College is what you put into it. A lot of people don’t get into the networking side of it because it’s never really introduced to them. Mostly professors look for those who are “turned on” to bring onto projects like that, that is, those that are engaged and asking questions and curious.
Youngins, lpt: talk to your professors and let them know you are interested and ask questions. It’s what you are there for- access to brains.
The UK system is a bit better about those kinds of things, courses tend to be modular with required internships etc. The American system is a lot different and scheduled like high school, but that may have changed since I was in it. It really was dependent on the course, though. I like the UK setup much better.
College and university are relatively interchangable colloquially in American English. Associate’s Degrees are 2 years. Colleges in Europe etc. are different.
Insects that undergo complete metamorphosis experience enormous changes in both morphology and lifestyle. The current study examines whether larval experience can persist through pupation into adulthood in Lepidoptera, and assesses two possible mechanisms that could underlie such behavior: exposure of emerging adults to chemicals from the larval environment, or associative learning transferred to adulthood via maintenance of intact synaptic connections. Fifth instar Manduca sexta caterpillars received an electrical shock associatively paired with a specific odor in order to create a conditioned odor aversion, and were assayed for learning in a Y choice apparatus as larvae and again as adult moths. We show that larvae learned to avoid the training odor, and that this aversion was still present in the adults. The adult aversion did not result from carryover of chemicals from the larval environment, as neither applying odorants to naïve pupae nor washing the pupae of trained caterpillars resulted in a change in behavior. In addition, we report that larvae trained at third instar still showed odor aversion after two molts, as fifth instars, but did not avoid the odor as adults, consistent with the idea that post-metamorphic recall involves regions of the brain that are not produced until later in larval development. The present study, the first to demonstrate conclusively that associative memory survives metamorphosis in Lepidoptera, provokes intriguing new questions about the organization and persistence of the central nervous system during metamorphosis. Our results have both ecological and evolutionary implications, as retention of memory through metamorphosis could influence host choice by polyphagous insects, shape habitat selection, and lead to eventual sympatric speciation.
I get them from a lot of places, not just Reddit. Not doing this forever; I’m just trying to start a match. ;) Sal put me as a mod, so I am just stirring the pot!
What does a PhD mean? (mander.xyz)
Can't we just talk about it without the maths? Guys? (mander.xyz)
I have a software joke, but I’m not ready to release it yet (i.imgur.com)
Cool S (mander.xyz)
xkcd.com/2690/
Memory Soup (mander.xyz)
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hippopocranuse!! (mander.xyz)
Pronouns. (mander.xyz)
fly like paper get high like Exocoetidae (mander.xyz)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_fish...
Missing topographical elements of Paleolithic rock art revealed by stereoscopic imaging (phys.org)
Its diving speed during flight is more than 300 km (186 miles) per hour, making it not only the world’s fastest bird but also the world’s fastest animal. (mander.xyz)
I have an archaeology joke but it's probably just a ritual. (mander.xyz)
What the hell, here it is: ArchaeoGPT (electricarchaeology.ca)
More info on Shawn’s Masto: scholar.social/
Solanum Smoothies (mander.xyz)
Megaloblatta longipennis is a species of cockroach in the family Ectobiidae. It is one of the world's largest cockroaches by length and wingspan. (mander.xyz)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaloblatta_longipennis