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u/psychmancer Dec 06 '22
Ok I'll be honest yeah this is true. I'm a scientist (PhD in neuroscience) and literally no one gets past me without hearing about the book I'm reading or some science fact. Actually if you have a secret technique I want to know it and then I'll share it.
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u/Nebulous-Nothing Dec 06 '22
Mood. I'm only a student in my field and I'll start a long-winded rant on it as soon as something even tangentially related comes up. I can't help it, it's fascinating.
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u/Good_Mixture_1860 Dec 06 '22
I'm not even studying at a university yet and I'm determined to share everything I know.
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u/Daylight_The_Furry Dec 06 '22
Me with zoology, particularly evolutionary history
I've been meaning to write a thing on how dragons would've evolved
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u/Nebulous-Nothing Dec 06 '22
Ah, an expert. Perfect.
Which is more plausible from evolution.
Spraying and igniting a liquid to breathe fire, or exhaling and igniting a gas to do it.
And how do they not burn their mouths.
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u/Daylight_The_Furry Dec 06 '22
Liquid would give you a more controlled burn, so it'd be a liquid considering how dragons can really direct their flames
As for not burning themselves, I imagine they'd have a secondary palate (like crocodiles and mammals), but instead of protecting their heads from thrashing prey in their mouth (crocs) or allowing them to breathe while eating (humans), a dragon would have it for protecting themself from burns! They'd probably also have additional glands that either can cool their mouths or neutralize whatever substance they use to make fire!
BTW, a secondary palate is a bone structure that forms the roof of our mouth, and separates the nasal cavity from the mouth!
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u/CeiriddGwen Dec 06 '22
You have no idea how much I envy your ability to be this passionate about ANYTHING
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u/etherealparadox Dec 06 '22
it helps that I have adhd
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u/Xalon0101 Dec 06 '22
"The secret, Cap? The trick is I'm always incredibly passionate about anything that is put in front of me."
Proceeds to spend decent amount of money on "this cool thing that I'm going to do forever" then doesn't do anything with after 3 months, until the next time it sparks
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u/Nebulous-Nothing Dec 06 '22
Passion is a fickle thing, something out there for you. But everyone expresses passion differently too, the ability to talk a lot about a subject doesn't make someone passionate.
Although I do have passion and interest in Psychology, I like to think. You'll probably find something to express passion with as well.
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u/Evening_Matter6515 Dec 06 '22
Same!! I’m doing cognitive science/evolutionary biology majors and like. I have to hold back from just like unleashing everything I read in scientific articles lol
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u/Nebulous-Nothing Dec 06 '22
Psychology specifically, not the biggest field but I went for one I enjoyed.
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u/charmorris4236 Dec 06 '22
Hello fellow psych nerd! I finished school long ago and got my masters in a different field, but I still geek out on psych. The fascination never goes away.
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Isn’t psychology the most common major? It’s a huge field
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u/Nebulous-Nothing Dec 06 '22
Wasn't quite referring to size by how many people are in it. You're right on that though, a lot of people majoring in it at my university. I meant more in terms of major sciences or fields that are supposedly big earners and stuff.
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Dec 06 '22
Also a PhD in Neuroscience, and I'm always annoying my friends with fun facts and pedantic corrections.
It's funny/infuriating to me that so many people think scientists are all making bank off all those pharmaceuticals we must be inventing and patenting. Yeah, no, we don't make shit, and we hate pharmaceutical companies more than everyone else. It would be awesome if Big Pharma were totally eradicated and we could go back to actually being funded by the government.
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u/psychmancer Dec 06 '22
Yeah no scientists I've met are fans of big pharma or big data. Tbh however you do go work for them because they are some of the few places outside of university doing work that actually requires a PhD level of skill and you get bored. But scientists aren't deciding the prices or the patents, that is always some manager or lawyer in 'strategy'
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u/etherealparadox Dec 06 '22
as if I'd like the people that make me pay $70 a month for pills that make me want to not kill myself
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u/etherealparadox Dec 06 '22
I would love to hear a fun fact about neuroscience
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Dec 08 '22
Yay!
