Professor: Loses whole family in tragic accident, fights bear with pocket knife, amputates own leg, still gives lecture. Student: "I have a paper cut on my finger and will be bed-ridden for whole semester. Can I postpone exam for 5 years? Lets discuss medal of honor later."

I also have tears in my eyes 😂

So relatable 😅

no words #dotastro

"You have been here for X years, why don't you speak our language already?" Don't ask this to your immigrant colleagues. 😤 It is not your fault you don't understand how much harder their life is. But to have an idea, just take all your daily struggles and multiply by 10-fold.

One of my lab members just showed me compelling evidence that I suggested contradictory changes in different revisions of a text. No more struggling with impostor syndrome, I have now become a true group leader 😂

"Art in its purest form is resistance." ♥️

"Us versus Them" is the most dangerous concept that exists in humankind. Dehumanize the other side and you can justify anything. At the end of the day every war is just humans killing humans for territory.

Our European project Cell4Chem created a really cool video explaining how we engineer microbial communities for converting lignocellulose waste into target chemicals! 🦠 + 💻 = 🧪

Why only have equal contribution statements for authors that contributed the most? 🤔 Author 1, Author 2, Author 3(*), Author 4(*), Author 5 (*) These authors contributed equally to this work. Both barely looked at the paper.

Every time we try to model something and we ask the wet-lab people what's the medium composition... 😅

Reviewer #3

Being invited to peer-review for a journal after a desk rejection at the same journal: "So you're telling me you don't trust me when i say 'this paper' is good enough for your journal, but you trust me when i say 'that paper' is good enough for your journal?"

"The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers." Garrett Harden - The tragedy of the commons (1968)

Excellent opportunity for a PhD position in microbiome engineering at NTNU with my colleague David Weissbrodt 🙂 jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Decided to join the crowd that is migrating to the other side, you can find me at dan1elmachado.bsky.social 🦋

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