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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's what the interns are for; that and snacks

[–] SkybreakerEngineer 90 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've heard some horror stories, but cannibalism is new

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahh... The ol' Lemmaroo. Ya clever bastard

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is... Is this ground zero?

Because hold my snacks, I'm already here.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Hello future people!

[–] ilikecoffee 5 points 1 year ago

I just made [email protected] :) Maybe we can restart the tradition again here on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then take all the credit for their findings for yourself ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Of COURSE! They're paid in "experience" not anything tangible!

[–] TropicalDingdong 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bruh the data analytics is the fun part.

Everything else gets you 🥵 and 😩

[–] slaughtermouse 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I too, get horny and tired during fieldwork.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Biologists have all the fun.

Who wouldn't get a little riled up finding a new beetle species for the third time in a week?

[–] ArianaGrande 4 points 1 year ago

Do they also masturbate on the clock?

[–] TropicalDingdong 7 points 1 year ago

It's called a safety 🛟 stand down 🍆 💦 bruh and it's in the protocol.

[–] TheBat 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bruh the data analytics is the fun part.

How often that constitutes of using VLookup in Excel?

[–] TropicalDingdong 5 points 1 year ago

:laughs in data.table:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who uses excel for data analysis??

Everyone I know use either R, or python if they're in comp sci.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, experiments in CS are not as cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why not? :3

Sure, I have a bias but.. I think we're doing plenty of cool stuff! Maybe not a 27-kilometre long particle accelerator level cool but...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can't just collect and analyse the data either, you have to write a kickass paper, design an appealing poster and present it like it's the best thing ever and the respective talk...oh yea and then you have to write tons of kickass proposals to get the funding to do more experiments to collect more data and analyse it and... :)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Analysis is the fun part!

[–] Agent641 5 points 1 year ago

Sick fuck!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

day ruined

[–] niktemadur 2 points 1 year ago

Ouch. Ouchies.
Like a thin, delicate needle, straight through the heart.