Our favorite four posts about life in science, not the literature.
Four posts, zero papers, one roll of pink tape.
By Ed Rybicki (@edrybicki.bsky.social) · Bluesky
My take: Points for never dropping a rack again. But anything that needs ice is now slow-cooking at 37 degrees against your chest, and that’s one bench disaster traded for a quieter one in the gel.
By Chenxin Li (@chenxinli2.bsky.social) · Bluesky
My take: Submit it this week. The gap between ‘we have the data’ and ‘one more experiment’ has swallowed entire postdocs, and the reviewers will ask for the extra panel either way.
By Edan Foley (@edanfoley.bsky.social) · Bluesky
My take: Eight finals. I stopped trusting the word by _final_03 and started naming them after the day each one betrayed me.
By Luci Ferin (@luci-ferase.bsky.social) · Bluesky
My take: Why are the exciting experiments always labeled with pink tape and all my failed PCR products are in beige?
That’s the four. See you tomorrow morning.
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