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A space for scientists, researchers, and lab workers to share experiment fails, lab wins, and PI woes. Do you need advice, a place to vent, or just some lab-life humor? Want to share your big successes, your awesome protocols, and tricks of the trade? Join your fellow labrats.

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Greetings all! Already, some people have expressed distaste at the use of AI-art in the profile picture of the comm -- great start to my role as mod, I'm sure.

I have deep beliefs about running communities democratically (when I'm not pushing my own agenda), so I thought I'd set up a vote. And yes, if you vote for LabyMcLab Face, that's what we'll go with -- though, if I keep up on running this community there will be another vote eventually and something else can be picked.

This post is not for the vote, but rather a call for Profile and Banner Submissions. Please nominate images in the comments here.

I will exert a very small amount of influence by asserting that the image must be safe for work, and I will make the default rank of any image unrelated to science below and excluded from the lottery option in the vote (we'll talk more about how voting works on the voting post). My first day as mod and I'm already exercising executive privileges. What would my mother think...

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Projects must -- quote -- "demonstrably advance the president's policy priorities." And, in a major change, political appointees, not necessarily subject matter experts, would be required to give the final OK before money is awarded.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/new-proposal-would-give-trump-officials-more-control-over-scientific-research-grants

Also see this page on comment formatting requirements.

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Just got out of an initial interview with a Chinese lab. I was nervous at even the thought of moving that far, but they showed more interest in hiring me than any American lab (probably because Americans have no money for science). I'm setting up a time to present my research to them.

It's been really hard to find work, so while I'm nervous at the prospect of going somewhere so (supposedly) different, I hope this goes well.

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Niko McCarty explains how seemingly simple ideas, like PCR, have a lot of technical nuance. This article explains a lot of history and advancements of PCR.

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