My wife and many of her friends are in medical fields, while myself and several of their spouses are in technical fields. We’ve had almost exactly the same exchanges.
I love the exchange, but the backdrop of capitalism demanding results is grim.
I just want everyone to enjoy exploring and sharing without worrying about grants…
Eh, until we’re truly a post scarcity society (if such a thing is even possible) scientist would have to justify use of resources no matter what the system we use.
Stop bringing your practical realism into my dreamworld moral absolutism
You use resources you have to justify them. Maybe to a voluntary committee. Maybe to a Soviet. Maybe to the supreme leaders appointee. Maybe to a sub unit of the technocratic cabal.
Since you’re going to have to explain yourself anyway, may as well just do whatever you want and explain it to the court afterwards.
I help elderly with their technology. A coworker does outreach for community events. We would both rather choke on a revolver than do the others job.
This is my dunderhead comparison. Look mom I’m like the science people in the meme
This is what it’s like being a psych nurse talking to an ICU nurse. It’s the difference between
You put what WHERE???
and
The patient put what WHERE???
What the frog is eDNA?
How Edna writes her name when she forgets she has caps lock on.
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wait if it’s about eDNA? why were they swabbing salamander’s cheeks?
it’s environmental DNA.
Maybe you’re trying to match individuals to dissemination, idk man neither of us were there
“How much DNA do salamanders absorb from the environment, and how much of that gets incorporated into their DNA?” I would assume.
WHAT?
eDNA is the idea of taking a environmental sample like water or air, and finding traces of DNA and figuring out what creatures live in the area. you wouldn’t take a sample from an animal mouth to check for eDNA.
you could tell what salamanders live in a pond by getting eDNA from the water, but no real point in checking the DNA in the salamander mouth.
maybe to double check results for testing.
I’d be pretty impressed if salamanders readily incorporated environmental transposons into their genome. Don’t octopuses rewrite their genetics on the fly though? I think I remember reading something about that years ago