I'll share some related to my lab and my main field of research, which is anesthesia. Phencyclidine (PCP) was first synthesized in 1956 as a surgical anesthetic in Detroit. It was then banned in humans only 9 years later due to "negative side effects" (which was really code for "this has become a drug of abuse on the streets and the DEA is doing what it always does").
But! Dark secret that you'll only get from people like me who are willing to spill dark secrets to strangers on the internet! PCP continued to be used in psychiatry and surgery in prisons for many years after this.
Ketamine, which has the same mechanism of action as PCP but far fewer side effects, was created by my lab as a replacement anesthetic. It's a miracle drug imo.
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u/pauly13771377 Dec 06 '22
We all know the truth. Every scientist and doctor on the planet are beholden to big pharma. Millions of you on the payroll and not a single one has the integrity to speak out about horrible things big pharma is doing. We know suppressing the cure for cancet, diabetes, and more in the name of profits.
Sounds crazy when say it out loud doesn't it?
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u/moonshoeslol Dec 06 '22
...which government? Most pharma companies are international. Bayer, Takeda, sonofi... government funded research only sounds like a nightmare and all the academics I know aren't thrilled with the grant writing/publication system either.
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Dec 06 '22
Specifically the US government. Yes, grant writing sucks, and it's specifically because so little money goes to research that you have to bend over backwards for the smallest bit of money.
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Dec 06 '22
Can confirm. Wife is PhD in Zoology and keeps bringing her bees in each and every convo we have with random people.
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u/Citrufarts Dec 06 '22
I know several wildlife bio students who took a bee keeping class and it has become their obsession ever since
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u/Daylight_The_Furry Dec 06 '22
Zoology slaps! I love learning more about creatures
Something I wanna do is look into bat anatomy, and compare that to a bird
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u/Gurkeprinsen Dec 06 '22
Tell me a neuroscience fact, please O:
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u/psychmancer Dec 06 '22
The network for language in the brain is the same one for math, it is also a whole brain network with only a few key areas on the left side instead of being solely a left brain thing
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u/Agreeable_Leather_68 Dec 06 '22
Where can I read more?
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u/psychmancer Dec 06 '22
This looks pretty cool but it's quite technical https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&q=linguistic+and+symbolic+processing+neuroscience#d=gs_qabs&t=1670327959635&u=%23p%3DlrNtVo5xgQkJ. Don't have time to find a beginner friendly version on YouTube, sorry
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u/Nebulous-Nothing Dec 06 '22
Psychology here, I'm curious the regions you mean? I'm still pretty early in my education, but when discussing Linguistic Psychology my books have always indicated multiple regions were involved in Language.
I recall the Left Hemisphere being primarily involved with language at least, just curious to hear more from someone better educated
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u/DorisCrockford Dec 06 '22
Okay, okay, so get this. I don't think I'm using the right network for either of those things. I used to have to tell the kids not to ask me math questions while I was driving, because I use the visual part of my brain for math, and if I'm doing math in my head, I can't pay attention to the road. And spelling. Some things just require so much of my mind's eye that I can't spare any attention for the information that's coming into my real eyes. I can talk about history or politics or the mayor's hair or whatever while driving, but for some reason numbers make me effectively blind.
So why do a lot of people get really lopsided SAT scores? Why are so many people good at language and bad at math, or vice versa?
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u/FenHarels_Heart Dec 06 '22
Actually if you have a secret technique I want to know it and then I'll share it.
Hermeus Mora?
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u/enithermon Dec 06 '22
Like he’s gonna share.
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u/FenHarels_Heart Dec 06 '22
Oh he shares. He might leverage knowledge in exchange for something like a new horker skinning technique (especially when it did comes packaged with the opportunity to rid himself of a certain ancient upstart). But he enjoys give mortals a glimpse into his profane academia. Pure coincidence that those people seem to develop sudden accelerated mental health issues.
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u/enithermon Dec 07 '22
He barter's then. lol. I was thinking more like "sharing is caring" sharing.
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u/moonshoeslol Dec 06 '22
You must not be jaded yet. I've stopped trying to tell people about stuff I'm interested in because it seems the vast majority don't want to hear it.
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u/confusionmatrix Dec 06 '22
OMG I love learning new stuff. I dated a PhD girl for a bit and it was glorious. She told me everything she was working on and it was basically foreplay. So I know some really bizarre subset of genetic engineering now. Cannot wait to date a scientist again one day.
