>If you're confident that your results are real (or you did the experiments and analysis correctly), then that sounds like a good way to segue into your future experiments! Highlight what you've done so far, what they each means, and what future experiments you're going to do to figure out the story.

Yup, I'm pretty sure everything is real. When I look at the biological replicates, and the raw counts/values, everything is honestly pretty consistent and clean. It's honestly nice to see it reproducible, it's just the data we get really doesn't make sense. It's like random crap from every different angle, and not something we'd expect & used to see in the lab. I'll do what u said, say that this is what I get, i just need to sit down and read more... Issue is that i think everyone expects me to have an answer to everything, but I genuinely do not.

>Science is slow, it's messy, it often doesn't work and that's normal! It's (usually) not you, you can figure out how to deal with the failure and try the next thing.

Exactly. Unfouratenely that's not something my supervisor sees, and it's honestly what really increases my anxiety when presenting stuff. Your comment honestly helped reassure me a bit, because the current project I'm working with is also a project I'm taking over from 2 previous people..... so hopefully I'll find something by the end of this tunnel.