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Sep 13, 2016 4:55 PM
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BlondieSayWhat
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Incantanto
Chemistry reaction times: 2h:over lunch, 16h: overnight. 72h: over weekend. Very very common.
BoiledCowHemorrhoids
Manipulating the results for antibiotic sensitivity testing because the plates were contaminated.
ColdRevenge
Tom Petty isn't as scary as a surgeon cutting to the American Psycho soundtrack.
thetrulymaddog1134
That's hilarious
TheDispensableHobbesAndCalvin
AaronAustin0
Why am I an inbred and do not know where this is from.
jenigrl85
Xmen first class
jmartkdr
Aka "the good X-Men movie"
ANightAtTheCocksbury
The best part of having full control of experimental design is making it fit your schedule. No more sexing fruit flies at 6am.
Level1NPC
Rat sacrifices *to* Tom Petty or to (the music of) Tom Petty? Inquiring minds want to know!
zombiejon
Singing 3 Blind Mice or Little Bunny Foo Foo,
OkButWhyWereTheyFilming
Any scientist worth his/her salt knows rat sacrifices must be done to Black Sabbath.
mikeatike
both
bartman2014
....and I'm free.... Free fallin....
MetalSkeletal
Rat sacrifices TO Tom Petty so he'll play his music for us - DrRDuke et al.
CapnDonal
Including Tom Petty, who is wondering why he has the powers of a rat god.
dengsauve
Gold
DoctorWh0m
He's beginning to feel like a rat god, rat god
LeggoMyAhegao
All the lab mice from the front and to the back nod
JohnathanJacobJinglySchmidt
How are we supposed to replicate it if we don't know?
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
If you want some scary shit, follow @RealPeerReview on twitter.
DavidBrooker
Having the freedom to limit your work to weekdays from 9-5 sounds like an enormously laid back and relaxed grad school experience.
EddieDeanofNewYork
I'm an undergrad doing some independent work and I can't get away with that shit
ZaneF77
9-5? Shit, I don't go in before 10am most days, and I'm out by 5 (MSc student). My PhD colleagues are even lazier for the most part.
DavidBrooker
In our research group (3 PIs), most of the Ph.D. students work 10-12 hours a day, 6-days a week. More close to deadlines. 1/2
DavidBrooker
We have high expectations for publication output. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but I suspect it's closer to the norm to be honest. 2/2
masonberserker
Seriously. I'm lucky to have anything less than a 12 hour day! I wonder where they went to grad school...
roseHyacinth
Sometimes you get a research job, have a family and find other things to do with your time besides talk to people in your cohort.
chloramphenicolderivative
Might be in Europe. The group I'm in has most of the grad/post docs do around 40 hours a week.
zombiejon
I was talking to someone who thought academia posts came with OT pay, housing wage, and a signing bonus...
chloramphenicolderivative
2/2 it sounds great at first, but then there will never be another phd student hired in America.
chloramphenicolderivative
There was some talk about some legistlation making phd students be viewed has humans and deserving of OT pay in the US. 1/2
zombiejon
I'm not talking about PhD students. I'm talking about a post-doc/research assistant/research associate/scientific officer/professor post.
callitrichidae
Post doc minimum wage just increased, or institutions can opt to keep their salaries low and pay ot
experimentalmirv
Yeah, I thought I was lucky when I'm only in the lab 40 hours a week and the other 20+ hours are at home
flounder35
PCR bench was sanitized with fire because 3 foot high flames are fucking awesome.
Kaysmira
maximsk
BritishBenzene
As a lab safety person: I can't approve. As I private citizen: yes, flames are totally cool.
ProfessionalJalapenoWrangler
I can relate to these. One time we kept the centrifuge at 1000 RPM because it was quiet enough for us to nap.
LetMeGoogleThatShtForYou
I used to love coming on weekends and nights, met a few regular friends, would play league while waiting on incubators or autoclaves
ThatRussian
It was just me and my E. coli on the weekends, all by ourselves :(
AjEmEPoliszBojfrend
Right? That's the best time for watching movies on the big projector screen in the conference room!
Temenos
as a non science guy, what does spinning the blood even do?
MegaZeus101
It can be used to separate red and white blood cells, among a variety of other things.
proileri
Makes it go round round baby round round.
Slander7
You know how DNA looks like a twisted ladder? You have to spin it really fast to untwist it and unlock its secrets.
OneZebraInAHerdOfWildebeests
Keeps vampires wanting.
TheScarfyDoctor
Needs more appreciation, gold
imadethisaccounttotellyouthis
Its a density issue. Bloody has different components at different density. Spinning causes the most dense parta to go to the bottom.
