Time-traveling Gregor Mendel waking up in a modern research lab would be the ultimate culture shock. The man who quietly studied pea plants in a monastery garden suddenly thrust into a world of grant applications and citation metrics. His groundbreaking genetics work was largely ignored until after his death, so he'd be utterly baffled by our "publish or perish" academic hellscape. Meanwhile, we're all over here stress-eating our feelings while he's like "but have you seen how these wrinkly peas consistently produce wrinkly offspring? Fascinating stuff!"
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