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• Contramuffin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Here’s a fun game: describe your research/interest in a similar way that Fox/Republicans use to describe research. The more misleading it is from the actual research, the better.

  I’ll start: watch how tired mice get when they get sick

  (determine the mechanism of how microbial contact affects host circadian rhythms)

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  • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Even that wasn’t quite clickbaity and broken enough.

    I studied whether we could operate dump trucks on mars.
    (Super hydraulic fluid based rover systems)

    My friend made moss in jars for air conditioning.
    (Super endothermic moss for cooling, oxygen and protein development in space)

    You gave mice the flu and asked them to sleep.

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I study how fast pollutants leaking into the ground are degraded by natural processes involving microorganisms, and whether it would be possible to protect groundwater sources from pollution by introducing the right microorganisms in the right place after a spill.

    I honestly don’t know how to phrase that so it sounds useless.

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    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You watch trash water drain into dirt

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    • TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Researchers spend $X to find out if poison kills microbes.

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    • Eranziel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ll take a stab at it.

      “Researchers spend $X to see whether poison leaking into the ground gets into our water.”

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    • Hacksaw@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Researchers spend $X trying to poison groundwater, thankfully foiled by bacteria.

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh that’s easy. You’re the one turning Frogs gay.

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  • atomicorange@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I charged the government billions of dollars for a camera that takes hours to take one photo.

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    • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      JWST?

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  • sunoc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is Skynet upon us? Communist robots now get to think faster with new brain!

    I’m researching heterogeneous cores embedded systems for robotics running open source software. ><

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  • papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My company costs the government billions each year for weapons that haven’t been used in nearly 80 years. Talk about inefficiency!

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    • Clasm@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Like all god-fearing men, they are afraid of invisible powers that actually work!

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  • CM400@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You seriously (I’m dead serious) need to pitch this as a game show to Netflix.

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    • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Already recorded and cancelled.

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  • DeltaSMC@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Always nice to see a fellow circadian researcher in the wild. Be curious, be critical, and most of all, bmal!

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• lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Republicans and intellectual dishonesty

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• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why aren’t they televising it? They could fund the entire university

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah this is fucking awesome, regardless of impact.

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    • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The trick is to keep recording until just before that point

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• TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That seems to be so common of a theme in theirs… Testing narcotics on animals to make predictions of how they impact humans is constantly being used as a chilling and watching animals take drugs". The idea that there’s solutions to drug use that might be more effective than throw drug users into private prisons to do slave labor seems quite lost on these people.

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  • Adalast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Let’s be accurate here, private slavery companies.

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m guessing that rightwingers prefer this study.to be done on teenagers directly, making a steroid pumped teenager nightclub camp

  Hey, research is research

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  • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why not
    they don’t give a shit about kids, after they’re born that is

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• SkyNTP@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Unchecked misinformation and algorithmic control of people’s eyes and brains will be the collapse of civilization before climate change does us in.

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• Facebones@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I look forward to watching the federal govt give 5mil to newly formed X Research to determine if Christianity should be taught in school as the one true religion.

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• ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  stuff like this I actually don’t mind.

  Someone had to look at these research papers - assuredly more than one - about (in this case) the effects of steroid abuse in teens. They had to understand the gist of that research. Then they had to create a pithy one liner that conveys that gist, albeit arguably dishonestly.

  That’s way better than “windmills cause cancer” or “migrants are eating pets.”

  I’m all for the trend of badly summarizing important clinical research, because we can correct that. At least we have a better chance of correcting that than pure lies.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Rand Paul is just mad if scientists keep investigating someone is going to realize the only thing going on in his head is two hampsters boxing.

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• EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I honestly read this and saw no problem

  Like that seems important enough to research lol

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