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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You got through a doctoral program in evolutionary biology without knowing how to spell tweezers?

. . .

Okay.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Have you met people this educated in fields this specialized? They ain't got time, or room in their brain, to care about spelling.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

It's too egregious, it has to be ragebait. And you know what, it worked

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Yeahbut . . .”tweasers”? C’mon man. Just spell the band and put a T in front.

[–] sym@piefed.blahaj.zone 29 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

The worst part is when you wobble slightly and insert the strand of DNA in the wrong place, so instead of curing the patient's genetic disease they immediately sprout horns.

[–] Senseless@feddit.org 12 points 17 hours ago

One might say you make your patients horny.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That sound badass, where do I sign up?

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 9 points 17 hours ago

Sorry, I accidentally spliced in the wrong bit of DNA for you; now you have 2 anuses coming out of your palms, and you can't control them, like birds.

[–] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 49 points 20 hours ago

And when she says that, she doesn't mean finding a supplier. Once you put the tweezers down, you'll never find them again

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 8 points 16 hours ago

Looks like it's normal size tweezers, but vastly enlarged DNA.

[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 6 points 15 hours ago

Does CRISPR count as tweasers?

[–] markz@suppo.fi 21 points 20 hours ago

The last image: my dna hurts

[–] notsure@fedia.io 12 points 20 hours ago

...i find this funny...on so MANY lavels...

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 7 points 19 hours ago

Doctors: I'm helping

You're creating strand breaks is what you're doing.

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 5 points 18 hours ago

I'm sure they also spend a lot of time staring face to face with a DNA strand too

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

You're telling me these https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_tweezers

don't look like traditional tweezers except really small?

[–] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I think she means "as an evolutionary biologist: you have no idea ...". Rather than "as an evolutionary biologist, you have no idea ...".

Well, I did indeed have no idea I was an evolutionary biologist...