Congrats! My friend recently got his Master’s in History, and has been informing every telemarketer who calls that “Listen cupcake, it’s not Dave—I’m not going to hang at your crib and drink forties; listen here, pal, I have my own office! Can you say that? To you I’m Masters Smith.”
I certainly hope you wear your new title with a similar air of pretention, Doctor Cyan. :)
Because I’d need to preface it with a small deluge of information about protein chemistry, liquid chromatography, and mass spectrometry. I think I’d irritate folks if I did that.
Not always, or even usually. It seems to me that by and large, scientists invent ad hoc methods for their particular problems, and that applies in proteomics as well as other fields.
Henceforth, I am Dr. Cyan.
Congratulations! I guess people will believe everything you say now.
I certainly hope so!
Wear a lab coat for extra credibility.
I was thinking I’d wear a stethoscope and announce, “Trust me! I’m a doctor! (sotto voce)… of philosophy.”
Congrats! My friend recently got his Master’s in History, and has been informing every telemarketer who calls that “Listen cupcake, it’s not Dave—I’m not going to hang at your crib and drink forties; listen here, pal, I have my own office! Can you say that? To you I’m Masters Smith.”
I certainly hope you wear your new title with a similar air of pretention, Doctor Cyan. :)
I’ll do my best!
Sincerely,
Cyan, Ph.D.
Is ‘Masters’ actually a proper prefix (akin to the postfix Ph.D) for people with a Master’s degree? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before.
Congratulations!
Why not post an introduction to your thesis research on LW?
Because I’d need to preface it with a small deluge of information about protein chemistry, liquid chromatography, and mass spectrometry. I think I’d irritate folks if I did that.
Wear a lab coat for extra credibility.
With a doctorate in …?
Biomedical engineering. My thesis concerned the analysis of proteomics data by Bayesian methods.
Isn’t that what they normally use to analyze proteomics data? <\naive>
Not always, or even usually. It seems to me that by and large, scientists invent ad hoc methods for their particular problems, and that applies in proteomics as well as other fields.
Ah ha - So you were the last Cyan!
I briefly thought this was a Battlestar Galactica pun.
It was!
/me wonders what you then interpreted it as
I was going back and forth between Zion and Cylon, lol.