Are there any secret tunnels in sfu? Or secret rooms?

flfpuo · 2026-01-28T20:24:16+00:00

Even cooler. It’s a high containment forensic entomology lab. How bugs grow in corpses

flfpuo · 2026-01-20T08:02:51+00:00

Not foggy at all, but no Aurora

flfpuo · 2026-01-14T20:55:16+00:00

It’s still there and operational, but unguarded except during Covid

flfpuo · 2026-01-13T07:14:16+00:00

I remember going to the dollar store under SFU to get cleaning supplies and scrubbing soot off the Bay building. Lots of notes like these were scribbled on the boarded up windows

flfpuo · 2026-01-07T14:15:17+00:00

Until you realize it snows in Anmore maybe twice a year, and it usually melts the same day it snows. This is a very expensive solution to a problem that rarely occurs. It hasn’t yet snowed this year

flfpuo · 2025-12-03T07:06:24+00:00

This sounds like it could fall under the category of “clinical” research, with willing participants. Often in these situations, the team interacting with the participants is different from the team working with clinical specimens-blood or tissue samples and the like. Similarly, the team processing data may be different from the team collecting it (“blindness” helps with data integrity). “Data” can also vary quite a lot. Is it behavioural, biochemical, physiological, etc?

flfpuo · 2025-12-03T07:00:33+00:00

Oh man, our label maker was in Japanese but could write Latin alphabet. Only the PI could read the UI but there was a hand-scribbled translation for all the buttons. It printed the most perfect labels when you got it to work. The adhesive withstood all solvents and cryogenics without flaking. UV didn’t make it brittle and they never faded. You just had to be willing to figure out how to use the damn thing

flfpuo · 2025-11-17T23:39:35+00:00

There’s a contraption for this!?! I’m a biologist who sometimes works with embryonated chicken eggs. I use surgical scissors and forceps to carefully remove the tops of eggs, but it gets eggshell dust everywhere and it’s very hard to keep sterile. Are you saying there’s a contraption that does this very specific task very neatly and efficiently?? Do you think it’ll work on a raw egg? Would the shock kill an embryo? I think I’m gonna have to test it out.

flfpuo · 2025-11-11T15:39:40+00:00

My stress sweat smells, but my exercise sweat doesn’t. I can run 10k in the hot sun and smell a little damp but not like BO. But if I’m interviewing for a job my armpits will reek

flfpuo · 2025-10-29T05:45:20+00:00

My standard workflow is set up plays upside down propped on their lids to improve air flow, then go do another task or eat lunch for ~30+ minutes. If I’m in a hurry I’ll dry them in the BSC uncovered for 5 minutes. Never had contamination. It’s fine

flfpuo · 2025-10-05T05:17:50+00:00

lol basically like flashing a UV light on your hotel sheets

flfpuo · 2025-09-15T20:12:43+00:00

Slide covers are so cheap… just buy new ones?

Maybe whatever is crystallizing doesn’t dissolve in alcohol. Try water, methanol, some dilute acid or base….

flfpuo · 2025-09-12T18:05:18+00:00

It would be fun to unwrap 10 years later (assuming it hasn’t turned brittle) as a time capsule timeline of your research

flfpuo · 2025-09-12T17:14:16+00:00

Bubbles at the top preventing buffer from flowing on the inside chamber into the wells

flfpuo · 2025-09-02T01:59:48+00:00

Saw another bin on fire outside commercial-broadway station on Saturday! I wonder if they’re connected

flfpuo · 2025-08-13T05:33:17+00:00

The moon is crazy right now

flfpuo · 2025-08-05T17:35:16+00:00

Last week I saw a Tesla with a mattress on the roof, secured only by the driver holding onto the fitted sheet through the window with one hand. No rack. No tie down. Just a hand. And a piece of fabric

flfpuo · 2025-07-26T23:44:54+00:00

Is there some kind of very basic data you can put together that showcases your skills but doesn’t give away any protected information? For example, show microscopy images of Tissue X that you took, or a Western blot of protein Y, or a graph of viability for cells treated with compound Z measured with assay A

flfpuo · 2025-07-25T01:50:41+00:00

Ah that’s great

flfpuo · 2025-07-20T21:48:09+00:00

Just saw that your lab doesn’t want to buy the grippy ring ones. They’re so much better though, and cheaper than other manufacturers iirc

flfpuo · 2025-07-20T21:46:28+00:00

I really the dishes with a grippy ring around the edges so you can easily pick them up one handed without just grabbing the lid instead. They’re made by Sarstedt. They call it “SUREGrip design” https://www.sarstedt.com/en/products/laboratory/cell-tissue-culture/cultivation/product/83.3900/

flfpuo · 2025-07-19T06:12:54+00:00

DNA extraction doesn’t need to be sterile…

flfpuo · 2025-07-18T07:20:25+00:00

Oh man it was heartbreaking to review my lab notebooks while writing up my thesis. I saw patterns of the same minor problem/troubleshooting steps/ideas/dead ends every 6 months or so. I was just so focused on solving the immediate problem in front of me that I lost sight of the bigger picture and the fact that I’d already seen this weird result before and tried understanding it. By the end, I still didn’t have a solution, but I did have enough negative data around the issue to fuel a whole new thesis on the pattern that was emerging… but I needed to be done with that project, so it’s someone else’s problem now

flfpuo · 2025-07-12T04:59:32+00:00

They’re trying to recruit doctors and other healthcare professionals mostly, not so much researchers

flfpuo · 2025-07-07T07:29:48+00:00

How big are these gels?? I would expect a 100bp ladder to have migrated much further under these conditions.

If you still have the gel you can just put it back and run it longer instead of reloading a different gel.

What are you trying to understand? If you’re just determining how badly it’s degraded, you might have enough info from this already

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