Comment on Anti-acknowlegements

ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I read that as the subtext still being sexist because Biology tends to have more women in the field compared to Physics.

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  • Nikelui@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nah, it’s classic university faction wars. Engineers say crap about architects, mathematicians sneer on physicists and so on…

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Engineers say crap about architects

      As an engineer, this shit is so cringe… There is a youtube gaming channel with an alleged engineer who plays video games (often related to physics or building things), and his entire fucking personality is formed around mocking architects for being “stupid.” He literally substitutes in the word “architect” instead of calling someone stupid. He say’s “they’re an architect.”

      Grow the fuck up goddamn.

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      • Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’m a heavy equipment mechanic, and every day in the shop I hear other guys complaining about how an engineer fucked up a design on a piece of equipment and that’s why it failed. Or that the engineer made it hard to work on on purpose. So cringe. I just roll my eyes at them and tell them if they are so smart then why aren’t they the ones designing the equipment lol

        Its sad that all the fields feel the need to shit 9n each other. We as a society would got a lot further if we could all get along 😁

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    • mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      How people can walk out of a university with degrees and not understand how all areas of knowledge contribute towards each other and link together in ways that are not immediately obvious astounds me.

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      • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        because of a long established undercurrent of competition within departments (and even between professors) for recognition and advancement. That and there are some people that have very large but very fragile egos that can’t allow another person or discipline to grab more sunlight than them.

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    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I heard a joke once that a physical chemistry experiment will have 1000 data points per trend line; I organic chemistry will have 10 data points, and biochem will have 2 data points.

      I bet to biochemists it’s very insulting. Back to the comment in the anti-acknowledgements, that was insulting without even being funny.

      I like the ones that are symmetrical, like math thinks that physics is easy, and physics things that math is too unreal (I don’t remember the jokes)

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      • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        a physical chemistry experiment will have 1000 data points per trend line; I organic chemistry will have 10 data points, and biochem will have 2 data points.

        There is an element of truth in this, but that one biochem datapoint probably took more money and (wo)manpower than a hundred phys chem datapoints. Which is sad, because biological systems are usually more complex, and therefore more ‘noisy’, needing more datapoints for a definitive result. Medical studies get a lot of datapoints for obvious reasons, and because they can afford to do it thanks to Merck et al.

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• AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My mom is a biologist and complains how physicists always come into biology, try to reinvent everything without looking at any prior work, and then fail to execute their (sometimes interesting, sometimes not) method

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• GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t really understand how that one was a problem if they’re also a physicist, or even if they’re a biologist. Nothing wrong with some fun rivalry.

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s always rivalry between physicist and biologists. Or chemists and biologists. Or biologists and biologists. Damn biologists, they ruined biology!

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  • toddestan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    When I was at college us physicists would joke about the biologists and the chemists and the mathematicians and the engineers, and in turn they’d joke about us, and we’d all have a good laugh over it.

    I suppose it would come down to the context and how it was said.

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