MeowZedong

Pour it in a proper waste container with a label and hand it over to EHS if in a lab. If not, do what another commenter said and let small amounts evaporate in a well-ventilated place.

Large volumes are something you should contact local waste disposal about. This usually isn't free, but sometimes they have certain times of year they'll take them for free. Large volumes are ~ >1L.

Our hoods have a solvent trap at the front in case of large spills, it's a stainless steel grate covering a large, high surface area secondary steel trap below. Ngl, I pour smaller amounts of pure volatiles in there to evaporate. Usually < 10 mL. Small volumes with dissolved solids get dumped in the glass waste container in the hood to evaporate before disposal too.

Not the best practice, but the pragmatic approach.

Larger volumes go to proper waste containers. Local EHS mostly just dilutes things before pouring it down the drain. Not much we can do about that, so I opt for greener solvents from the beginning wherever possible.

Sometimes everything is paid for by the research group, including salaries, and utilities and facilities management is also charged back to the group by the university. The way those funds are allocated varies by institution and some are stingy as fuck, running "like a business."

They usually don't know about institutional indirect costs and how they often run around 50% of the research funding in the US.

For those not in the know, that's an extra 50% that you need to add to the funds you apply for that will just go to the college to use for whatever they want. Research groups often don't see any of this invested back into their facilities and grad students often need to apply for their own external funding to make a high enough wage just to scrape by.

I agree, but also approach much of what is published with skepticism because there are many factors that can lead to results not being reproducible.

Not that there aren't issues with this idea, but I would like to see peer review change to include another independent lab having to reproduce your experiments as a means to verify the results. The methods you hand over to that lab are the ones that will be published, so if they can't reproduce your results, it stays in review.

TBF, fuck calculus. Only nerds like calculus.

My experiences have led me to believe the type of math someone is good at depends on their field (or what math they use regularly).

Some biologists are excellent statisticians, far better than me. I've also learned to never trust those same biologists with unit conversions that a chemist would consider incredibly simple.

OP, if you don't already know the cause and commonly have abnormally cold hands/fingers, you may want to look into getting checked for hypothyroidism. It's a common cause for this and there will be other signs.

On one hand: work long hours with little to no recognition, put up with the bullshit politics of academia, constantly worrying about job security due to grant-based funding, and all while struggling to make ends meet.

On the other hand: don't struggle to make ends meet, deal with a lot less bullshit, job security.

I'd ask you how you don't understand, but you thought someone else bringing up capitalism was unrelated, so it's obviously a sad waste of my expensive fucks-to-give to try to educate you. Misplaced priorities? Sounds more like you have no clue what you are talking about.

Hop in their lap, look up expectantly in a cute way, and take very good care of your hair so you are soft to pet. Once they start begging for your attention, act aloof and uninterested.

The bar cats did this to me recently and it worked. It was clear they were the masters of the bar.

Delete enough data points and it will be 1. You'll only have two data points, but you'll have bragging rights.

I'm loving all the orca lore! The more fish memes posted, the deeper this rabbit hole gets and the more likely that I wind up doing some weird shit with fish that I'll never be able to adequately explain to outsiders.