<story><title>I&apos;m choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.</title><url>https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>escot</author><text>There is an immense amount of software work to be done in biotech.  Molecular biology research is in need of better automation, analysis, visualization techniques, and on and on.  We need folks at all levels.  I entered biotech as a web developer and have been able to pick more challenging problems to approach on a monthly basis.   We know next to nothing about the human body.  Im optimistic that tech will help out us on a stable path towards more robust research practices.</text></item><item><author>LeanderK</author><text>This keeps me up at night. I hope the collective advancement in science makes it possible to defeat cancer some day. I believe&amp;#x2F;hope that my contribution as a insignificant CS-student helps somebody develop tools that help somebody researching etc.&lt;p&gt;I am really convinced that every advancement is connected somehow and the collective improvement in efficiency and livings standards makes it possible to commit more resources and train even more students to work on hard problems.&lt;p&gt;Even the work on something unrelated like React might somehow help if you observe humanity as a whole.&lt;p&gt;Also f*ck cancer (i read the guidelines and i found no statue against insulting cancer, if there is a user named cancer its a misunderstanding and you should really consider changing your username)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>existencebox</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d echo sister posts re: how to get involved.  My wife is currently in biotech doing mixed research&amp;#x2F;slightly CS-ey work and it constantly boggles my mind how antique many of their methods are, but they barely have money to keep running let alone pay for the expertise and&amp;#x2F;or infrastructure to leverage modern computing.  Companies that have more freedom tend to be more restrictive I&amp;#x27;ve found, and without a PHD it can be hard to get a foot in the door.  Been doing data engineer&amp;#x2F;distributed systems&amp;#x2F;full stack engineer for almost a decade now and the recurring feeling of &amp;quot;I should be doing more to contribute to humanity&amp;quot; is often followed by contemplation of pursuing bio, but frankly I&amp;#x27;ve been in such a different part of industry I don&amp;#x27;t even know where to start without heavily hamstringing my current career (e.g. going back for a PHD, potentially in another field)</text></comment>
<story><title>I&apos;m choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.</title><url>https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>escot</author><text>There is an immense amount of software work to be done in biotech.  Molecular biology research is in need of better automation, analysis, visualization techniques, and on and on.  We need folks at all levels.  I entered biotech as a web developer and have been able to pick more challenging problems to approach on a monthly basis.   We know next to nothing about the human body.  Im optimistic that tech will help out us on a stable path towards more robust research practices.</text></item><item><author>LeanderK</author><text>This keeps me up at night. I hope the collective advancement in science makes it possible to defeat cancer some day. I believe&amp;#x2F;hope that my contribution as a insignificant CS-student helps somebody develop tools that help somebody researching etc.&lt;p&gt;I am really convinced that every advancement is connected somehow and the collective improvement in efficiency and livings standards makes it possible to commit more resources and train even more students to work on hard problems.&lt;p&gt;Even the work on something unrelated like React might somehow help if you observe humanity as a whole.&lt;p&gt;Also f*ck cancer (i read the guidelines and i found no statue against insulting cancer, if there is a user named cancer its a misunderstanding and you should really consider changing your username)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rubicon33</author><text>How would one get started in Biotech?</text></comment>