due to an increased research focus on this field (https://www.hmpdacc.org/).
While dies does impact your gut microbiome to a significant degree, it's also hugely impacted by which bacteria colonize your body in the first place. For example, babies delivered via C-section vs vaginal delivery are colonized by different microbes from their birthing parent's skin, and this difference has been shown to carry through adolescence. A lot of "pop science" has started to focus on altering microbiome composition as a treatment approach, but underplay how difficult it can be to displace established microbial communities.
Another weight factor that can't be controlled are the microbes in your body! Some people's microbiomes are less efficient at extracting nutrients from food, forcing them to eat more to be healthy, and putting on weight as a side effect. Leading researchers in human health and the microbiome will tell you straight up that weight is something most people can't directly control, but people continue to conflate it with a moral choice.
In the "good old days", we had loads of applicants from outside the US for academic research positions. Now most people I know who are finishing their PhDs or post-doc research are mostly applying to faculty positions abroad. Super cool trend that I'm sure in no way will impact the scientific community in the US :agony-yehaw:
Crisis for thee, but not for me :the-democrat:
Honestly wild how the entire premise for the villain gaining power is a clear condemnation of liberals and moderates in general, something the series even acknowledges, but then ends with "well, I guess we just need better moderates!"
Step away from the lathe, I'm begging you jack
Yeah very excited to see how the Fall semester goes now that COVID has been completely wiped from the academic psyche allowing us to pack enormous groups of students into small, poorly-ventilated spaces, with no pressure on them to reduce socializing. Fortunately we've come full-circle back to "if we don't test we don't have cases", so I imagine instead we'll just have a statistically significant increase in absences and flu-like symptoms
I remember when the CDC first started reducing mask/isolation guidelines a research university I worked with was discussing changing their policy on masks/remote courses/etc to follow. The entire biology department had to get together and basically threaten to stop teaching for the university to continue requiring masks :agony-soviet:
This is one of those things that sounds horrifying without the context. Currently, mice blastocysts and embryos are integral parts of cancer research specifically, and medical research in general, and without these models modern science would be impossible. Advances like these will someday allow us to conduct medical research in effective model systems, without the use of animals in our studies.
Yeah I've seen some of these under the microscope and it's amazing how much they look like the real thing. They're still not completely viable at the moment, but it's a great way to conduct research without requiring mice directly.
The purpose of course being that people who claim embryos one year but not children the next can be prosecuted :agony-yehaw:
Also I really don't see Trump & supporters getting behind whoever the establishment chooses the way Bernie did in 2020
There's definitely a type of liberal which is obsessed with the idea of "getting things done" , with no regard to what those things actually are. That's one of the reasons so many of them like the West Wing, with a liberal lion who "gets things done" like dismantling social security :isaac-pog:
Not to mention that some percentage of car owners would rather just pay the fee than deal with any workaround
As someone that used to work with various fungi in biomedical research -- very lifelike! I had never heard of natural process art, but love the idea of being able to have one of these above my apartment desk to match my lab bench. Thanks for sharing :)