Brainoid

Qi Min got an opportunity to go on a business trip, so he had to make arrangements for things in the laboratory.

Ever since Chen Linyou and Wang Xin started experimenting with EPS cells, Qi Min hadn't paid much attention to them. Logically speaking, if she only leaves for three or four days, there shouldn't be any random words in the lab. But just in case, she still had to explain something, especially the arrangements for Ke Li.

When it was almost time for dinner on Friday afternoon, Wang Xin and Chen Linyou came to Qi Min for takeout again.

Qi Min ordered food on his mobile phone and had to play a game as usual while waiting for the takeout. But this time when everyone sat down in the laboratory, Wang Xin asked: "By the way, senior sister, why don't you play with that senior brother Hua recently?"

Qi Min wanted to calm down Hua Ruiming, but it was better not to tell Wang Xin and the others about this kind of thing: "Oh, he must be busy recently."

Then she added: "Now we have to do animal experiments on this subject, and researcher Zhou Xiaoshan's team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences needs someone to help. I have to go on a business trip the day after tomorrow for a meeting, and I may have to go for three or four days. I may need your help to greet me then. .”

"What other group of the Chinese Academy of Sciences does our group cooperate with?" Wang Xin said with some confusion, "I haven't heard of it."

Chen Linyou asked a more valuable question: "What is the name of the person who came? Are you going to live in the school temporarily?"

"My name is Ke Yue, he should be one year older than you two. I sent his WeChat business card to the group." Qi Min said, "I have already discussed with the academic affairs and logistics people, and arranged for him to live in the hospital. The vacant dormitory for doctoral students - by the way, Friends Lin, you guys should be in the same building, right?"

"Yes, the boys from the biology department all live together." Chen Linyou nodded, "Then I will just take him there."

In this way, you have finished explaining the key points. Qi Min added: "I have only been on a business trip for a few days, so you two are staying in the laboratory. If there are any problems when Ke Yue comes, you should tell me first."

"That's for sure." Wang Xin and Chen Linyou agreed immediately.

Wang Xin lowered her voice and asked, "Sister, are the people in this cooperation group specially sent by the teacher over there?"

"Well...don't count. I took the initiative to ask for help." Qi Min explained, "Because we really don't have enough people here."

"That's good..." Wang Xin said with relief, "I thought the cooperation team couldn't stand our progress."

"Why? Our progress is not too slow." Qi Min said, "I have completed more than half of the full-scale brain-like body here. You are doing negative control of EPS cells and the progress is going smoothly."

"Really? It always feels like the two of us have been doing repetitive work..." Wang Xin muttered in a low voice, "We just keep raising cells."

Qi Min looked at her and couldn't help but smile: "To be honest, biological research is inherently a labor-intensive industry, and this cannot be changed in the short term. Perhaps when AI technology develops to a certain extent, repetitive experiments can be done without humans. "

"Then wouldn't we all be unemployed?" Chen Linyou said, "Just like the automation of the assembly line crowding out ordinary workers?"

"Well, maybe." Qi Min shrugged, "WELCOME TO THE CAPTALIST SOCIETY."

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On Sunday, Qi Min boarded the plane with other PIs who were traveling to attend international natural science conferences.

Because there is a time difference of exactly 12 hours with the United States, they took off on Sunday morning, traveled 13 hours, and landed at noon local time. After coming out of the airport, these young PIs were dragged to the hotel to check in, and then went to have lunch that was actually a "late night snack."

Because of jet lag, everyone went back to their rooms to rest after dinner. The meeting was officially held the next day, and the two PIs who wanted to report went to prepare the reports first. For example, Qi Min, who only came to listen to people report their long-term insights, stayed in his room and watched TV.

The TV is still very nice. Mainly because Qi Min is now staying at Yan Zhaolan's house, and there is no TV in the small bedroom where she lives. It feels so good to be able to lie in bed and watch TV.

The meeting the next day also went smoothly - just sitting there and listening, you couldn't tell anything was wrong.

During the tea break, Qi Min saw from a distance the boss of the lab next door to her when she was studying for her Ph.D., but as a person with social phobia in public places, she had not had much communication with the lady before, so she did not go up to say hello.

But this made Qi Min realize that she had to find a way to know whether her boss when she was studying for a Ph.D. would come, otherwise it would be too embarrassing if she bumped into him by chance and she didn't say she was coming back.

Qi Min quickly asked her classmate Yelena, who has not yet graduated, on Skype. Yelena replied: "I definitely didn't go, the boss is in his office."

Then Yelena quickly followed: "Have fun, I will guarantee that you will not run into the boss in these three days!" She followed with a ":P" tongue-out smile.

"Тебя_люблю, Лена!" Qi Min replied happily.

"EEEW..." Yelena replied, "It's nothing to say in English, but it's a bit disgusting to say in Russian."

"Don't worry, it's just as disgusting as saying it in Chinese." Qi Min replied.

"Are you coming back to play when you have time?" Yelena asked.

Qi Min thought about it and realized that she was actually free. This kind of business trip usually left the last half a day for free activities. But she had to deal with matters with Anton, so it was not convenient for her to go back to the lab where she was studying for her Ph.D.

"We have a tight schedule, let's talk about it next time," Qi Min replied.

"Then wish me to graduate next year!" Yelena typed optimistically.

She and Qi Min are in the same class, so she should graduate in the first half of this year. Yelena's situation was better than Qi Min's before. Qi Min's article was rejected, but she just had to fill in a few data. But because Yelena went back to St. Petersburg in the winter, she was refused a visa when she wanted to come back, so she was delayed for a long time. Unexpectedly, Qi Min graduated based on other people's articles, but she didn't even graduate.

"You will definitely graduate, Lian Na." Qi Min joked, "As long as you don't go back to Russia this year and don't get refused a visa again."

"Haha." Yelena replied, "When I get my degree and go back, I will never come back. This is a lousy place that deliberately blocks Russian degrees!"

Qi Min couldn't help but laugh when he saw her saying this. It is now well known that the U.S. government excludes immigrants and international students. Qi Min did not dare to return to China during the Spring Festival for fear of getting a visa stuck when he returned to school. And Yelena is so worried that she has to go back to celebrate the New Year before graduation. Isn't this just a rush to be targeted?

But the US government just hates it. Qi Min and Yelena cursed the US government back and forth a few more times, and then talked to each other contentedly.

Scolding the U.S. government = political correctness of intellectuals (mistakenly