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  • applied for a grant last month, now to finalize grant you need to publish things in open access format. (EU country; there’s a push for all publicly funded research to be open access, with it being a requirement from year ??? on, not sure when, but soon) there’s some special funding set aside just for open access fees, which is still rotten because these leeches still stand to profit. then, if you miss that, then there’s an agreement where my uni pays a selection of publishers to let in certain number of articles per year open access, which is basically the same thing but with different source of funding (not from grant, but straight from ministry)









  • All HPLC samples that i do, before putting them on column i filter them through short layer of silica to separate all the insoluble and entirely too polar crap

    Additionally there’s also short guard column before main column, so if something goes really fucking wrong it’s the 2cm guard column that is to be replaced and not the 20cm main one

    I work mostly with NP-HPLC so your situation might be a bit different, but the general principle is there