I wanna talk about my thesis work on here so bad sometimes but I know that if I did that my real name could be easily found once my shit gets published and that’s not something that can ever be allowed to happen. I’m afraid to even say what animal I’m working with because even that feels too specific.
if you read in a frog paper “specimen was released in the field immediately after capture” chances are very good that what it actually means is
“i dropped the damn frog and despite the fact that we fell all over each other no one could recapture it”
sometimes when i am sad i go read through the tags on this post, because they are 70% other biologists saying things like “AND ALSO FUCK FIELD MICE” and “THAT CRAB ALMOST BROKE MY FINGER” and I am reassured that I am not the only one who has bobbled a wood frog right into their cleavage.
plus six or seven people who just….can’t figure out what a frog paper could possibly be. (guys it’s…a scientific paper. about frogs.)
and this one
which made me laugh despairingly because i mean
bro you don’t even know.
what is the code entomologists use for “i stepped on it, i’m so sorry, it was dark out and the specimen was very small”
“Impromptu dissection was performed under less-than-optimal lighting conditions.”
‘impromptu dissection’ is an alarming phrase in any context and i thank you for it
Right now, I don’t think I know anybody who wouldn’t quit if this passed. Schools would lose their TAs and RAs en mass.
I don’t get waived tuition here and tuition for grad students isn’t much where I am (compared to undergrad) but what the shit is this? Who is this helping? Like, long-term, considering impacts on the country as a whole, who is this helping?
PiraticOctopus 