Sometimesbasketballsometimespoop
This. Is. Parta!
LongtimeLurker148
Thank you for this
imadethisaccounttotellyouthis
Partacleese, at your service.
Floorbook
Red cells go to the bottom, since they are dense and full of iron, White cells and platelets go next, then plasma which is the liquid bit
Floorbook
When centrifuges are old and worn they become unbalanced and make scary noises this scares the blood so that it runs away in all directions
Floorbook
Then you have to take it apart and clean all the parts with bleach. Sometimes the blood gets so scared it breaks its tubes to get out.
whyiseverythingupsidedown
Separates the blood in to its different components.
AsFakeAsTrees
Does it just take longer at lower rpm or does it not do as good of a job separating?
onemorelonelybastard
Yes.
Floorbook
Am scientist, can confirm. Yes.
moothaphuckingparmeggiano
*slow clap sir*
masonberserker
Over 8500rpm, our centrifuge sounds like a Decepticon violating a dial-up modem with the volume turned up to 11.
ProfessionalJalapenoWrangler
Beautifully written
HypnoButler
As someone that designs centrifuges, you should really get that looked at. Also check your balancing.
SnarkDarcy
Our centrifuge has been so finicky that I stopped measuring by cc and instead started weighing the damn things on the scale.
scnottaken
Can confirm, have done that before.
masonberserker
Rotor is clean as a whistle. Loads are always balanced. Lab is too poor to get anything professionally fixed so we just pray before spins
TheAwfulNene
Have you seen the results of a rotor failure?
masonberserker
I have. Safety constantly shows pics from '98 Purdue ultra-centrifuge accident. I've kicked this up the chain, but no one will pay to fix it
Wetouchingbuttsornah
pray to the gods of science, they are forgiving but random.
HorribleMonster
There's nothing random about it. Unless the science is very small.
AlexDuos
Good to know that even (presumably) funded research insistutes can't stand f'n paywalls.
chloramphenicolderivative
Not all paywalls are bad. The ones on sites my institute has an agreement with doesn't bother me...
Throrf
It's a travesty. Most of the science published in them is already paid by with taxes. You basically pay for the paper twice.
ANightAtTheCocksbury
For students, you can pay for the materials you need to do the actual work or for literature review. Rarely have grant $ for both.
battymcbatbat
Yeah it's a fucking joke
Zokalwe
Oh god, you have no idea. Scientific journals are a bane on science.
ProfessionalJalapenoWrangler
For real man.....
Thisaccountwillbethedeathofmysociallife
Lol the parent company of my company does paywall stuff and I think they're godawful
senormiguel
Check out sci-hub.cc, it fetches papers for you and bypasses paywalls.
PetitChocolat
What is a paywall
TheRagingRiver
It's where you have to pay to read the paper.
AsABiologistWhoIsNotFunAtParties
As a scientist, your work is only respected if it is published in a peer-reviewed journal, and you need to read these publications to show(1
AsABiologistWhoIsNotFunAtParties
that you took into account related work by other scientists, and cite them in your own research papers, and you need to pay out the ass to(2
AsABiologistWhoIsNotFunAtParties
even read them. It's a disastrous, monopolistic scheme that scientists are stuck in, slowing progress for all for the profits of a few.(3/3)
thatsagooddog
Aaaaaand don't forget that the paper authors and the peer reviewers (other academics who ensure high quality) are not paid for the paper, it
Ishalldefenestrateyou
They are awful. 38$ to read an 8 page paper that may or may not have 3 sentences describing a method I want to use and cite.
JohnnyLawlessEsq
http://booksc.org/
Hyippy
Future me use this website
Ishalldefenestrateyou
Amazing. probably the best actual science link.
JohnnyLawlessEsq
The book side, http://bookzz.org has saved me over a thousand bucks in textbooks alone.
notabrainlet
So i don't know what university your from, but mine has this library program where they either scan the article from the printed magazine 1/
ChronologicalMyopia
Yes, this. Though some programs also include articles behind paywalls in these databases, you should be able to filter them out.
notabrainlet
or they find it for you digitally because they have "linked" a bunch of uni-libraries and share resources. Using this resource I've found 2/
notabrainlet
papers with less than 3 citations. So I would look into whether your schools library has a similar program. 3/3
Spongybunny
This would have been useful for my masters' project if I had started a lot earlier.
xLiarxLyrex
Galileo?!
Ishalldefenestrateyou
If I decide to go and get more degrees I shall keep that in mind :)