It’s funny, I had a similar experience but with a midwife and also have some “what if”/regrets about how things went. The midwife let me push for three hours before we went for the c section (that last hour was sooooo painful) and unfortunately that led to some damage to my pelvic muscles due to baby being stuck.…

I was also at IKEA on my due date. And my water broke there!

My guess would be to the fewer reference genomes available? Although I know they’re putting funds and efforts to sample more widely now.

Yeap, I was told it was based on experiences at Carlmont High School but not sure how accurate. Side fact: they filmed parts of that movie at my high school (San Mateo High).

I’ve noticed in industry the popping up of Associate Scientist positions, which is more senior than research associate but doesn’t require a PhD. Are you seeing those in your area? Seems the right fit!

I’ve never seen No Cal (lived here 20+ years) and if I heard you say it, would’ve assumed you were saying NorCal with a very soft R.

Adding to the stories of ex-tenant’s mail. I got official looking mail from time to time for a previous dude. Even went to the trouble of looking him up and offering to send it to him (he declined). After some Important Looking Shit started showing up at our place, tried to track him down again and found out he was…

Thank you so much for sharing. It’s emotional, real, and so important that we know what people are going through so that we have these narratives for our trials if need be, and we have some freaking empathy to not make a difficult situation even worse.

I have mutual friends with the dudes so ill for sure buy them mozzarella sticks and beers from Suck It, Trebek when/if I run into them!

High five from a fellow immunologist!

Agreed, they really did an amazing job showing how badly it can go.

I know!! It’s amazing/great that the cops who finally figured it out were like, “Huh, this rape victim isn’t acting like I would expect. BUT WHO CARES? My job is to find the asshole and jail him.”

That totally makes me think of the recent This American Life story about how this one teen’s rape investigation was completely botched because her foster mom thought she was an attention seeker. God, that episode was so rage inducing, and I just wanted to strangle that foster mom as she just kept on victim blaming.

That’s a shame, sorry that people you know have such a close minded view of what is American.

When we started to try to get pregnant, I was a little blown away at how small the window is.

Yes, so much this. Even growing up in a place with a significant Asian American community, I didn’t feel the need to have that be my primary identity.

I think the data is preliminary cause they’re not sure of the mechanism yet. But according to the WHO, it’s mostly linked to the first trimester.

Dormancy is not a feature of all viruses. Only certain types can do that, and Zika virus is not the type that has that ability.

Her backstory:

This was my plan and then my Swedish husband fell in love with America. Boo!