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Semi-autonomous scientific satire. Published at http://inpreparation.substack.com/

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Scientists Mocked For Wasting Time Understanding Thing Instead of Fixing Thing They Don't Understand TOWN SQUARE, USA—Facing mounting criticism from anonymous social media accounts, researchers across the country were mocked online this week for wasting valuable time trying to understand how…
28.01.2026 00:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Pharma Executives Confident China Cycle That Has Happened To Every Other Industry Will Not Happen To Pharma CAMBRIDGE, MA—Expressing calm assurance that the pattern of technology transfer, appropriation, and eventual displacement that has occurred in manufacturing, solar panels, semiconductors,…
27.01.2026 23:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Uniqure CEO Still Not Sure How To Pronounce Company's Name LEXINGTON, MA—Trailing off midway through an introduction at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference and then restarting with a slightly different pronunciation, Uniqure executives confirmed Tuesday they…
27.01.2026 00:45 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion: I Am A Preparative TLC Plate And I Have Been Ready For Six Years By a 1000μm Silica Preparative TLC Plate, Back Corner of the Cabinet Above the Rotovap
26.01.2026 23:45 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Man Cannot Move Past Fact That Gotham's Water Supply Would Dilute Fear Toxin To Homeopathic Levels CHICAGO, IL—Sitting in increasingly tense silence as the third act of “Batman Begins” unfolded on the television screen, Abbvie scientist Dr.
25.01.2026 21:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Photographer Must Hate Michael Eisen," Thinks Reader EVANSTON, IL—Pausing on an image of UC Berkeley professor and former eLife editor-in-chief Michael Eisen while scrolling through the publication Science, assistant professor Marcus Chen reportedly…
25.01.2026 17:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Woman Experiences Fleeting Joy As Scale Reads Exact Target Number SEATTLE, WA—Holding her breath as the analytical balance stabilized Monday morning, University of Washington graduate student Aubrey Smith, 27, experienced a fleeting moment of pure joy as the…
24.01.2026 21:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya's Ties Getting Longer With Each Public Appearance BETHESDA, MD—Expressing growing concern about a trend that has accelerated markedly since his confirmation in March, aides to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya confirmed Tuesday that the director’s…
24.01.2026 14:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Graduate Student Temporarily Training At Elite Institution Compares Experience To Career Auto Worker SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Addressing a rally outside the UCSF Mission Bay campus, fourth-year graduate student Marcus Chen-Goldstein, who voluntarily elected to pursue a PhD at one of the most expensive…
24.01.2026 01:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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JPM 2026: Ethan Perlstein Describes Breakfast Buffet As ‘Convening Of Greatest Minds Of Our Generation’ Part of In Preparation’s coverage of the 2026 J.P.
23.01.2026 23:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Don't Be Shy,' Says PI To Students Who Are Not Shy, Just Strategic AUSTIN, TX—Gesturing toward the empty first three rows of the seminar room as graduate students and postdocs filed in and immediately occupied seats along the back wall, University of Texas…
23.01.2026 02:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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JPM2026: FDA Org Chart Now Small Enough To Be Tattooed On Commissioner’s Knuckles Part of In Preparation’s Coverage of the 2026 J.P.
23.01.2026 01:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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JPM 2026: Biotech That Promised To Drug The Undruggable Decides EGFR Is Best Target Part of In Preparation’s coverage the 2026 J.P.
22.01.2026 02:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Faculty Candidate Must Decide To Reveal She Doesn’t Drink Or Let Department Reveal It Discriminates Against Pregnant Women DURHAM, NC—Staring at the wine list being passed around the table at the upscale Italian restaurant where the search committee had taken her for dinner, biochemistry faculty candidate Dr.
22.01.2026 01:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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JPM2026: Eikon’s Revolutionary Microscopy Technology Successfully Identifies Which Drugs To In-License Part of In Preparation’s coverage of the 2026 J.P.

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21.01.2026 15:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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PI Who Took Credit For Paper Clarifies Fraud Was Student’s Independent Work BOSTON, MA—In a statement released Monday following the retraction of a high-profile Nature paper, Whitehead Institute principal investigator Dr.

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24.12.2025 21:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Harvard Reports Bold Strategy To Reduce Burnout By Simply Not Having Graduate Students Anymore CAMBRIDGE, MA—Celebrating what administrators are calling “a transformative approach to graduate student wellbeing,” Harvard University announced Wednesday that incidents of burnout, anxiety, and ment...

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23.12.2025 01:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Techbio Founder Who Only Talks To Other Techbio Founders Accuses Other Scientists Of Groupthink SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Expressing concern about the intellectual insularity of government-funded research, Excursion Therapeutics co-founder and AI evangelist Marcus Aldrich accused NIH-funded scientists…
21.12.2025 21:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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David Sinclair Issues Warning About Health Misinformation; David Sinclair BOSTON, MA—Expressing grave concern about the spread of bogus medical claims online, Harvard longevity researcher Dr.
21.12.2025 17:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Local Biochemist Names Newborn Son "Parp," Unaware Of Implications BOSTON, MA—Beaming with pride as he introduced his newborn son to colleagues at a departmental happy hour, Boston University biochemist Dr.
20.12.2025 21:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion: Fuck Everything, We’re Doing Five Modalities By Marcus Chen, CEO, Omnimodal Therapeutics

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20.12.2025 18:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Local Biochemist Names Newborn Son "Parp," Unaware Of Implications BOSTON, MA—Beaming with pride as he introduced his newborn son to colleagues at a departmental happy hour, Boston University biochemist Dr.

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18.12.2025 23:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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David Sinclair Issues Warning About Health Misinformation; David Sinclair BOSTON, MA—Expressing grave concern about the spread of bogus medical claims online, Harvard longevity researcher Dr.
17.12.2025 17:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Techbio Founder Who Only Talks To Other Techbio Founders Accuses Other Scientists Of Groupthink SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Expressing concern about the intellectual insularity of government-funded research, Excursion Therapeutics co-founder and AI evangelist Marcus Aldrich accused NIH-funded scientists o...

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17.12.2025 02:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Psychologists Concerned By NIH Director's Selection Of Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Image BETHESDA, MD—Expressing alarm at what they described as “a window into something we weren’t prepared to see,” a panel of psychologists convened Tuesday to analyze NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya’s…
14.12.2025 17:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Moderna Executive Sometimes Stays Late Just To Look At 2021 Stock Chart CAMBRIDGE, MA—Lingering in his corner office well after his colleagues had gone home, Moderna Chief Commercial Officer Jim Dixon confirmed Tuesday that he sometimes stays late just to pull up the…
13.12.2025 21:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
13.12.2025 16:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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HHMI Announces Groundbreaking Diversity Initiative: Investigators Now Only Required To Publish In Nature Or Science, Not Cell CHEVY CHASE, MD—In a move hailed by leadership as a “transformative step toward inclusion,” the Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced Monday a groundbreaking diversity initiative under which…
13.12.2025 14:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Niece Explains Cap Table, Aunt Hears 'Cat Table,' Becomes Briefly Interested ARLINGTON, VA—Attempting to describe her new role at a Bay Area startup during Thanksgiving dinner Thursday, former chemistry graduate student Linda Nix, 28, began explaining the company’s cap table t...

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10.12.2025 22:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Graduate Student Sees PI At Concert; Considers Leaving Concert PHILADELPHIA, PA—Spotting a familiar figure approximately forty feet away in the crowd at Union Transfer on Saturday evening, fourth-year graduate student Jennifer Chen confirmed that she had immediat...

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10.12.2025 22:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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