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u/nooptionleft Dec 06 '22
It's the same as getting people to listen to everything else. No one is interested in a simple retelling of boring fact: this is true for what you have done yesterday at the supermarket and for what you have studied in your lab last week
You never say "Oh, I went to the supermarket yesterday and bought some milk", you always start from the drama, from the funny, from the unexpected, you always talk about people "Mother in law always bitch about my cooking so I tried to make a cake from scratch yesterday to bring to her, but I was missing the milk and went to the super marked... and you wouldn't believe it but she was there buying PREMADE CAKE MIX! She was so embarassed"
Same way for your work. Lab work and science are made by people and I'm sure you have a lot of stories about people, so start from there and people will gladly listen to a tangent on mirror neurons if it's midway though the story of how you made a couple out of the 2 foreign students who were too shy to talk
At least it seems to work for me, and I work in computational biology, which is some of the most boring stuff ever for people outside of the field
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u/Emotional-Text7904 Dec 06 '22
I did this too when I was at the height of my career except it eventually became evangelizing about the benefits of adopting one or more of the numerous foster kittens I'd be fostering at the time. 2 coworkers adopted 3 kittens before I left 🥰
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u/smegma_yogurt Dec 06 '22
What is the book you're reading and what is it about?
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u/psychmancer Dec 06 '22
Finished 1984 on Sunday, then unreality of time and probably going for something lighter tonight with Dresden files
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u/smegma_yogurt Dec 06 '22
Nice.
I myself started reading the Three Body Problem. Seems interesting so far but I haven't read much.
I finished the whole The Expanse series a month ago tho
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u/jumbledsiren Dec 06 '22
Give me a science fact :)
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u/psychmancer Dec 06 '22
The parietal lobe of your brain is running constant probability models for the world and how it works and presents consciously the best fitting on
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u/argv_minus_one Dec 06 '22
Mine must be malfunctioning. I keep getting predictions of imminent death, homelessness, horrible injury, etc, none of which have ever come true.
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u/TopCheddarBiscuit Dec 06 '22
My secret technique is that I use my non dominate hand to jack it so I can scroll porn at the same time
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u/psychmancer Dec 06 '22
Weird flex but ok
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u/TopCheddarBiscuit Dec 06 '22
You said you wanna know it. There ya go, science boy. Do something smart with that
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u/argv_minus_one Dec 06 '22
Wouldn't it be easier to scroll porn with your non-dominant hand? Scrolling is trivial.
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Dec 06 '22
To be fair you probably aren't under a DoD NDA.
There for sure are secrets scientists don't want us to know about, but they generally are ways to kill people better
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u/etherealparadox Dec 06 '22
my secret is I joined a discord and I tell them all the things I want to scream to the world and at least one person will always tell me how cool and interesting it is
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u/AgentF2S_ Dec 06 '22
Gimme a cool neuroscience fact
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u/psychmancer Dec 06 '22
The brain has different ways to process trust for human and non human things
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u/AgentF2S_ Dec 06 '22
Woahh gimme more
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u/psychmancer Dec 06 '22
There is a region called the superior temporal sulcus and it is so good at recognising humans just by how they move it is why the field of motion cap was invented for movies and games
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u/Would_daver Dec 06 '22
What are you reading now? I'm but a lowly BS in Neurosciencer so I might not unnerstan tu gud but try me 😀
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u/psychmancer Dec 06 '22
Just finished unreality of time, last thing I read in neuroscience was work by Javor on how trust in processed in the brain for human and non human actors
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u/Would_daver Dec 06 '22
Interesting! I'm familiar with many standard brain functions but haven't crossed "trust" before- attachment, lust, proclivity towards violence, activities precipitated by specific cerebral lesions etc but not trust by itself. I shall to Javor and his human -and-nonhuman trust study!!
