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What a delight it is to come across people you know while browsing literature outside of your field. It's like finding an easter egg

Good news, I got health insurance. It won't cover anything unless it's an emergency but at least I can maintain employment (because Tennessee State University requires proof of health insurance for grad students but doesn't provide plans). Can't wait to immigrate to a civilized country.

I can see that perspective. While reading "Entangled Life" I felt like several parts were shoe-horned in. "Oak Origins" was shorter but I learned so much more; every chapter had me looking up information on topics from paleobotany to angiosperm reproduction. More length =/= more information.

So Stephen Miller thinks his own ICE goons shouldn't have human rights? Because they are known to torture, rape, and murder.

Sustainable changes will be implemented eventually, either by choice or by necessity. Oil is a perfect example, as is the rising cost of meat.

Currently grading, one of the senior agriculture majors described part of the carbon cycle as "plants eat carbon". The word "photosynthesis" was nowhere to be found.

This man should not be two months away from a college degree. What is happening to the education system!?

I'm "17 5th", whatever that means

Part of the assignment is for students to diagram the carbon cycle and discuss changes to it throughout earth history. This is demonstrating that they cannot just ask AI to do it for them and then copy it down on paper.

A diagram with boxes for the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, fossil fuel deposits, and earth's crust with arrows between them representing flow in the carbon cycle. Most of the words are misspelled (e.g. "Deforstison" instead of deforestation) and the units don't make sense.

This is for my class, but it's here for anyone who wants to demonstrate why AI cannot do their homework for them.

Prompt to Gemini: "Please create a carbon reservoir and flux diagram that includes fossil fuel deposits, earth's crust, the hydrosphere, the biosphere, and the atmosphere"

The times have changed but I guess spiritually I'm a yuppie. I bet yuppies would have been delighted by current hipster things like funky orange wines

I think not taking classes will make this all much easier, looking forward to the candidacy stage

a woman with blonde hair is saying " so i 'm right on the verge of a nervous breakdown " ALT: a woman with blonde hair is saying " so i 'm right on the verge of a nervous breakdown "

Prepping a lecture, lab, and exam questions for a class I'm TAing, studying for my own midterms, trying to get a revision through to submit a paper to a journal this week, and getting a purchase list ready for this summer's experiment. PhDs are exhausting

I hope that this is the eventual outcome of the tunnel Elon is making in Nashville

Our guiding principle must be the inherent dignity of all people

Any soil microbial community ecologists around here? I have some questions about sampling and would appreciate an expert's opinion 😊

If I could walk to a small grocery store that would be amazing. Not a whole Kroger, just some place with produce and the bulk dry goods section

Good news, we got a microscope camera! I can now make better ID guides for lab protocols, and that is very exciting

I agree, however most of the converts in my diocese are coming from evangelical denominations and going full rad trad, but bring their evangelical sensibilities with them. You can tell a cradle Catholic from a former protestant within 5 minutes of post-mass conversation

This news has me thinking that the online radtrad movement was a psyop to try and get American conservative Catholics to turn on Pope Francis. It worked.

Anyone have a recommendation on fungicides? I'm looking for one that will kill all fungi and another that will spare mycorrhiza but kill pathogens

The to-do list doesn't end but hey, at least my paper revision is done. I'll take wins where I can get them

If anyone wants clarification on this, read the homilies of St. Basil the Great. Tear down your barns, and if all you have is a loaf of bread then give a slice to someone without any food at all.

When my aunt had cancer the solution wasn't lifestyle reforms, it was to take the entire affected kidney out. ICE is a cancer, no one who is currently involved can stay in government because they will go back to their old ways no matter what reforms happen. Cut them out of society entirely.

All of the men dropped out of my biogeochemistry class, most of the women are still standing!

#WomeninSTEM

That's true. I do read journal articles at least once a week (for journal club) and read books for leisure, but I still need time to get back in the groove of reading >10 papers per day and getting good paragraphs down on the page

Can someone please throw a copy of "Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change" 4th edition by Schlesinger and Bernhardt through this man's window? Maybe tab chapter 5 so he knows where to look for the carbon cycle

Does anyone come back to writing after a period of lab/field work and feel like a complete dunce? It's like I have to build skills and endurance back up every time I come back to work on manuscripts

Does anyone on here have expertise relating to dark septate endophytes? If so, I have some questions about how to distinguish the hyaline hyphae from other types of endophytic fungi

Can any urban ecologists tell me about something exciting in the field relating to invasive species? I'm preparing a lecture about invasive spp. and want to have something new about urban systems (since our university is in the middle of a big city and the students can relate)

Evlogetaria for the Dead: Blessed are You, O Lord, Teach me your Statutes