I admit, I am not a lab rat. I just had to look capsid up. I thought it was a lab thing that looked like food, but it's a food arrangement that looks like a capsid!

According to OP, this is an air fryer.

Mmmm! They're delicious steamed, but I prefer them fried and crispy.

anyone who wants go apply for something on usa.gov. anything really and you can cancel at the very end. near the end of the application process are four questions and one says something like this. so for every federal government job.

all i can think about is how that would be completely worthless whenever the server goes down

True, but as a lab rat she should understand sample size including the time it takes her to run a sample...

She might just be saying that it takes a long time to run 1 sample, and it doesn’t feel like much got done by the end of the day.

She might just be saying that it takes a long time to run 1 sample, and it doesn’t feel like much got done by the end of the day.

There is an important fact your missing. Tests that are not correlated to anything is still useful data. Like say you're studying a person's concentration ability, you find their calcium levels in their blood has no effect on their concentration that's still useful data. Not as flashy as a new medicine that does improve it but it's still useful so you can elimate the need for more research in that direction.

Academia is now effectively just like anything else. In the US at least, it's mostly tied to grant money and how many students will get into seats (=tuition income, department income).

The idea that it's a meritocracy is pretty dangerous in 2026. More than ever, it's about who you know. Nepotism abounds.

Where/wear PPE?

Science. Technology. Engineering. Math. Long ago the four disciplines lived in harmony. Then everything changed when the PhDs attacked.

The best defense is a good offense.

"I'll just leave these on your desks for you to peruse as I prepare my presentation."

I mean I could imagine coming in with a novel, comprehensive debunk of a major paper from every single committee member and therefore advancing the field and establishing dominance could get you some brownie points.

doesn't the D in PhD stand for defenders tho?

Party hard, Defenders..

Its useful for international business and apparently science given that everything is made in China.

But also when rent is 1500, that's 100 hours per month just to not be homeless. A chinese teenager working at a fast food place makes a measily 3USD/hr, but his rent is 150, so he spends half as much time to not be homeless. Same applies to food and transport.

its just the americans tend to be cheapskates and would rather hire a few "x-years of experience" rather than the one that needs it the most entry and junior level to train them up., it saves them money,. im pretty you kinda experienced that already. tech is heading this way in the near future(biotech is already there with them mostly rejecting candidates". american ones are going to face a dwindling talent pool once the "experience one ages out/retire". plus many of them prefer visa holders over actual americans. ive done the same job search you did and its likely resulted in what im talking about. that is why some area of biotech is kept artificially shortaged , they cant have junior/fresh grads competing with skeleton crewed scientists.

plus(i think the bio job statistics are heavily skewed towards nursing, likely biotech has a much higher unemployment rate than 3.5)

See the min wage in my state is 15 usd a hour, so I see no need to learn chinese

Hangzhou is really nice to visit…I have friends living there that think it's a little boring, but different strokes and all that. Overall I'd say go for it! You aren't even that far from Shanghai, it's possible to live in Shanghai and commute to Hangzhou by subway/train in like < 1 hour, so if you find you don't like living in HZ, you could move to SH (if you don't mind the commute).

Learning chinese in 2026 couldn't hurt. I've never been to that province, but I can see gor 3-9USD, you can take a 30-90 minute train to/from Shanghai.

I think it is different in the transparency of its opacity, the US keeps its opacity opaque.