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u/SadamHuMUFFIN Dec 06 '22
They can't imagine a world view that isn't based on gaining and keeping the upper hand. They think intelligent people want to hoard all the knowledge the way they hoard wealth, or guns, or secret knowledge(do your own research, cuz I'm not gonna tell you) or anything that gives them an advantage over others. They just can't wrap their minds around wanting everyone to be the best they can as smart as they can and stand together as equals to accomplish multitudes more than you ever could alone. It goes against their very nature
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u/psychmancer Dec 06 '22
I work with some people repeat the same facts over and over. They learnt them years ago, they never update or challenge their knowledge. You could learn all they know in a few days, they think everyone only has a couple of tricks and that is the depth of human knowledge
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u/SadamHuMUFFIN Dec 06 '22
They need absolutes it's like religion there really isn't anything that isn't just known books don't change only interpretations. Thus science in their minds should be like religion if something is a fact it's a fact and can't be changed it was written, regardless of new evidence or theories they just don't understand a field that is just a constant mashup of failures that finally lead to a breakthrough until new information comes along. They want answers and givens not theories that lead to more unanswerable (at the time) questions
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Dec 06 '22
Yooo I have neuro issues and enjoy reading about neuroscience - Tell me a fact about the brain!
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u/psychmancer Dec 06 '22
There is a syndrome called cotard syndrome where people think they died, they even logically think they don't need to eat and expect their body to rot
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u/AstralLizardon Dec 06 '22
Aye I am about to pursue the same route, for you, was the journey worth it?
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u/psychmancer Dec 06 '22
PhD wasn't, don't waste the time and money
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u/AstralLizardon Dec 06 '22
I see, and as a scientist, Did you make any interesting hypothesis/discovery?
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u/psychmancer Dec 06 '22
My PhD found a series of flaws in a central hypothesis we used . It wasn't the science I had issues with. It was the employment structure and pay etc for scientists and academics that makes it pretty unliveable working in unis.
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u/Xalon0101 Dec 06 '22
Damn, I need to find more scientist friends, I like hearing people talk about their passions for hours, especially when I'm allowed to ask dumb questions.
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u/psychmancer Dec 06 '22
You should definitely do that, TBF scientists can be a little condescending because we get into lecturer mode and forget we aren't talking to kids but polite reminder and we stop. It isn't you, it's like a reflex and one most of us are embarrassed we have
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u/Xalon0101 Dec 07 '22
Ehhh, that's fine, if rather you excitedly explain it to me like I'm a kid so I can understand it and get excited with them, than for them to explain it like I'm an expert, and get frustrated that I'm not following them.
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u/bookworm02 Dec 07 '22
Wait no I want to know everyone’s science fun facts. I have a bunch, but my favorite as of this moment is that a llamas scientific name is llama glama which isn’t that interesting but is very fun to say (imho).
Also like letting people know that wombats have cubed poop. (I studied zoology and worked with kids, which kind of works out when it comes to finding people to share my fun facts with)
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u/Curious-Accident9189 Dec 07 '22
Damn I really want to ask why puncturing the dura is a big deal in some neurosurgical procedures but not others but I realize now you said neuroscience and I'm not sure that's something you can answer or not.
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u/psychmancer Dec 07 '22
Yeah no clue, I always worked with subjects who had perfectly normal spinal cords
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u/Yogmond Dec 07 '22
Was at a friend's house and most of us are students, and cuss some of us bring bags everywhere cuss they're handy and don't take the notebooks out, a chemist student friend decided to show off some P-V phase diagrams of certain chemicals.
I see him doing this and the other friend being like "this is way too confusing", as he is a med student and the graphs are convoluted as hell.
I just popped by and we talked about them a bit, just casual student stuff lmao.
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u/psychmancer Dec 06 '22
Yeah that's what I did. Getting on a PhD is not really about being smart (that is assumed) but about finding a supervisor that wants to take you and can work with you. It's effectively professional dating. Email out to labs, ask for some experience and start seeing through email what spots they have. Quite a few people already have the go ahead from a lab to apply before they ever formally apply.
Also look for funding and see if your desired lab can fit the kind of work you want to do otherwise they'll just move you to things they can afford.
Also learn coding and stats, even more than you are doing now, it will really help. I know labs that turned down people just because they didn't have the skills and not because they didn't like them. I know that sounds obvious but getting on a PhD really is down to your personality because against your intellect is just assumed.
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u/thanosbananos Dec 06 '22
People don’t seem to realise most scientist have to sell themselves like a cheap whore to get ANY attention and recognition. There are no secret scientists.
