And yet, here we are, writing in English because it is the lingua franca.

You guys have never had to handle a 300GB tiff file from microscopy and it shows.

Does not matter. All these natural rubbers are very similar in how they work, you can find a paper on the polymerization in chicle here if you don’t believe me.

Yes really, still a polymer: it forms polyisoprene upon drying. You also find the stuff (synthesised from oil, yes, but chemically indistinguishable) in tires and condoms.

Also, chemically they are identical. Plastic made of a plant is still a plastic.

But no-one is hiring professors because they are good at peer reviewing. Spending time on research is simply a ‘better’ use of your time.

Counterpoint: https://danluu.com/su3su2u1/hpmor/

Probably, although there would still need to be some evolutionary pressure for forward facing eyes… I wonder what it is.

Please don’t! Or at least make it possible to change the app language instead of following the system if you do. Plenty of apps have faulty ‘translations’ that just make the app unusable. Especially because app text typically has no context, so you get these weird literal translations.

Enjoy finding a literal english translation that corresponds to something I may want to do in your app!

I feel like I should point out that this is an opinion piece by this dude, unlike the Hitler one above.

I don’t know if first authorship needs to go away. I’ve definitely been 2nd or 3rd author for a few days of work (as compared to months of work for the first author).

You can give detailed attribution (many papers require them nowadays), but no-one ever reads them.

Haha, DB also does this with foreign delays. I’ve been in a German train starting in Amsterdam that left 5 mins late - they mentioned it at every stop until Munich.

In the order of 40000 people, so pretty tiny compared to the big search engines.

This is how I started in a tiny room. I am not proud, but maybe good to show between all the shiny things here.

Unfortunately there are many counterexamples, large animals that live long in the wild tend to have shorter lives in zoos, like elephants, hippos, and monkeys.

Anyone have an recent example of FDC Willard being thanked in a paper? I couldn’t find any, sadly