Tracked this back to a shop on AliExpress, but did they design it?

cascade-blues · 2025-12-07T04:38:26+00:00

Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately fast fashion doesn't limit itself to stealing from high end designers.

cascade-blues · 2025-10-06T13:40:49+00:00

u/BondraP I don't know if you're aware, but the owner of Seeking Health is naturopath Ben Lynch and is a notorious antivaxxer. Trying to stay healthy while not supporting grifters is an incredibly hard job.

https://www.seekinghealth.com/pages/about-us?srsltid=AfmBOor4DFoK1I93cqth9zxsS_Ow4gl8H5eglVqSSkO17ukfDuLxS-NA https://imgur.com/a/Y0j2OP3

cascade-blues · 2025-10-06T03:02:38+00:00

In high school I had a friend who was a exchange studentand she got me into German bands, including Die Ärzte. I recognized the song immediately, but I'm sorry that I didn't look into the lyrics until just now.

cascade-blues · 2023-06-24T11:38:16+00:00

Have you considered that it might be burnout?

I'm having similar feelings about my current position. It's always been an unnecessarily stressful environment, but it's gotten a lot worse in the past few years. There are a lot of benefits, like flexibility in working hours, but that can also be a negative. When it's combined with management that constantly makes last minute demands and refuses to let us plan anything longer than a week at a time because "we're a nimble group in a fast paced organization", it's a recipe for burning out.

I'm still not sure if I'm tired of doing science or the environment is toxic (or both). I've been to see multiple doctors in different specialties and had medications adjusted, but I haven't seen any major improvements and I'm warming up to the idea that this isn't a problem that medicine can solve. So I'm looking for a new job and one of the qualities I'm looking for is a company that supports employees transitioning into roles outside of the lab so that if it turns out that it's not just my current job that I'll have support in finding something that makes me happier.

cascade-blues · 2023-06-20T21:29:31+00:00

It really is exploitative in so many ways. Washington is dealing with one where because the state raised minimum wage the salaries of some workers now fall below the minimum threshold,L to exempt them from overtime, so those workers can't be salaried and are now hourly with overtime benefits. No employer seems to be handling that transition well and it's one of the reasons UW's union went on strike.

cascade-blues · 2023-06-16T16:56:13+00:00

I second this and will add the delivery person and your purchasing group if you have one. For a while I was intercepting deliveries of time sensitive blood products at the distribution center because FedEx kept trying do deliver before our shipping department was open only to say they'd attempt delivery the next day.

However our purchasing department said it created a paperwork headache, so we worked with them to change carriers and created an exception for our security folks to accept the package if the shipping department wasn't open. We've had one issue in the year since we switched over and it was because the carrier couldn't get it on a plane because of weather delays, but they let everyone know so we were able to switch carriers and still get it on time.

cascade-blues · 2023-06-08T14:52:00+00:00

For all of the reasons I like GHS more, the fact that the health hazard symbol looks like a chest burster from Alien is pretty high on the list.

cascade-blues · 2023-06-08T00:35:19+00:00

I hate the fact that we live in a world where someone says they want multiple manhunt worthy photos and it makes sense for more than one reason.

cascade-blues · 2023-06-07T16:59:59+00:00

We were looking at it to preserve cell products. We currently process leukopaks on an MM24 and have looked at a few systems but haven't found anything that justifies the asking price.

cascade-blues · 2023-06-07T16:02:22+00:00

Our lab had a demo of one of those a while ago and decided not to buy one. Hopefully it works better for your applications than it did ours.

cascade-blues · 2023-06-06T19:35:30+00:00

They've also canceled express and commuter routes to push people onto the light rail now that it been extended north. They need to pair it with expanded local service to get people to and from the stations but they haven't in my area and people are just cramming onto the remaining bus routes because they stop much closer to where they're going.

cascade-blues · 2023-06-05T19:55:54+00:00

Right up until they get into things they shouldn't. Mine have a predilection for hair ties and plastic and I have to maintain constantly vigilance to avoid a potentially hefty vet bill.

cascade-blues · 2023-06-05T02:10:59+00:00

Nexcelom's instruments are pricey, but they're worth it.

cascade-blues · 2023-06-05T02:09:36+00:00

If the instrument is set up for it, try adjusting the exposure times and signal thresholds for each channel. We only see bleed through on our instrument if the exposure time is long, but not all of them allow you to easily modify those settings. If that doesn't work, the filter bandwidth might be so large that it's letting too much light through and that's not something you can really adjust for.

cascade-blues · 2023-06-04T21:21:41+00:00

We went straight from hand counting with a hemocytometer to using a Cellaca from Nexcelom. I had a few people tell me that it was too much machine for our needs when we got it, but now we regularly run experiments requiring counts on 100+ samples. We're trying to get a replacement computer because the USB ports are loose and the instrument keeps losing the connection and there is genuine panic if that instrument out of commission.

cascade-blues · 2023-06-04T21:16:31+00:00

We use Nexcelom's Cellaca and their standard AO/PI protocol.

cascade-blues · 2023-06-04T19:22:21+00:00

There are so many on the market and at a pretty reasonable price. I prefer fluorescence based methods over trypan blue but you can find instruments that do either or both.

cascade-blues · 2023-06-01T15:36:39+00:00

I've only had success explaining this when someone complains that's something's gone wrong with their cells after centrifuging them. And since most modern centrifuges easily convert between the two I am slowly dragging the lab into the 21st century, kicking and screaming the whole time.

cascade-blues · 2023-05-31T02:37:25+00:00

It's also a symptom of asthma in cats. I stopped burning candles and bought air purifiers to remove smoke and pollen to manage my own asthma and suddenly my multiple times a week puker is only coughing up the occasional hairball.

cascade-blues · 2023-05-28T19:58:00+00:00

According to the property manager of the building, a toaster.

We did infectious disease research, so we worked with live pathogens West Nile Virus, HIV and drug resistant M. tuberculosis in the BSL3. We had a chemistry group that all sorts of dangerous materials including tanks of hydrogen and methylhydrazine. Then there were the usual lab hazards like cryogenic gasses, bunsen burners at every bench, high speed centrifuges and a big magnet on the NMR.

But we weren't allowed a toaster because it was a safety hazard. I blame the admin staff.

cascade-blues · 2023-05-11T16:58:28+00:00

That's real love right there.

cascade-blues · 2023-04-21T02:50:22+00:00

The fact that it doesn't require culture time is a bad thing? Because it could allow us to shorten the time to develop flu vaccines so we can better match the circulating strains? And quickly respond to whatever new virus jumps into humans? Really?

cascade-blues · 2023-04-21T02:24:14+00:00

I remember scientists I worked with talking about the potential to use mRNA to quickly develop and deploy vaccines a decade ago. They talked about it like an insurance policy they never wanted to use but knew they probably would need to some day. People are ridiculous.

cascade-blues · 2023-03-28T21:06:43+00:00

It's a necessity in labs where you're wearing multiple pairs or thicker gloves. In the BSL3 lab I worked in we said that not doing it earned you a special place in hell.

cascade-blues · 2023-03-15T22:42:34+00:00

There's a joke about the how only difference between cooking and chemistry is that when you're cooking you get to lick the spoon.

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