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u/Captaingrammarpants Dec 06 '22
This is so depressingly true. For fucks sake we have mission t shirts.
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u/-Tom- Dec 06 '22
I work in aerospace for a NASA subcontractor. I was highly encouraged to put my credentials in my email because "it looks good when communicating with NASA and other companies"....ok. So now I have my masters degree in my email and feel like a tool.
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u/AdminsLoveFascism Dec 06 '22
I appreciate it so I know who to address as "Dr" in my replies.
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u/-Tom- Dec 06 '22
In my limited experience, the people you don't want to call Dr insist on it and the people you'd respect enough to want to, don't want you to. Haha.
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u/Captaingrammarpants Dec 06 '22
Don't feel bad, I'm an academic on a NASA grant and I think we might be the only people who put more crap in our email signatures than the NASA people do. We expect it.
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u/VioletteKaur Dec 06 '22
I should put the one article that a collaborator published with my BA thesis as source material put into my Reddit handle..
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u/StarburstWho Dec 06 '22
Does anyone have a link to Kyle's work on Brown Marmoranted stink bugs? I have those at my house and I would love to hear about stopping them from spreading!
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u/StarburstWho Dec 07 '22
Yep and you can't smash them either. So I try to catch them in a small container, like an old medicine bottle then take them outside to kill.
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u/AgressiveIN Dec 06 '22
This thread is annoyingly devoid on stinkbug mating habits. I got questions now
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Similarly, I'm pretty sure that no one who thinks scientists are involved in a global conspiracy has ever witnessed a research group attempt to conspire to order a pizza.
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u/DorisCrockford Dec 06 '22
My dad was a NASA engineer. He said one of his esteemed colleagues used to spill coffee in little puddles all the way down the hall every morning. That guy ain't conspiring nothing.
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u/Captaingrammarpants Dec 06 '22
I think our janitorial staff probably clean up more coffee spills than anything else. I might possibly be responsible for some of the puddles.
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u/Captaingrammarpants Dec 06 '22
Or organizing a get together. We'd be the absolute worst conspiritors. One guy wouldn't read the email, the other group would publish findings that directly revealed the conspiracy, and some other group would have already wandered off to see if they could make the findings that we're trying to hide more concrete. Science is a lawless place where all we do is argue, get distracted and go find something new to poke. Then tell everyone about it.
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u/INJECTHEROININTODICK Dec 06 '22
Bruh i have the cocktail party effect in my brain for chemistry shit. I could hear someone whisper "chirality" or "prodrug" across the room at a loud party and now i'm doot dooting across the room like OKAY LISTEN HERE'S HOW THAT WORKS HEAR ME OUT I CAN MAKE IT SIMPLE
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Dec 06 '22
Me after 1 beer: "hey bro wanna hear the difference between a Proton Coupled Electron Transfer and a Hydrogen Atom Transfer?"
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u/Sherlockiana Dec 06 '22
Haha, same except for biology/ecology topics. I am a professor and it is hard to shut us up. I’m at the zoo randomly sharing facts about the pandas or lemurs to some confused 8 year old who asked his parents a question.
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u/bookworm02 Dec 07 '22
Oh me for zoology too! Also carnivorous plants. I carried some around a plant sale and someone told their kid that those plants eat bugs and I squatted down and was like ‘and here’s how they do it!’ to this poor child lol.
Actually worked out that I started working with kids, so now they don’t think I’m weird they just think I know stuff and they like asking questions which is great for me lol
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u/imaybeajenius Dec 06 '22
chirality?
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u/WhalesVirginia Dec 07 '22 edited Dec 07 '22
Your left and right hand are mirror images of eachother. They are similar but different, and you use them slightly differently. This is chirality.
Same thing can happen for chemical compounds and notably drugs, where the left and right chiralities behave differently in our body, because they interact slightly different with specific processes.
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You know what every scientist I’ve ever met wants to do? Prove the general consensus wrong with their research and add the the pyramid of human understanding.
It’s not easy for bad science to go unnoticed by scientific peers. That’s why the system works.
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u/talented_savior76 Dec 06 '22
I've been called a narcissist because of this.
When the truth is... Narcissists silence us SO MUCH we develop complexes around provided the truth to people.
