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Look I know this is a scientific publication but you don’t understand— we need to include milk and cookies in the photo. We have to. Otherwise the science suffers

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Submitter comment: I'd like to submit this '[s]tudy of defensive behavior of a venomous snake as a new approach to understand snakebite' not for it's topic (worth studying!) but for it's insane methodology, which... well, I'll just let the researcher speak for himself:

[Q: Why did you decide to do this experiment?

A: Snake behavior has been generally neglected as a field of research, especially in Brazil. And most studies don’t examine what factors make them want to bite. If you study malaria, you can research the parasite that causes the disease—but if you don’t study the mosquito that carries it, you will never solve the problem. Up until now, the popular wisdom was that the jararaca would only attack if you touched it or stepped on it. But that was not what we found.

Q: Why did you need to be the victim?

A: The best way to do this research is to put snakes and a human together. In this case, the human was me. We put the snakes inside a ring on the floor of our lab until they got used to it, then I stepped in wearing special protective boots. I stepped close to the snake and also lightly on top of it. I didn’t put my whole weight on my foot, so I did not hurt the snakes. I tested 116 animals and stepped 30 times on every animal, totaling 40,480 steps.]

From the recent (aptly named) interview: Researcher steps on deadly vipers 40,000 times to better predict snakebites

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Science.

#lab work fail #scientists be like: this almost killed me..no I didn't reconsider working with it

wtf-scientific-papers

Submitter comment: I'd like to submit this '[s]tudy of defensive behavior of a venomous snake as a new approach to understand snakebite' not for it's topic (worth studying!) but for it's insane methodology, which... well, I'll just let the researcher speak for himself:

[Q: Why did you decide to do this experiment?

A: Snake behavior has been generally neglected as a field of research, especially in Brazil. And most studies don’t examine what factors make them want to bite. If you study malaria, you can research the parasite that causes the disease—but if you don’t study the mosquito that carries it, you will never solve the problem. Up until now, the popular wisdom was that the jararaca would only attack if you touched it or stepped on it. But that was not what we found.

Q: Why did you need to be the victim?

A: The best way to do this research is to put snakes and a human together. In this case, the human was me. We put the snakes inside a ring on the floor of our lab until they got used to it, then I stepped in wearing special protective boots. I stepped close to the snake and also lightly on top of it. I didn’t put my whole weight on my foot, so I did not hurt the snakes. I tested 116 animals and stepped 30 times on every animal, totaling 40,480 steps.]

From the recent (aptly named) interview: Researcher steps on deadly vipers 40,000 times to better predict snakebites

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Science.

hylianengineer

GRRR, instrument vendor is trying to talk circles around me to avoid giving me a hardware manual!

*politely angry emailing intensifies*

hylianengineer

Software testing is fun. I've just been instructed to log into the lab data management system tomorrow at the exact same time as everyone else in the building to see if we can break it.

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hylianengineer

Coworker, gesturing at the uranium decay chain poster: "This rules my life."

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Someone save me from waste classifications

hylianengineer

Had morning meeting at work today in the dark. Not for any particular reason other than we can. Our lab full of neurodivergent people with sensory issues is not beating the vampire allegations.

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I am wishing [instrument company] a very RESPOND TO MY EMAILS!

hylianengineer

I'm so stumped as to what's wrong with this instrument that I threatened it with a wrench. Just in case intimidation is the missing variable here.

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hylianengineer

Coworker: "Have you seen the movie Office Space?"

Me: "No."

CW: "They beat a printer with a baseball bat. We should Office Space the [glitchy instrument]."

Me: *laughing* "I would enjoy that."

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mhalachai

The best part of this:

“Should I risk my life?”

Then, Slavically, “Yeah, I will do it for you.”

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I hope she knows how much we all adore her

lemonsharks

Who is this woman I must tell her that she has restored my awe for physics at the (my) age of 35 years in the span of one 2 minute video

kadharonon

Her name is Tatiana Erukhimova, and she works for Texas A&M University.

hylianengineer

"Revvity wants your feedback!" I assure you, you do not. I gave it anyway and I was very honest. Sweet, sweet catharsis.

markscherz

I realised today that frog feet are kind of ideal for wearing heels and well then I accidentally

raccoonmilf

using R is like "haha i am a fucking wizard, I am the smartest person on the planet. look at me. Quantifying alcohol use in raccoons. I am peak brilliance" instantly to "I am going to do another 9/11"

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I just realized any journal I publish this in will probably want my formulas RIP

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foxbirdy

the thing about building my early career as both the trail&sawdog flavor of conservationist and the academia&research flavor of conservationist is that in both spaces I am a confounding variable to my peers. in trails they're like man what do you mean you were working in a lab and doing eDNA sampling last season. what are you doing here. and then in academic research they're like wait so you missed last semester to huff wildfire smoke and carry a chainsaw up a mountain? are you Daft? In The Head?

foxbirdy

the worst thing I ever did for myself was impressing the professors and other students in my department with this R script I made to fix this fucked coral health dataset bc now they think I'm the R wizard and come ask me for help with their R tragedies

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