Ruth Hook
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immunology & stem cell biology- tissue culture in startups and basic research 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇫🇮 citizen- reading, running, climbing, paleontology, folk harp etc
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has there ever been a problem in science where the solution hasn't been "it's far more nuanced, complex, & context dependent than we thought"
just once it would be nice for overwhelming complexity to suddenly simplify itself with additional understanding from a new discovery
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I know renting is essentially setting money on fire but every time I hang out with a friend who recently bought a house it reminds me that home ownership is really the modern form of adam & eve eating from the tree of knowledge and falling from grace
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it's a well-kept secret but the actual reason people get married & make fewer friends in their late 20s and early 30s because a decade of adulthood is the point where the overall narrative gets too convoluted to explain to new people
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what are examples of eerie unexpected heritability in your life if you're privileged enough to have a good relationship with your family
mine was finding out my dad and I ate the exact same thing during undergrad all nighters without ever discussing it & they're v odd choices
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also if you ever need a paper behind a paywall that's not on scihub- dm me- I have journal access, a family of NAS professors who raised me to hate elsevier, & a friend circle of researchers who all support open science- am more than happy to be captain hook the science pirate
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did y'all know NASA was legitimately worried that the moon wasn't going to have a hard surface to land on and decided to just go for it due to the similarities between observed topography and the valles caldera
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are c-sections unnatural or is it actually really cool that our species came up with a solution for our big heads using our big heads
(can already feel the maternal microbiome ppl coming for me w/pitchforks)
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not to be cliché, but does anyone have any advice for your 30s
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we are no longer making fun of how buyable/cheap Forbes 30u30 is after finding out it's mainly for o1 visas
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ever since I learned sharks are older than the north star, I've been trying to figure out exactly when in earth's history the north star appeared in our sky with no avail just to see if it coincided with anything cool in evolution
this is 300% not scientific, I just want to know
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"We have learned that many things are lost if one looks at averages, but are revealed when one studies single events"
A lot of Bayes-obsessed ppl I know would be angered by this but it's from a biologist who successfully cured his own daughters rare cancer in a relative rush
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I do not for a second expect that that is actually all that heritable I just want people's creepy coincidence stories
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how wild is it that so much of our biochemistry fluctuates with the seasons which we only have due to a giant rock slamming into us billions of years ago to create the moon
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I still can't believe we don't teach biology primarily as history- like my brain kind of broke when I realized HMGB1 is something we have from when we were archaea
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one time I took 25mgs of zinc for a month just to prove to my GP that iron and zinc do in fact share the exact same absorption & storage pathways and it's kind of insane to see all the anti-iron rhetoric right now in the public without mention of this
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