life is a constant refusal | UCI Chem PhD candidate @DJTraderLab 🍇 | Filipino chemical biologist messing around proteostasis | kaphaynayan | he/siya 🏳️🌈🇵🇭
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we live in little minutes and at the thought of losing them - moments they say will eventually come to you. had i known they will, i wouldn’t have bothered chasing. but nobody ever has that luxury, not in a world where dreaming meant always running out of time.
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Kacey Musgraves delivers a moving performance of “I Will Always Love You” in tribute to Dolly Parton at the 2026 #VMAs.
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i love this because a few years ago people were talking about "u don't owe anyone anything" and now everyone is talking about how hard it is to make friends as an adult, but they don't see the correlation and that's why they're mad at this video
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been following him nung puro dub pa sya bentang benta parin talaga kahit ulit ulitin 😅
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The way to be “cool” is to have cheap housing in a big city so all the bohemian and beatnik types who make $20K/year can come in and do their artsy stuff. This was what Berlin did in the 1990s.
Right now SF is just for people making $400K+ a year. And those people will never be cool.
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Everybody I've met who talks like this either has no self respect or is literally so dysfunctional they can't interact with other people in a normal way and the amazing thing is that none of them have "been extraordinary".
You should work exactly how much you feel like working.
I don’t agree. A PhD student should not prioritize work-life balance.
Getting to do a PhD is a privilege. You are paid to think. There is no pressure for you to be economically useful. It is a unique opportunity to push the boundaries of human knowledge and produce something ground breaking.
And nothing great ever happens without complete devotion. Look at everything that moved and shaped the world. Every single person who created anything meaningful, in science, in arts, in music, in movies, devoted their lives to their craft.
Extraordinary outcomes require extraordinary inputs and some degree of sacrifice. Sure, have work-life balance during your PhD. But be content a mediocre outcome.
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the devil wears prada 2 being a love letter to journalism in THIS current climate… oh absolutely a thousand times yes, I adored it with my whole heart
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For decades, biology textbooks have enshrined a simple rule: DNA is made by copying a template. After one enzyme unzips a DNA double helix into separate strands, another called a polymerase builds a complementary sequence, base by base, for each strand. Presto: two copies of the original DNA.
But new research into how bacteria defend themselves from viruses now shows this synthesis rule isn’t absolute.
Now, a team describes a bacterial enzyme that synthesizes DNA without a nucleic acid template, using its own structure as a guide.
Learn more: scim.ag/4tTc5IA @NewsfromScience
