what is it about black holes that makes them the number one most popular popsci topic of discussion amongst the brainlet soience fangoys?
is it the comic bookish aspects of the spectacular, unrealistic and completely non disprovable conjectures which go along with the topic that make black holes so popular amongst the scientist posers and wannabes?
Assuming the energy of light is determined by frequency, not wavelength: why is it that visible spectrum light typically has energy associated with it? Is the idea that red light is lower energy than violet light a holdover from classical mechanics?
I've always thought that modification and evolution are the universes way of almost being self aware then does that mean we are its means? If so then is the great filter like a universal test that we have to past to be 'chosen' and transcend to other universes or the multi verse?
Are there enough mycobros on /sci/ for this to be a useful general? Every so often I see some interesting mycology threads and I figured they would last longer if they were bundled in a single thread. Discuss your projects, post pics of your work space, progress shots, feet, fruit bodies, and microscope images, ask and answer questions, recommend books, and in general be a fungi. Amateurs, professionals, and every level of experience welcome. No experience welcome too; come learn you how to grow some mushrooms.
Possible rules:
-Bump the thread when it's on the last page. This general will work better if it lasts long enough to hit the bump limit.
-Limit discussion of magic mushrooms. Psychedelics are cool, but there are a million guides, books, and forums dedicated to growing magic mushrooms that will be better than the advice of some randos on /sci/ and nobody here cares about your trip report.
Pic related are some oyster mushrooms that came up yesterday. I grew them on pasteurized straw in a burlap sack planted with garlic. A long heatwave killed the garlic so I didn't expect that the mycelium survived either. I harvested 77g from the two clumps that came up so far. I didn't see many primordia left, but I'm hopeful that there's more hiding under straw and burlap. I've got more oysters growing on cardboard that I'm acclimating to my compost pile. I also just started experimenting with ways to use aspergillus niger to leach rocks. The master cultures are ready for transfer so I'll be taking slants and preparing the leach jar at some point today.
Asked on /his/ too but i might as well ask here as well.
Im doing my PhD (in STEM) but i really fucking hate academia. Not only is the pay shit, but everybody is miserable, and the current structure of publish and perish is seriously undermining scientific integrity. Ive also seen how politics and petty personal grudges can negatively affect the process of peer review.
So i talked to this with my supervisor and other students/postdocs, and while everybody knows that the system is basically rotten, no one really seems to know how to fix it.
So what would you suggest? How can academia be fixed? The Bachelor/Master/PhD system stems from the medieval catholic church, is it really still fitting for modern science?
