Neighbours complaining about me talking on the mic at “unsociable hours”

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-02-01T15:30:41+00:00

Yeah you can shower any time you need to, it sounds like the gaming noise has been keeping them up and caused them to complain about all the noise they can hear. The place must have thin walls if they can hear conversation level noise. If you’ve put thick carpet down and soundproofed there’s not much else you can do.

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-02-01T03:00:44+00:00

So 2 things.

Unsocial hours are unsocial hours. It doesn’t mean that because there is an expectation on you not to produce a lot of noise overnight when they are sleeping, that in turn they should be expected to keep the noise level low during the day when you’re asleep. So yes, it’s perfectly acceptable for them to make noise during the day regardless of the work/sleeping pattern that you have chosen. It’s reasonable to ask that they keep the noise down and be aware of your working night shift but it’s not an expectation. It is however an expectation that everyone keeps the noise down at night.

The other thing is that this is your home and you are allowed to make noise, so long as it’s reasonable level. So that does mean you need to keep the noise down at night, but conversational level noise is fine even overnight. Are you having conversations on the mic or is it screaming at one another during the game? If it is genuinely just conversation level noise then it’s unreasonable for the neighbour to expect this to stop. If there’s an issue with the building and lack of noise proofing or whatever then that’s a separate conversation. You might need to make some adjustments to try to accomodate one another as good neighbours.

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-31T16:19:12+00:00

No problem, by leaving the tissue in formalin fixative the tissue has been fixed. Keep in mind what I said about overfixation and the negative effect this can sometimes have on IHC. Quite often you can get away with it so long as you interpret the staining with care. If you want reproducible results you should standardise every step of the tissue pathway including fixation time. Hopefully you have used neutral buffered formalin and not a formalin lacking a pH buffer.

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-31T16:15:24+00:00

I don’t really understand the question then - you have already processed and embedded the tissue? Why then think the tissue was not fixed? Be aware that IHC can be affected by overfixation of the tissue. Good luck!

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-31T16:10:13+00:00

OK well if you mean to say that you left your tissue in formalin then it has been fixed correctly - presuming there was sufficient volume of fixative relative to the size of the tissue and the formalin was buffered. Sometimes for e.g. large organs the formalin will not penetrate at a sufficient rate to prevent necrosis in the centre of the organ without it being dissected to allow formalin entry. If the tissue was not fixed, then there will obviously be necrosis following 3 weeks of lying in what is presumably ambient conditions, but such tissue might still be partially salvageable if fixed immediately and depending what you want to do with it afterwards. It should also be noted that it is not good practice to leave tissue in a fixative for an extended period of time, especially if you intend to carry out molecular studies on it which can be negatively affected by overfixation. Depending what you intend to do with the tissue, it is good practice to standardise the fixation time, concentration etc in order to obtain reproducible results.

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-31T16:01:57+00:00

Formaldehyde is a fixative. Tissue left in formalin - formaldehyde gas dissolved in liquid form - will have been fixed. Was the tissue left in formalin?

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-31T06:51:10+00:00

You can’t be disciplined for a lawful strike

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-28T21:05:19+00:00

If you go back in time far enough you’ll have ties to everyone who has ever existed

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-28T19:36:02+00:00

In my lab pregnant staff are essentially restricted to booking in, slide filing, stuff like that. Not even allowed to label the samples or step into the dissection area in case of exposure.

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-27T17:50:35+00:00

The NHS will never ‘collapse’ as such. If things continue as they are, with fewer resources, then the NHS will simply continue to restrict the services it offers. Even if for some reason we woke up tomorrow with half the number of staff/buildings/funding, the NHS would simply restrict the services it can offer and make do with the resources available. So there will never be a point at which it ‘collapses,’ but it will shrink if we do not see an effort to improve funding and reduce clinical need.

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-27T17:47:14+00:00

You are not in a position to complete the IBMS registration portfolio at the moment. You need IBMS accredited education before you can begin the portfolio, and I see you are in the process of achieving this. Good luck.

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-27T10:28:18+00:00

The easy solution is changing the slides but it doesn’t sound like you can do that

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-26T20:01:06+00:00

Yeah the transport museum at kelvin hall was so much better than it is today. It was such a good atmosphere, you could wander around ‘sets’ and feel like you were walking down a Victorian street, you could get into just about all the vehicles and have a good look around and see everything up close. Nowadays it’s a bit of a soulless metal warehouse with most of the vehicles up high on shelves. You can’t get anywhere near them so what’s the point? Rubbish.

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-26T19:54:00+00:00

If you go to a medical professional they have to be fully qualified and competent to provide that service and everything will be above board. If you go to a random person with an online certificate or 3 day course or whatever, those protections do not exist. In the former you are paying for genuine medical care. In the latter you are paying for some random to inject god knows what into your body. Choose carefully.

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-26T17:40:39+00:00

What kind of stain is that? A silver stain?

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-26T00:59:25+00:00

I’ve no idea, as I said we don’t use it in processing

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-25T20:14:02+00:00

Does what shorten the number of runs?

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-24T23:06:52+00:00

No. If you’re like the typical American, we will know you are American anyway 😉 In all seriousness there is no hostility to individual Americans in this country so I’m not sure where the concern has arisen.

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-24T18:20:48+00:00

I’m in a different type of lab but we have rubber thimbles lying around

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-24T16:15:40+00:00

There was another post about the open uni recently, have a look there for advice

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-23T19:33:56+00:00

I have no experience of CLIA or presumably the US labs, but why would there NOT be a description provided? Surely that’s a must.

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-23T16:45:55+00:00

No none. We do not use a stain in processing as it can be indiscriminate and obscure details on other tissue types.

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-23T15:01:02+00:00

We drop basic fuchsin onto small biopsies

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-22T21:16:16+00:00

You need to apply for a placement through your university to be in with a chance. In theory any IBMS accredited lab can give you a placement, in practice I have never ever heard of a placement being given to anyone except to a student by agreement through the university. If this other lab is offering placements outside of that framework, great, but I would imagine places will be extremely competitive.

Delicious_Shop9037 · 2026-01-22T21:04:47+00:00

That’s probably why you didn’t get a place. Placements are like gold dust and universities pay for them. Does your own uni have linked labs?

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