fun things to do in lab

cancerbiophd:

  • accidentally crushing a pcr tube when opening it with one hand
  • dropping… anything. especially an entire box of frozen samples. 
  • slightly too large gloves and getting them caught as you close tubes
  • when the magnetic spin bar spins too fast and does the thing
  • listening to someone else’s forgotten timer go off
  • “uh… what’s that smell..”
  • going in for a pipette tip and then overturning the entire box
  • 16 hour time-points
  • srsly who invented 16 hr time-points
  • they’re inhumane
  • labelling rows and rows of 600 ul microcentrifuge tubes by hand
  • “we’re sorry but this reagent has been back-ordered for 3 months”
  • listening to the scraping noise of plastic culture flasks on metal shelves
  • getting your samples stuck in any sort of machine
  • “i need you to go and catalog every chemical we have”
  • cleaning cell culture incubators with aerosolized 70% ethanol 
  • having the fire alarms go off when you’re literally in the middle of something that can not be put down no i will perish in this fire before i forgo this damn experiment!
  • that sense of pure panic when you realize you miscalculated how much reagent you need
  • “one of your mice died and its cage mates ate half the body”

(via starstufflady)

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