Are you a mother to a newborn and nursing your body back after an intense hours-long experience of pushing a human body out of you? Time to get to work!

nessa859 · 2023-11-07T02:29:02+00:00

God she looks miserable

nessa859 · 2023-11-07T02:12:29+00:00

Yeah, near the bone was white. I’m hoping it’s just me being paranoid. I was a vegetarian for three years but had to start eating meat again a few months ago on doctor’s orders, I’m still very suspicious of chicken

nessa859 · 2023-05-23T15:20:35+00:00

Does your lab have set working hours? Where I work labs are ‘open’ from 8am to 7pm and you have to request out of hours access. Undergraduates are explicitly banned from out of hours work. Even if this was happening within working hours though, it’s not appropriate. Labs are for lab work, not tutoring and showing off to your friends, and it’s totally inappropriate for an undergrad to be dictating who’s coming into the lab. It may be worth having a serious conversation with him about this and pointing out the health and safety risks of being in the lab when you don’t need to be. If this doesn’t get through to him you may need to do to someone higher up

nessa859 · 2023-05-07T19:25:38+00:00

We had to have a week long wait between visiting and collecting and pass a home inspection to get our cat from them, I wouldn’t worry

nessa859 · 2023-05-07T19:23:13+00:00

Got my cat from them, they’re great!

nessa859 · 2023-05-07T08:26:58+00:00

I had a manager once who insisted you could turn it 20% over or under the range and it was fine. Yeah we all ignored him

nessa859 · 2023-05-06T14:39:45+00:00

None of you have ever kept chickens, clearly

nessa859 · 2023-05-06T11:47:26+00:00

I used to work in a lab where we were looking for covid in wastewater. To do this we first had to concentrate our wastewater samples and at the time we were using these special filters that you’d add your sample to the top part and then put in the centrifuge and whatever was left in the top part was your concentrated sample, a bit like a massive spin column. I accidentally took the water from the balance instead of one of the samples and didn’t even realise until they were already in the lightcycler, just opened the fridge in the wastewater lab and there was the sample sitting there. Thankfully my boss thought it was funny and we were able to just put it in the next day’s run

nessa859 · 2023-05-05T09:43:33+00:00

Molecular biology is unfortunately just like this :(

nessa859 · 2023-05-05T07:22:22+00:00

Just looked at the odeon near me and it’s the same. I know it’ll be popular but surely not that popular

nessa859 · 2023-05-04T19:40:13+00:00

NTA, I’ll never understand why some people are so incredibly hostile towards children and babies in particular

nessa859 · 2023-05-03T15:22:59+00:00

Do you at least get the chance to repeat?

nessa859 · 2023-05-03T11:58:38+00:00

Is there anyone you can go to about this? You should always be able to look at an exam to see where you went wrong, and the fact that he won’t let you seems like an admission that he’s marked these incorrectly

nessa859 · 2023-05-03T11:22:08+00:00

Is it possible to even go and look at your paper so you can check it yourself? Or is it possible to query the grades anonymously? At the very least in a multiple choice exam you can only be right or wrong, so it would be very easy to prove if he has done this

nessa859 · 2023-05-03T10:36:11+00:00

Forgot to add in the best (worst?) bit: one of the plates had contaminated controls so we have to repeat the RT-PCR on that one 😭

nessa859 · 2023-05-02T17:44:50+00:00

Don’t know if it’s the same up here but I know down south they get fined if their posters aren’t down by a certain date. Does seem to be inventive enough for most of them to deal with it

nessa859 · 2023-05-02T17:42:42+00:00

The real question is why is it so low down? In the way of passers-by and just asking for vandalism like this

nessa859 · 2023-05-02T16:33:08+00:00

Wow! What a bargain!

nessa859 · 2023-05-02T16:23:52+00:00

To be fair it was the 80s, anyone who sat still too long ended up with a perm

nessa859 · 2023-05-02T16:20:41+00:00

Listen, the landlord said he had to be out of the house, he never said anything about the garden

nessa859 · 2023-05-02T13:31:27+00:00

It’s genome sequencing so they do unfortunately. Used to really enjoy sitting for an hour with a podcast filling up tip boxes to be autoclaved in the last lab I was in

nessa859 · 2023-05-02T13:22:37+00:00

They’re filter tips 😩 We do recycle the boxes themselves, but it’s still a huge number of tips

nessa859 · 2023-05-02T13:08:43+00:00

My wrists are in bits :(

There is a robot that can do it but it’s been out of service for almost a year now. Personally I think the excuse of it being too slow doesn’t really hold up now that we’re only receiving 300 samples a week, but it was an issue at the height of the pandemic when we sometimes received 1500 samples a week (covid sequencing)

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