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Jacob Reimer @viajake
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Well that was super weird. I just went down a rabbit hole of watching scientist-made parody music videos and came out the other side sobbing like a baby.

My non-scientist wife is amused, and (she assures me) touched.
It started innocently enough, with me showing her the new UCSD "Postdoc Me Now" video.
Then on to their 2016 vid:
Of course I knew about the fantastic "Bad Project" video (4.6M views) from a lab down the hall here at BCM:
But it turns out there's a whole genre of video parodies about the trials and tribulations of being a scientist. For example:
And here's another:
In the spirit of full disclosure, this the one that (to my great surprise) put me over the top:
And this guy, wtf:
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