how's everyone been holding up under quarantine?

birmingham, al

yeah, when I went to interview they took us to a fucking massive distillery. I work in a brewery rn (we have some of the distillery's barrels :) and they had a couple dozen buildings the size of our entire cellar

lexington

can't avoid, didnt get accepted anywhere else.

hello friends
i am moving to a new state to mine coal / farm hemp (and/or go back to school)
does anyone have advice about living in the state? i am v unfamiliar w yankee culture and looking for apts but do not know the area
thank u very much
have a blessed day

all on a nikon optiphot 2. Its a neat scope, p sure its been modified bc its got topdown and passthrough lighting, which isnt standard for models w its stage/power setup. Similar ones were used for microchip work in the 80s/90s, and fluorescent ones are around (which i want) for molbio stuff. The neat thing about the series is theyve got a topdown camera mount over the slide. curr camera is super shit and washes out color p hard, but im not gonna buy a dslr for work.

the bacteria one is at 400x iirc, w the colored portion being contrast shadowed to convey some depth. the phase contrasted portion is lit top down, but the uncolored, non shaded area (outer portion) is lit by bottom up lighting so theres no sense of depth. Its v boring to look at but is what i use for 90% of my work

sorry, forgot to check back

here's a bunch of bacteria around a hyphae:

here's a comparison shot of some yeast inside water droplets. First is under episcopic brightfield, second under episcopic differential contrasting

thanks man, preciate it

hello
site dead?
thanks
(willing to join a team if necessary)

edit:
also do u guys wanna see my microphotography ive been looking at cilliates and shit

nah local twitter is less a thing than it was a few years ago
moat my irl friends use insta now unless they're politics nerds

that would be molecular genetics
you basically never work with telomeres for micro organisms

youre bad at the pretending to be smart thing

actual active doses of meth and and normal amphetamine are actually not that different of experiences (relatively sure I haven't done meth, so just going off what I've read). The biggest differences are in amount and route of ingesting. Smoking gives you a higher peak and addicts typically take something close to 100mg of IR equivalent at a time, both of which will get you addicted to regular amphetamine too. If you're regularly taking equivalent doses of meth/amphetamine, you're only slightly more likely to get more addicted to meth, since it is a bit more euphoric on the whole and makes it easier to form the response.

I take a lot of adderall, fwiw, and I know what you're talking about to some extent. I find it depends heavily on the sort of work you're doing, your motivation, etc etc. At work I mostly program, read articles, or write so its not a big deal if I hyperfocus for 4-8 hours, cause no one really interacts with me anyway. Days that I have to do stuff down on the production floor are rough, though. It gets better as you get more and more used to the actual ride, but its still pretty easy to lose yourself (I wrote a 3 page footnote on the history of the Darwinian individual yesterday :( )

u know this thread rocks cause the falsely attributed anti-semitic dogwhistle from a pedophile white supremacist isn't even the worst post

1. developing a stim habit just to finish high-school or w/e is dumb
2. it still requires you to actually start doing shit, otherwise you just clean your house

salts are great for productivity, but they dont really do much for actually starting a project ime. Theres not really a workaround other than building better organizing habits to get you to actually begin things. then snorting shit actually helps

reccing ^ Ciggs/ vapes / shit that you can do every couple hours to take breaks. if you get in the habit, it helps workflow a ton cause you dont burn out as quick and it's less miserable, so you dont end up psyching yrself out on starting the next thing

in theory. in my field, advisors can pretty much take you on whenever they want, especially if you're independently funded
my proposal was basically derived from my work, anyway, and the potential advisors whove seen it felt confident in my chances (as confident as can be at least), and I'm kinda half sure I'll be able to make two Applications b/c the rules are weird

did you submit anything? shit v nearly killed me, I spent prolly 20 hours a weekend on it this month

I finished my GRFP application, feel fairly confident & submitting tomorrow
if I get it, theres advisors at Harvard & GA tech who are kinda interested in my stuff (also one at MIT but he does open ocean so eh)

if I dont prolly just gonna stay at my brewery tho

Politics & Truth by Foucault, a history of the Rwandan genocide, a supplement/"how-to" of Derrida & Deconstruction currently

over the past 6 mos:
was into German idealism for a while, read most of Kant & Hegel, kinda lost interest after and switched to Marxist analysis & structuralism. I read Logic of Scientific Discover and some of Fisher's texts a few months ago and wanna start getting into more epistemology/scientific philosophy

outside of that, I read a decent amount of stuff for work/school. most is kinda boring to non-ecologists/evo-reseaarchers, but "Life in Moving Fluids" was something I read a few weeks ago that was both really approachable and still a strong introduction to fluid mechanics