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by citrate05 9mo ago
It looks like they screened 45 strains of bacteria to find 9 that passed their safety tests, and then only one of those had a 100-percent response. The sample size is also small: 5/5 sounds a lot less impressive than 100%. I'd exp
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by citrate05 2y ago
Just so everyone reading this is clear, it’s not 70% of grant money, it’s an extra 70% on top of the direct costs (41% of the total awarded). A more typical number for a large state university would be somewhere around 55%, or around 35% of
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by citrate05 2y ago
Compliance with policies set by Congress and the relevant funding agencies, which establish standards for things like safeguarding the private health data and safety of study participants, mandating that de-identified versions of data be ma
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by citrate05 2y ago
It does distract from the process of actually doing research, but I will point out that funding agencies take past productivity into account, so you can’t do literally nothing with the money and expect a grant to get renewed.
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by citrate05 2y ago
I would say teaching is not that relevant specifically for most tenure-track positions at big research universities. It is absolutely something you need to demonstrate some actual experience and proficiency with if you get a position at a
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by citrate05 3y ago
Feel free to read “mostly” for “only” in my response, then. My point is still that even outside of Brightline (East — there’s also Brightline West, LA to Vegas) and the NEC, there are actually a lot of city clusters and corridors in America
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by citrate05 3y ago
I don't understand why highway self-driving would help save on costs. You would still have to exit the highway to make stops, and that means you would need a driver to be on board the whole time, right?
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by citrate05 3y ago
There's a big difference between "Amtrak's current long-haul routes do not turn a profit" and "intercity rail in the US only makes sense in the Northeast Corridor." There are many metropolitan areas in America
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by citrate05 3y ago
I don't think the problem is that we can't identify routes that would get a lot of use. It's that people running public transit have been charged with balancing those high-usage routes with service that's meant to serve
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by citrate05 3y ago
If you use hydrogen sulfide as an electron donor, you end up liberating sulfur, not oxygen. Contrary to grandparent, in oxygenic photosynthesis, the oxygen does come from splitting water. The resulting hydride used to "charge" an
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by citrate05 4y ago
Most people naturally become more agreeable over the courses of their lives (as well as less neurotic and more conscientious). Beyond that, intentional personality change also seems to be possible. For example, this is a study that used a c
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by citrate05 4y ago
But the Big Five Inventory [1] does explicitly ask if subjects consider themselves to sometimes be cold, distant, rude, unkind, selfish, or inconsiderate of others, and these answers are all used to compute their (dis)agreeableness scores.
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by citrate05 6y ago
I’d actually go so far as to say that I’m not familiar with any legitimate therapeutic approach that is not concerned with how the patient treats others. I’ve definitely read self-help books that seemed to be advocating for narcissistic beh
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by citrate05 6y ago
I’d be curious to hear a specific example of the toxic or self-centered behavior you’re referring to, since this is not at all my experience.
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by citrate05 6y ago
The point of the article isn’t to never do anything someone else suggests. It’s to get you out of the habit of reflexively agreeing to do other people favors out of anxiety, guilt, or a sense of obligation. If you’ve said “yes” to every r
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by citrate05 7y ago
There's also txtplot ( https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/txtplot/index.html ), which is low-resolution but cross-platform...
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by citrate05 7y ago
The short answer is that "tidyverse" is a set of third-party packages that was developed by a different team than base R. It's not a modification of the language itself. This is possible because of certain features of R that
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by citrate05 9y ago
Exactly. If you raise taxes on graduate students, regardless of how precisely the money gets shuffled around, the net result is going to be less money available for research and the necessary labor, and therefore lower research productivity
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by citrate05 9y ago
A PhD (and sometimes a postdoc) is a requirement if you want to do more than low pay lab-tech work in some fields, like pharma. In the life sciences a PhD is more of a professional degree.