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Marxist-Leninist with Meowist leanings (cat supremacy, but love all animals)

Labor organizer. USian.

Scientist, experience in vaccines/drug delivery/chemistry/analytics/biochemistry/protection of eggs dropped from tall structures

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  • arXiv, not QrXiv.

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  • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzAir Fruit
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    2 months ago

    The treatment the plant in the picture received is called “air layering” that is used for propagation. You wound the stem you want to propagate, then wrap it with something moist. This leads to roots developing on that stem while it is still attached to the larger plant.

    I’m not familiar with using this method to induce fruit production and it didn’t look like they used air layering in the paper.

    Here’s the paper in the meme.




  • When you said glove boxes, I was thinking about all the times I hit my head on the glove boxes and Kim wipe boxes that were mounted to the front of our hoods above the sashes.

    You probably meant actual glove boxes, but it reminded me the corners of our glove box holders fucking hurt to bump your head into and I should move them someday.




  • Pour it in a proper waste container with a label and hand it over to EHS if in a lab. If not, do what another commenter said and let small amounts evaporate in a well-ventilated place.

    Large volumes are something you should contact local waste disposal about. This usually isn’t free, but sometimes they have certain times of year they’ll take them for free. Large volumes are ~ >1L.


  • Our hoods have a solvent trap at the front in case of large spills, it’s a stainless steel grate covering a large, high surface area secondary steel trap below. Ngl, I pour smaller amounts of pure volatiles in there to evaporate. Usually < 10 mL. Small volumes with dissolved solids get dumped in the glass waste container in the hood to evaporate before disposal too.

    Not the best practice, but the pragmatic approach.

    Larger volumes go to proper waste containers. Local EHS mostly just dilutes things before pouring it down the drain. Not much we can do about that, so I opt for greener solvents from the beginning wherever possible.







  • I agree, but also approach much of what is published with skepticism because there are many factors that can lead to results not being reproducible.

    Not that there aren’t issues with this idea, but I would like to see peer review change to include another independent lab having to reproduce your experiments as a means to verify the results. The methods you hand over to that lab are the ones that will be published, so if they can’t reproduce your results, it stays in review.