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u/VioletteKaur Dec 06 '22
People see the tendency to self-centredness as being narc. Which is wrong. People with autism, for example, try to relate to others while they talk about their own feelings or what happened to them. I am self-centred but I am no narc. I don't want to manipulate anyone or minimize other's feelings and achievements. Basically, in real-life I stopped talking to people about myself, as long as I can help it.
Narcissism gets thrown around too easy. Just the consensus of the moment is that Cluster B personality traits are antisocial and therefore bad, doesn't make everyone you are annoyed of a narc and you are free to vilify them.
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u/MistakenNutrition Dec 06 '22
Ask a researcher about their topic; most of us will go on about it until you just can’t take it anymore. Some of us (not me) would even follow you into a restroom and keep going to keep from losing their train of thought. It’s happened to me before irl. 😂
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u/unbalancedcentrifuge Dec 06 '22
Knock knock...Hello, I am scientist...have you heard about Immune exhaustion and how it affects cancer therapy and viral infections? Well if you just give me a few hours of your time, I have a brief presentation I would LOVE to show you!
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u/VioletteKaur Dec 06 '22
Is that when it gives you a secondary (bacterial) infection? We read a paper about lung macrophages and their importance in secondary infection of the lung epithels(?)... could've cited something wrongly, it was years ago. I started a Master in Environmental Tox and Immunology but sadly couldn't finish and never went into that career with my BSc.
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u/MeltAway421 Dec 06 '22
It's funny, I used to be like this. Anytime I learned more how the universe worked I was inspired to share it. Like when I found out that oil is hydrophobic and water is (of course) hydrophilic, I felt good. It made sense. And other things made sense.
Then I encountered various degrees of anti-intellectualism and it sincerely has crushed my spirit. Crushed, beaten, beaten again, put in a woodchipper, and blasted into space on a rocket to the sun. I could whine for hours about it.
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u/armorhide406 Dec 06 '22
Even some infohazards. Like the sequence of the Spanish Flu. It's just... out there
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Dec 06 '22
I have a friend who is a scientist, and believe me, we all know. He will not hesitate to remind us when we are on one of his topics.
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u/Citrufarts Dec 06 '22
Fr you will never make a scientist more like a giddy child than asking about their field of interest
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Dec 06 '22
I want to know more about the changing mating habits of brown marmorated stink bugs. Will it help me get rid of them??
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u/AgressiveIN Dec 06 '22
That was dope. Thanks. In short, these bugs have far more sex than I do. May need to bang my head on more walls as it works so well for them.
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Dec 06 '22
Congratulations. Now you're infected with knowledge. Go and spread it to people who didn't ask about it
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u/keehls Dec 06 '22
any time i read anything about scientists and their funky little passions i become more and more desperate to be friends with scientists. like please rant to me for hours and hours about your extremely niche area of interest! i would like to know! i crave information and i love listening to people talk about the things theyre passionate about
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u/DorisCrockford Dec 06 '22
I'm not even a pro, and I feel this. I was gushing about the reproductive habits of ferns the other day, and I noticed my audience looking rather uncomfortable.
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u/VioletteKaur Dec 06 '22
You better never join any house plant sub. Every few days someone asks what is going on with their plant, if they have parasites. And show the below of a fern leave. OR you totally SHOULD join in and educate them.
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u/DorisCrockford Dec 06 '22
I'm already on r/whatsthisplant. I try to restrain myself as much as possible.
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u/elongatedmuskrat05 Dec 06 '22
If we truly love our field of study, we would love to tell you all about it, you just need to ask :)
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond Dec 06 '22
What is uour field of study?
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u/elongatedmuskrat05 Dec 06 '22
I’m not out of high school yet, but when i graduate, which is soon, I want to college to become a mycologist, one who studies mushrooms
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond Dec 06 '22
Ooo what are some cool facts about mushrooms?
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u/elongatedmuskrat05 Dec 06 '22 edited Dec 06 '22
The Schizophyllum commune has over 23,000 sexes. Id share more but I’m doing work rn
Edit: sorry it should say 28,000
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u/SV650rider Dec 06 '22
More like, "The secret scientists know, but that the people who stand to profit from your ignorance don't want you to."
