• @Candelestine
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    2911 months ago

    tbf, I’ve always loved the truth-seeking behavior at the heart of interdisciplinary academic squabbles about which science is more scientific than which other ones.

    Leads to further pressures to improve methodology via cross-pollination anyway.

    Though it does get out of hand sometimes. But in an environment with enough competitive young people, I think things getting out of hand on occasion is more or less inevitable, so whatever.

    Of course, it’s my own training in certain skillsets that makes me prefer this view.

    • DreamButt
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      1211 months ago

      It’s kinda baffaling to me that we don’t encourage more hybrid degrees for scientific reaearch. Like even if it was just 10% of the field that seems highly valuable

  • @[email protected]
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    1211 months ago

    Trees in a way are just big sticks stuck in the ground. And we all know sticks are great.

  • HeartyBeast
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    811 months ago

    This seems pretty dismissive of the work that field ecologists and botanists do - and the rigorous nature of their work

    • @kadu
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      3911 months ago

      It’s just a meme.

      A meme accurately representing my plant morphology teacher screaming at me because I couldn’t see if the god forsaken ovary was inferior or superior would not make me laugh, it would make me cry.

      • DreamButt
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        411 months ago

        Those notebooks have room for more tears

    • @[email protected]
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      1411 months ago

      Agreed, but id rather hang out with the botanists and field ecologists anyway. I chose biology as a major precisely because the biologists were chill. The geologists drank too much and the engineers seemed uncreative. People who love and appreciate biology are my people.

      • @[email protected]
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        2011 months ago

        If you’re not already watching crime pays but botany doesn’t on youtube you should start. It’s just 30+ minute videos of a profane botanist from Chicago running around nature and pointing out cool plants and complaining about society

        • @deus
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          811 months ago

          Thanks for the recommendation. I looked him up and to my surprise the first video that showed up was of him here in Brazil walking in the middle of absolute nowhere talking nonstop about every single plant he finds on the ground. I am hooked.