Don't flub your citations. That happened to someone I know o_O

Mendeley ftw

"Don't flub your citations" (bo_sox48 2015).

Ah, well, well begun is half done, as they say. :-)

Whose they?

People aren't allowed to own people, ssorenn. They are their own.

Say who?

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Formally abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865.

Way to properly cite the Constitution. You're well on your way to not flubbing your citations (bo_sox, 2015).

Oh noooooooo I flubbed the citation

Wait, the courts can convict someone and sentence them to slavery? Empty the prisons and sell the prisoners!

We have our budget fix! Why hasn't this been done yet? All we have to do is take the predominately black population in prisons and put them in fields. Surely the country can see the benefits! Life in prison? Pah. Give them life out of prison!

My mom and dad were both going through their dissertations/defenses at the same time back when I was eight. There was a serious lack of parenting for about six months, so good luck with the rest of the process, and congratulations.

@WD ... those are called gulags, not slave plantations.

Well done Valis. What is your research area?

Congrats!

Still confused though.. do you look at the ethical side of chemistry? How does the philosophy blend in?

Steephie, a PhD stands for Doctor of Philosophy. It is the generic Doctorate you get if you aren't getting an MD (Medicine) or JD (Law). It does not directly relate to philosophy. It is archaic terminology.

Aha! How did I not know that?

That question might be harder for abgemacht to answer.

@Steephie,

I study biological pattern formation and recognition, and decentralized decision making in bacterial communities. So for example, my main project is to shine different patterns of UV onto a petri dish of E. coli (small polka dots, large polka dots, a mixture of polka dots) and have the entire dish glow a certain color based on which pattern I sent. The trick is that the entire community have to figure out which pattern I sent, even though each individual cell only gets sent "yes I got hit with UV" or "no I didn't get hit with UV"

Congratulations, Valis. Presumably, since you are so clever, you'll be making the celebratory wine in your lab.

My labmates bought me some sparkling peach-flavored wine (think Arbor Mist or Barefoot). My wine choices are truly as unpretentious as they get IMHO.

Interesting subject. It could also be interesting to replicate in a computer science-y way, but that's probably not a revolutionary thought.

part of the interest of my project is that it was proposed as the chemical underlying mechanism for biological pattern formation, and it was proved mathematically and compute orally decades ago but no one's been able to actually prove its the real, biochemical underlying mechanism. Just that it would totally work and be awesome if that really was how biological pattern formation was formed

"I study biological pattern formation and recognition, and decentralized decision making in bacterial communities."

Also known as the Valis enigma.....

Congratulations!

Valis enigma, much better than the Valis opening.

Where's my +1. I could have said the Valis Strain.

I got your back buddy

Now that's what I'm talking about.