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everyone going on this study abroad trip is so painfully unfunny I dont think I can do this for a month

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#the affliction

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Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.  Every year, researchers try to predict the four influenza strains that are most likely to be prevalent during the upcoming flu season. And every year, people line up to get their updated vaccine, hoping the researchers formulated the shot correctly. The same is true of COVID vaccines, which have been reformulated to target sub-variants of the most prevalent strains circulating in the U.S. This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots, because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a virus. The vaccine, how it works, and a demonstration of its efficacy in mice is described in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  “What I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,” said UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai. “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”

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#thank youuuuuuu #study finds that humans may be cheesed to meet you :3

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#showcase

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one corner of my room is for autumn/winter, another is for spring/summer

you could call it iranian dark academia vs iranian cottagecore

i'll be adding more prints to my etsy shop soon

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i hate this grad student sooo muchhh he looks like he was breastfed until he was 11 and no matter what your question is or what class it's for he will treat you like an idiot and then confidently give you the wrong answer. Last semester I asked him for help deriving the maxwell-boltzmann distribution and he told me that "v stands for velocity, which is how fast it's going." Today I asked him how to derive the allowable momenta from a certain wave function and he started explaining to me that energy levels and momenta are quantized. No fucking shit. "So first you need to solve this equation--" which equation? the one i solved already? in two seconds? in front of you? And then he just wrote the wrong answer on the board.

And i KNOW it's not just me because two people in the quantum programming lab period HE TEACHES asked him the same question. He gave the male student a straightforward answer, but for some fucking reason he assumed that the female student who had just gotten off her shift at nasa that afternoon did not know what a string was.

#sexism #stem #university #lab #academia #undergraduate

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its all gonna look like this soon its all gonna look like this from now on

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hey here's a website for downloading any video or image from any website.

works w/ youtube, soundcloud, twitch, twitter (gifs and videos), tumblr (video and audio), and most other websites you're probably lookin to download stuff off of.

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update I am now not only double majoring but I am also minoring in mathematics

my academic advisor said it "isn't worth it" to double major in phys & astro instead of just astro and I'm starting to think he might be full of shit

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#reblog if you’re not finishing a task rn #the affliction

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Reblog if youre any active studyblr in 2024

Reblog so i can find my people!!

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why does getting high make me want to code so bad

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i have to remind myself that just because i don't have an obvious friend to ask to hang out with in this moment doesnt mean i have no friends at all

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If you have to use anything other than sears & zemansky as your physics textbook…. god rest your soul

#academia #university #astronomy #undergraduate #physics #college #studyblr

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“i can’t do this anymore” says a girl who is not only going to do it but do it well

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i am addicted to checking for d2l notifications i sit there and refresh the page like an old man at a slot machine

#academia #university #astronomy #physics #undergraduate #studyblr #college #student #undergrad #astrophysics

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in the club checking my grades to see how much fun im allowed to have