Lizards in space math

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• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  wait if it’s about eDNA? why were they swabbing salamander’s cheeks?

  it’s environmental DNA.

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  • silasmariner@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Maybe you’re trying to match individuals to dissemination, idk man neither of us were there

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  • Dhar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “How much DNA do salamanders absorb from the environment, and how much of that gets incorporated into their DNA?” I would assume.

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      WHAT?

      eDNA is the idea of taking a environmental sample like water or air, and finding traces of DNA and figuring out what creatures live in the area. you wouldn’t take a sample from an animal mouth to check for eDNA.

      you could tell what salamanders live in a pond by getting eDNA from the water, but no real point in checking the DNA in the salamander mouth.

      maybe to double check results for testing.

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• __nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

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• Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is what it’s like being a psych nurse talking to an ICU nurse. It’s the difference between

  You put what WHERE???

  and

  The patient put what WHERE???

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• owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My wife and many of her friends are in medical fields, while myself and several of their spouses are in technical fields. We’ve had almost exactly the same exchanges.

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Even in medicine, there are big blind spots between specialties. My radiologist who did my wife’s sonogram was like “yeah I got into this because I fucking hate needles. If I wanted to go into nursing I’d need to use them a lot. So here I am, doing all of the non-invasive stuff instead.”

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  • CodingCarpenter@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Same with me and my wife except she’s in civil design

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• PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I love the exchange, but the backdrop of capitalism demanding results is grim.

  I just want everyone to enjoy exploring and sharing without worrying about grants…

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  • gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Eh, until we’re truly a post scarcity society (if such a thing is even possible) scientist would have to justify use of resources no matter what the system we use.

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    • silasmariner@programming.dev ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Stop bringing your practical realism into my dreamworld moral absolutism

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  • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You use resources you have to justify them. Maybe to a voluntary committee. Maybe to a Soviet. Maybe to the supreme leaders appointee.

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• TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I help elderly with their technology. A coworker does outreach for community events. We would both rather choke on a revolver than do the others job.

  This is my dunderhead comparison. Look mom I’m like the science people in the meme

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• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What the frog is eDNA?

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  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    How Edna writes her name when she forgets she has caps lock on.

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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Environmental DNA, apparently.

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    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ah, like when you monitor sewage for diseases.

      Searching for it I mainly got Dame Edna Average and while she looks a bit like a salamander that didn’t seem right.

      I was immediately thinking about all the different prefixes for RNA and eDNA did not make any sense. Maybe “expressed DNA” but that’s just the transcriptome and that also RNA again.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I only recently heard this for the first time too, when i watched this video about deep sea eDNA www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i95R3tgJIs

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• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  ❤️

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• tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  measuring cell stress (literally how much you can deform a cell) is a bit of a hot crossover field in Physics and Biology atm

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  • ultrafastsloth@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I worked on that a bit! Never realized it had such a crossover potential. Also considering how physicists cant stand biologists and probably vice versa.

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Also considering how physicists cant stand biologists and probably vice versa.

      only if you’re immature

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