I read this meme as a satire on the nature of graduate school research projects, where you often spend inordinate amounts of time repeating the same type of experiment in a variety of ways. This lets you publish either on the sheer body of work or, ideally, one of the products is particularly interesting and you get a bigger paper from it alone.

The “substrates” in this meme are odd and difficult to react, which again reflects many thesis projects. Also there are no stated goals and success is hard to measure or define.

Despite the absurdity of the scientific work, the subject still chooses to perform it even though they are deprived of real world relationships formed at Susan’s baby shower and may also directly degrade their relationships with their Mom, brother’s girlfriend, and dog because of it while also putting their health in jeopardy via cell alkylation.

Interesting. This feels like a variant of EMDR which is a pretty well-known therapy but isn’t mentioned in the article

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/22641-emdr-therapy

The author’s credentials do not indicate any professional scientific training. Their only professional affiliation is the “institute” that they founded and has no other apparent membership. There are three manuscripts associated with their ORCID, all single-author with the same affiliation above. Two of those manuscripts have definitely not passed peer review, the third likely has not either but it’s not immediately clear. On the institute’s website the author is called a “revelation philosopher”. This PowerPoint graphic claims to explain their theory https://siel.global/assets/images/image01.jpg?v=6b7feba2

Any one of these things would be a red flag for scientific legitimacy. Together they are a recipe for pseudoscientific nonsense

I’ve been using bitwig on Linux for hobby production for about a year now. It works but it’s fairly buggy, with very sluggish controls and more frequent plugin crashes. I despise windows so won’t go back, but I’d also love to see continued improvement. One big step would be for more plugin developers to release CLAP versions.

Popular Science/Mechanics have been clickbait since before the dawn of the internet. I wish I knew how to filter them out of my feed

More like 16,000 x g for a normal desktop centrifuge and 80,000 x g+ for an ultracentrifuge

Completely agree with your comment about “hitting a wall at running speed” . I switched my music production PC to Linux in a fit of pique at Microsoft. I have used Linux/unix for 25 years at this point, but this move and the resulting technical hurdles took my output to 0% and it hasn’t recovered in a couple of months.

I don’t want to switch back but I also really miss my hobby and main creative outlet

The university is exploiting your idealism to get you to work without being paid enough. You aren’t “in a position to help people”, you are doing a job for an organization with revenues. They could allocate more revenue to accomplish this work without forcing you to work until 1 AM, but they have made the choice that the work is not worth paying for.

That being said, most good people will go the extra mile if they think it can make a difference, but I see too many who take full responsibility on themselves and “cover” for financially-motivated organizational decisions, which in turn encourages the people who make those decisions to cut even more.