I notice how geologists are not even in the conversation.
It's because we are all outside playing in the dirt.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2025
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You should see what the archaeologists are up to
But how did the rocks you find TASTE?
I've always appreciated that as a prior valid qualification method in field geology as a biologist.
Licking our cultures, buffers, and samples tends to be frowned upon.
I was once studying biology, got up to the point of doing field studies. On one trip, we came upon what looked to be animal droppings. He went on about how the diet of the animal obviously affects the flavor of the excrement and then told us he could tell us what deposited it just by tasting it and proceeded, to the horror of many present to pop the littler turd in his mouth and chew on it.
Then he revealed that it was actually just a misshapen tootsie roll he had one of the aids sneak ahead on the trail and plant for him to fuck with us.
The aid could've done the funniest thing there
i mean we used to have mouth pipetting and DuPont chemists smoking in the lab and noticing the taste of their experiments on the cigs lol
Yeah I had an old chemistry professor of mine would habitually turn his head sideways when working in the hood. Lol
The worst ones are... radioactive, or asbestiform. So....
Kyanite is harmless but nasty.
Our geoscience department lords above lowly biopesants by 1 floor. We like to throw rotting fruit at them below us, while heckling "Culture deez nuts."
We once found a group of bio students on a field trip.
We pranked up their van and took incriminating pictures.
y'all are my favorite. rocks are cool.
Geology rocks
And they are better for it
Nonsense. An astrophysicist wouldn't be caught dead hanging out in public with their dealer and somebody who thinks counting past 1 is pointless.
(/s but also shit talking is fun so pop off if this made your blood boil and you've got a witty retort)
Be nice to the computer scientist! They wrote the program y'all space nerds can use to calculate orbital paths around your mom.
(how's that lol)
At least the program can run in polynomial time. They tried to do the same for yall stamp collectors moms but quickly realized that problem was NP hard!
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Computer scientist here. I definitely do not think I'm better than a biologist.
biochemist. i think I'm the worst lol
I was actually on track to becoming a biochemist before I changed to computer science
you absolutely made the right choice. i regret not switching to CS
Biology is just applied chemistry. Chemistry is just applied physics. Physics is just applied maths. Everything is maths.
Math is just simplified physics. Physics is just simplified chemistry. Chemistry is just simplified biology.
Chemistry is just simplified biology.
Eh, for organic, maybe. For inorganic not really. And all the crystal stuff is just physics we appropriated. And the rest of materials science is rightfully ours as well and one day we shall take it back from the engineers.
I was thinking about that and I decided I didn't give a fuck
Math is just simplified physics
I don't know if I agree with that. Math is the language used to express Physics concepts. Physics is a conceptualization of the fundamental laws of the universe
Trust a physicist to get butthurt that other fields are harder than theirs.
And holding up that entire stack is philosophy.
Not wrong at all, as true today as when it was first said.
I care more about genetic manipulation than all the others, and I'm pretty sure that's a branch of biology. So... Yeah. Bio #1.
Check out Michael Levin and his work with epigenetics. Extremely fascinating stuff.
Computer scientists? Sure, maybe. But all four of us will join together to resent the engineers for designing systems around extrapolated power law fits and lack of rigor (and totally not because they are higher paid or anything).
Four of you!? That's practically an army!!
Chemist here: yep.
Aw man :c
Aren't most computer scientists more like technicians or engineers than actual scientists?
I wouldn’t say so. People who majored in CS in undergrad frequently go on to be software engineers, but if you’re using the title of computer scientist you’re almost certainly on the scientific/theoretical/mathematic side of the practice.
Computer science is so broad you have some truth to your statement. It's more science in the way math is a science as math is one of the underlying building structure of computer science. It also deals with languages and syntax so that's also a subset of science.
Some comp sci people are technicians, computer engineers, some being computer researchers, data scientists, etc