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Big ADHD mood

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‪The importance of stupidity in scientific research | http://jcs.biologists.org/content/121/11/1771‬

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welp, i finally accepted an offer so it looks like i’m officially going to grad school!!

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unmute this for the love of god

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unstoppable force (my thirst for an education) vs immovable object (my excutive dysfunction preventing me from actually doing any work)

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If Scientific Journals Were Honest

Nature: 90% whatever’s hot in bio right now, 10% other

Science: 2 pages of a really cool story, 50 pages of supplement

Cell: your entire dissertation edited down to 20 unreadable pages

PNAS: papers Academy members couldn’t get into better journals

PLOS one: papers non Academy members couldn’t get into better journals, but open source

eLife: papers people couldn’t get into PLOS one

Nature [insert field]: research that isn’t hot enough for Nature

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics: we couldn’t decide if we were one field or two

JACS: chemistry you’re pretty sure is cool but honestly you’re not sure you understand

Angewante Chemie: JACS but German

Advances in Physics: scientific journals: a statistical approach

Astrophysical Journal: not nearly enough pictures of space

Actual Journal of Your Field: solid science, interesting, low impact

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Paths of 800 unmanned bicycles being pushed until they fall over

via reddit

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snow day!! ☺️

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im actually laughing so hard at this

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this semester is gonna be good!

an intro to anthropology class that should be at least somewhat interesting and really easy.

i’m taking nonlinear dynamics and chaos, and the professor seems nice and i think it will be fun.

my thesis really shouldn’t be bad. there’s a lot i want to do, but not much left that i’d have to do before i start writing.

data mining and predictive analytics. a little bummed, i assumed we’d be working in python or R but we’re using JMP which seems like really dumb software. idk, trying to stay open minded, but it’s definitely targeted more for business people than math people which isn’t what i expected (it’s offered through the math department).