It’s not just companies. We see this a lot in science. You get trained in being a good scientist, but nobody teaches you how to hire employees, manage them, help them grow, and motivate them. So when you’re running your own lab, you’re kind of on your own. In theory the buisness people should be learning techniques of…

I would argue that religious people of all stripes have spent thousands of years making life miserable or killing people who did not agree with their particular version of the magic man/men in the sky. Religious people continue to actively try to impose their views on people who don’t share them. Because of this I…

My lab is about evenly split between windows, linux, and apple machines. The people in the lab who manage the linux ones know what they’re doing and those computers are lovely at doing shared lab tasks (image processing, some data analysis). Our research IS division definitely seems to struggle with supporting the…

Where are the Auschwitz tree ornaments? 

Someone should just tell him French fries actually come from France and those tariffs will be lifted faster than you can say “quid pro quo”

They tried to upsell me once on getting a more powerful car for the drive into the mountains. I didn’t do it because I’m a spiteful asshole, and regretted it the entire drive. But anyways, that was like a 1 hour long rental experience for something that I had already arranged online

Yea except a really good nanny is actually harder to find than sex. Never mind being discovered, you lose the nanny and you’re fucked (and not in a good way)

This was all just part of viral marketing for Donnie Darko 2

She’s just still mad from that time her black “friends” didn’t want to come to her plantation wedding.

That’s a small price to pay for being able to tell all the people in line at Starbucks that you need your coffee because you were up at 5AM doing your Peloton workout. Smugness doesn’t come cheap

Good thing for Stephen Miller that he had enough foresight to buy for both his personal and work Christmas trees, plus have enough left over for the office White Elephant party. Hope he stocked up on the confederate flag wrapping paper!

If a white woman’s story is not being told, everyone’s lives are just that much worse for it

There was that poor PhD student at Yale who had the cops called on her for taking a nap in her dorm. Academics talk a good game, but their implicit (and explicit) racism game is strong

Can’t wait until these idiots start marketing all natural chemo for anal melanoma

In high school I did a summer program in a laboratory at a local hospital. The other high school student in the lab was an African American woman who was far smarter and motivated than I will ever be. I had a 10 minute walk to the lab from my house and she had to take the train for over an hour to get there. I thought…

The newsworthy part is that he didn’t insist on having the black person be the one getting moved. White people willing to be mildly inconvenienced to avoid sitting next to black people!

I have had several hours of training on how to appropriately code my visits for billing (including feedback on my actual clinic notes and bills), and still have no idea what I’m doing. It’s incredibly complex, and you can easily spend more time thinking about how to bill properly than you actually spend thinking about…

It stands for methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase, that’s the actual name of the gene!

The problem is not accuracy (although without FDA certification, we can’t even be sure of that). The problem is that the results they give are based on association studies of variable quality. There are some genetic mutations that are “actionable”, like BRCA gene mutations in cancer. That testing can determine major…

The data for that test are of poor quality and very mixed results. Here’s a summary about how just knowing drug pharmacology can give you the same insights (sorry don’t have access to full text here)