• owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    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.

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    16 days ago

    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…

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      15 days ago

      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.

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      15 days ago

      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.

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        15 days ago

        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.

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    16 days ago

    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

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    15 days ago

    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???

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      15 days ago

      “How much DNA do salamanders absorb from the environment, and how much of that gets incorporated into their DNA?” I would assume.

      • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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        15 days ago

        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.

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          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