Congrats!!! By successfully navigating this insane maze you've now 'proven' that you can obtain funds. You'll be made to jump through a series of hoops, but assuming your publication history is at all reasonable, you're pretty much ready for going straight from grad student to PI. I highly highly suggest skipping postdoc hell if you have any chance at all, but if you can't, just repeat whatever magic you just did and spare yourself the pain of staying there too long. Having your salary go from 36k to ~100k (without passing through the 50k mark) will feel very good.
Good luck with the meiosis project! Rooting for ya!
I have a very limited understanding of this subject, but this is my best attempt at constructing a coherent answer: it's an open scientific/philosophical question.
Anything in scare-quotes ("Like this") below is a word or concept that I only have rudimentary, incomplete, or mistaken understanding of- you have been forewarned.
Currently, our best understanding of the time evolution of the universe is given by the standard model of particle physics, which is quantum mechanical and uses the Schrodinger wave equation to predict the behavior of subatomic particle... (read more)
I wish more people would be willing to discuss the really interesting game theory that might lead a certain type of person to prefer polyamory. One of the major problems with monogamy is, obviously, that people defect. They do it all the goddamn time because sex (and specially new partner sex) is such a huge dopamine hit for some people. And the longer-running and more stable and trusting a relationship is, the more the opportunities and low-risk occasional defection/cheating can become (specially if sexual reward or frequency drops). It's why infidelity-d... (read more)