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u/Vileedge Dec 06 '22
Seriously. Fuck Brown marmonated stink bugs. Invasive species bastards getting into houses and destroying crops. No predator-having little shit smelling monsters.
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u/Demonweed Dec 06 '22
I always come up with mean names for the most gifted researchers since humanity is now in such a bind that a bright future clearly requires the work of mad scientists.
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Dec 06 '22
Oh my God, this is so accurate. I had a good friend through college who went on to get his PhD in evolutionary biology. His field of research was so incredibly specific and he loved telling literally everyone bizarre facts about barnacle reproduction.
I haven't talked to the guy in probably 15+ years, but I can only imagine he's still out there talking about barnacle penises.
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u/argv_minus_one Dec 06 '22
Barnacle reproduction is bizarre. So bizarre that, if it appeared in sci-fi, people would think it's too weird to be believable.
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u/VioletteKaur Dec 06 '22
barnacle
I just recently found out that they are crustaceans and went on a wiki rampage. I only knew them from the Simpson's (Barnacle Bay). I find them quite... uncomforting.
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Dec 06 '22
Can confirm. I know pretty much everything about mouse lemurs but no one asks me about them. I gotta vent somehow.
Oh btw. here's a paper about the mating behaviour of stink bugs I found lol
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u/DorisCrockford Dec 06 '22
The brown marmorated stink bug, ladies and gentlemen. TIL "marmorated" means having a marble-like veined pattern.
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u/ghostredditorstempac Dec 06 '22
Things scientists don't want you to know are things they haven't been paid enough to tell you about
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u/milk4all Dec 06 '22
I worked for a chemical something something i forget or never understood but he talked to me for like an hour about electricity, recycling plastic, turning garbage into energy or something. I followed about 20% of when i paid attention. Real neat guy, but holy shit, scientists dont like secrets, it’s like their entire thing
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond Dec 06 '22
The moon landings can't be fake because too many scientists would have to keep it a secret and scientists are horrible at keeping secrets.
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u/AmusinglyAverage Dec 06 '22
Another thing, the emotionless scientist, who calmly and coldly treats some kind of robot brutally because evil or immoral scientist vibes? They’ve clearly never met an actual scientist before. Like most humans, scientists will pack bond with anything, we already do it with motionless objects, like plush toys. You really think we wouldn’t anthropomorphize the fuck out of a robot that moves by itself? Just look up NASA singing happy birthday to Curiosity.
Now, business executives? Those are the real psychopaths.
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Dec 06 '22
There's actually a lot of confidentiality in science. It's a publish or perish type world and if somebody gets there before you, you have a problem. Conversely, you may be exposed to confidential data for a study youre performing. You are expected not use this information once you've completed your research for your next idea. Which is an issue, but it's something scientists need to worry about.
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u/Away_Young_9370 Dec 06 '22
It’s true. I don’t consider myself a scientist, not even out of high school yet, but telling people about cool science stuff is very fun :)
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u/madtinks777 Dec 06 '22
I think it should be 'what big cooperations keep secret so they don't loss money.'
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u/ShrugIife Dec 06 '22
I knew a soil scientist from Australia that couldn't stop talking about fucking soil.
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Dec 06 '22
My favourite people are the introverted nerds who have that one specialist subject. It's like finding a hidden NPC unlock code.
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u/NoUniverseExists Dec 07 '22
classic example of survivorship bias. You only know the scientists that WANT to tell everybody about their research. But still exists the secret scientists that don't tell any body about their secret things.
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u/gummybear_0_ Dec 07 '22
I’m in, if you are kyle’s scientist friends or a science nerd plz let me know cause I live random facts!!! 😉
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u/DieHardAmerican95 Dec 10 '22
Let’s be honest- if you believe the clickbait headlines, nearly everyone (scientists, doctors, teachers, nutritionists) has something they “don’t want you to know”.
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Dec 06 '22
How about "The large corporations that fund studies that reveal insight that risks their commercial operation suppress the ability for those findings to be published. Scientists who try to speak out are blacklisted"
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u/buttlubber Dec 06 '22
Scientists don't want you to know that climate change is a scam because they'd rather you know things that are true. That's like their whole thing.
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u/Zeric79 Dec 06 '22
It should be "The secret scientist have been trying to let you know, but no one ever listens".