Wendy Carlos - synth and electronic music pioneer who helped shape the development of the Moog synthesizer, and the first trans woman to win a Grammy for her work on “Switched-On Bach”.
Fine for screening clones, not so good when your experiment depend on purity of plasmid.
If you want to try to out-cheap me on labware, I spent my PhD dumpster diving for single-use drosophila vials and scrubbing them out by hand for reuse. May the science gods help you if you run a screen.
If you logged off social media once this week and did one thing just because it brings you joy, you’re richer than Elon Musk.
UBC is at least in the top five world wide for views from a campus.
But this also reminds me a bit too much of bleary eyed wanders on campus while waiting for my E. coli to recover after transformation at the end of a twelve hour day.
THE ODYSSEY (2026, dir. Christopher Nolan)
Working on a grant proposal. Just replaced every occurrence of "cis-SNARE" with "c-SNARE," "trans-SNARE" with "x-SNARE," "cis-Golgi" with "early Golgi," and "trans-Golgi" with "late Golgi," because this is #TheStupidestTimeline and we are governed by idiot arsonists.