Hi guys, I'm looking for research assistantship positions in the UK. Here are my credentials:

1. B.Sc and in Animal Biology 2016-19 (assisted projects and gained experience in transgenic drosophila and mice, cell culture, karyotyping, ELISA, Western blotting.

2. 1st internship in 2018: worked on mutational analysis of Parkinson's disease (PCR, DNA extraction, next gen sequencing, gel electrophoresis, nanodrop)

3. 2nd internship, 2019: immunohistochemistry, transgenic mice, gas chromatography

4. M.Sc Animal Biology, 2019-21 (techniques: immunostaining, western blotting, cell culture, flow cytometry)

5. 5 Virtual internships throughout pandemic lockdown 2020-21 (data analysis, participant recruitment, data analysis, systematic literature review)

6. M.Phil Chemistry Dec 2021- April 2024(analytical techniques like liquid chromatography- mass spectrometry, but majority of project was based on biomarker validation of COVID 19 using statistical and chemometric tools)

Is there a chance I'll get through for RA positions that are listed in non-Ph.D. category, i.e. not PDRA. I've come across a number of positions where the required qualifications are a bachelor's degree but a master's degree would be desirable. I'm just finishing my m.phil from a university in the UK, but I am an international student. What do you think my chances are?

While I'm not interested in doing science and a phD solely for the money(obviously), I do think about the monetary side of it sometimes. Doctors make a lot after 10 years of school, scientists also undergo a similar duration of attending school. Wouldn't hurt to know how to be rich...

Hi, I'm doing a project for school and was looking for women in STEM jobs/subjects to fill in a survey on misogyny and sexual harassment in their jobs/school.

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hello I am achieving my bachelors in medical laboratory sciences, and then will be a medical laboratory scientist. I am happy with that, but I also am curious if there is more I can do with it. Like add to it, go to school to for lack of better words make it better and achieve a higher job title, or higher paying job, also even insight on the best specialties or certificates to get or do. Thank you.

I have invested a chunk of my life in perfecting my skills in art just because my parents said that it would make me happy when I'll be stuck in a job. Now I don't know if I should continue painting or pick up a science-y hobby.

Any help/comments?

I was an all-rounder in school and a high achiever. Biology was a subject that really interested me and I wanted to do something different and chose not to go to medical school or even take medical school entrances( The country I belong to, kids are highly pressurised to become a doctor or an engineer). While I did get into a reputed college for my bachelor's in biology, I spent a lot of time in college societies. When I had to sit for entrances for Master's I did not get a good university but went ahead with it as I got a course of my interest i.e. Human genetics. It has been 4 months since I'm done with my master's and I'm clueless about my future. I see people saying that a phD is only necessary or valuable if I get it from one of the top 25 universities for which I'll have to move abroad. I feel completely lost and I am even questioning whether I should stick to my dream of becoming a scientist or have a change of plans and get some other job in science. What do I do? Is there anyone else out here who felt lost after getting a master's?

Hello, I'm not sure where to post this so I'll try it here.

This is a psychological study about creation of intimacy. Can anyone tell me what the use of number 31 is? Seems like 28 is making it useless

Assuming that someone also does bench work too.

Thank you!

Can we all just say thank you to whoever invented these things? They are literally why I get to go home ever, for all the time they save.

Just need to vent a little.

Just started talking to a new guy, and he's excited about me (I think) but it's clear my PhD is a big deal in his mind; keeps making jokes about him not being as smart, that he's thinking of me in a lab coat and heels, etc.

I feel a little fetishized. But I also know that this has been a big deal for every guy I've dated since graduation to deal with, and it's sooo exhausting and tiresome.

I recently defended my PhD in soil chemistry/fertility. I need your wit! Any ideas?

Some ideas: Marie Fury, Acid Betty, Dr. Smash,

Hi, I'm currently looking for a term for a certain principle (actually two principles). It is the one that is most famously described by the pythagorean cup (or greedy cup) which will when filled to a certain level will completely empty itself whereas a regular cup would just spill the surplus liquid.

I am aware that this principle can be observed in many fields and now I want to put a label on it. So how do you call an environment where when you reach a certain threshold, all previous progress gets lost (e.g. filling a balloon vs. filling a bowl)?

Going to my first ever academic conference soon as a graduate student. I'd appreciate any tips on what to do, what to wear, and how to make the most out of the experience :)

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In plenty series, movies and cartoons, we've seen that when something or someone is frozen, they shatter like glass. But in reality if you freeze a piece of steak or chicken or some other type of meat and you hit it with a hammer, it will barely break the upper layers of it. Even an actual glass or ice statue can't shatter like that, because they're too thick.

If theoretically, someone had the superpower to slow down the molecules of someone/something, to the point the molecules appear completely motionless, would it be possible to shatter them or an object, like glass? This is the case where every molecule is barely vibrating. Wouldn't they lose energy and break the bonds between them and be easier to shatter (even the strongest metal in the world)?

For context, I'm a 17 year old senior in high school. I love science, biology, chemistry and I'm passionate about genetics. All I dream of doing is working in a lab, doing research and maybe discovering something important one day, or just spend my life wandering through the wonderful world of science, I'd be happy even with that. But there's a catch, in my country there are no universities that specialize in genetics and I can't afford to go abroad. There are a few that specialize in biology, chemistry or biochemistry but they don't have the best reputation.. Most you can get out of them career wise is highschool teacher or minimum wage biologist in a testing lab. And then there's med school, where it's said you'll study seriously and your studies will be recognized in foreign countries. I don't hate the idea of going to med school, in fact I'm pretty excited to learn everything about the human body and to get some experience with people and learn to emphasize with them, but I'm not going to lie to myself, I don't want to be a doctor. My one and only dream is to be a researcher, a scientist who works in a lab, finding new ways to treat diseases or new links between species, all by using genetics. So I think med school will be a good learning experience for me but I don't want to continue on that career path. I want med school to be a stepping stone towards me becoming a well educated scientist.

To get to the point, my question is, will I still be able to be a scientist after going to med school and maybe do a master's and a PhD, or some special courses or will no laboratory ever hire me because of my lack of experience with research? Do I still need to do my residency if I don't want to practice? Should I practice and do research at the same time? (and yes, there is a choice to do a residency in genetics, otherwise I wouldn't have chosen med school) I whole heartedly hope that my dreams will one day come true and I'll work for them no matter what but I fear that I'm not taking the right way to reach them. I wanted to do things the right way and go directly to a genetics focused university abroad but my family won't have it, due to financial reasons. So now I kinda have no choice but to go to med school and I'm so scared that I'm going to waste 6 years or my life on something I don't want to do.

If you have any advice, experience with this or even kind words, please don't hesitate to leave them in the comments, I'm kinda desperate.