• @ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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    341 day ago

    I read that as the subtext still being sexist because Biology tends to have more women in the field compared to Physics.

    • @Nikelui@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Nah, it’s typical university faction wars. Engineers say crap about architects, mathematicians sneer on physicists and so on…

      • @mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml
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        1020 hours ago

        How people can walk out of a university with degrees and not understand how all areas of knowledge contribute towards each other and link together in ways that are not immediately obvious astounds me.

        • @GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
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          219 hours ago

          because of a long established undercurrent of competition within departments (and even between professors) for recognition and advancement. That and there are some people that have very large but very fragile egos that can’t allow another person or discipline to grab more sunlight than them.

      • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        19 hours ago

        Engineers say crap about architects

        As an engineer, this shit is so cringe… There is a youtube gaming channel with an alleged engineer who plays video games (often related to physics or building things), and his entire fucking personality is formed around mocking architects for being “stupid.” He literally substitutes in the word “architect” instead of calling someone stupid. He say’s “they’re an architect.”

        Grow the fuck up goddamn. How insecure do you have to be?

      • @sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        218 hours ago

        I heard a joke once that a physical chemistry experiment will have 1000 data points per trend line; I organic chemistry will have 10 data points, and biochem will have 2 data points.

        I bet to biochemists it’s very insulting. Back to the comment in the anti-acknowledgements, that was insulting without even being funny.

        I like the ones that are symmetrical, like math thinks that physics is easy, and physics things that math is too unreal (I don’t remember the jokes)

        • @emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
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          416 hours ago

          a physical chemistry experiment will have 1000 data points per trend line; I organic chemistry will have 10 data points, and biochem will have 2 data points.

          There is an element of truth in this, but that one biochem datapoint probably took more money and (wo)manpower than a hundred phys chem datapoints. Which is sad, because biological systems are usually more complex, and therefore more ‘noisy’, needing more datapoints for a definitive result. Medical studies get a lot of datapoints for obvious reasons, and because they can afford to do it thanks to Merck et al.