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Kira<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/teaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#teaching</a> at an uni: yesterday we had a power outage in the lab during a practical course. We checked everything twice, called supervisors, called an electrician. Then I noticed that one of the students had put a cable on a heating plate and it melted 🫠 They had the nerve to ask if that meant we wouldn't finish on time. . . . <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PhDlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PhDlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PhDstudent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PhDstudent</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#lablife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#academia</a>

TechGeeksApparelWelcome to the Science Dept. This is where we question everything, test our theories, and occasionally blow stuff up (in a controlled environment, of course).🔗 <a href="https://techgeeksapparel.com/science-dept-t-shirt/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://techgeeksapparel.com/science-dept-t-shirt/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TeamScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TeamScience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/STEMSquad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#STEMSquad</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceTeacher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceTeacher</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LabLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabLife</a>

TechGeeksApparelMessy hair, stained lab coat, suspiciously singed eyebrows… Yep, you must be a scientist.🔗 <a href="https://techgeeksapparel.com/funny-science-shirt/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://techgeeksapparel.com/funny-science-shirt/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LabLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabLife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceGeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceGeek</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/STEMHumor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#STEMHumor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MadScientistVibes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MadScientistVibes</a>

Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸<a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23lablife" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lablife</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23science" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23bioinformatics" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bioinformatics</a> The kids are ok

KiraIt's the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/teaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#teaching</a> time of the year. I supervise seminars and a practical course in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#chemistry</a> for medical students <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PhDlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PhDlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#academia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phd" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#phd</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/universityteaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#universityteaching</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#chemistry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#lablife</a>

KiraLifting weights is a part of my job. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#academia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phd" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#phd</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PhDlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PhDlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#lablife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/microbiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#microbiology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phdchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#phdchat</a>

KelsieDoing my prep for next week's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microbiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microbiology</a> lab today. I have made and sterilized SO many different types of broths and tubes of broth. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lablife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biologylife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biologylife</a>

Getzler Lab at KenyonCollegeHelp me Fedi hive-mind! I have a small amount of mercury-contaminated glassware (an old bubbler) that I need to deal with. I have a vague memory of nitric acid being used, but this UIUC sheet is not in favor. I guess I could treat it like a thermometer and break it up, but that's a lot of glass shard to make and manage. <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/mercury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mercury</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chemistry</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chemiverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chemiverse</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/hazardous_chemicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hazardous_chemicals</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/hazardous_waste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hazardous_waste</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lablife</a> <a href="https://drs.illinois.edu/site-documents/ElementalMercury.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://drs.illinois.edu/site-documents/ElementalMercury.pdf</a>

KelsieBehold the altar of the liver and the gallbladder. All bow down before it. (It doesn't have to make sense, just roll with it.) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lablife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sciencefun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sciencefun</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sciencefunnys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sciencefunnys</a>

Julie ClergetDancing robot | Part of the "Beauty and the Machine" research project supported by the BeLEARN hub, this whimsical take on the well-known Thymio reimagines digital education and programming.[More about this <a href="https://social.epfl.ch/@CenterLEARN" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@CenterLEARN</a>]<a href="https://social.epfl.ch/tags/EducationalRobotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EducationalRobotics</a> <a href="https://social.epfl.ch/tags/DigitalEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalEducation</a> <a href="https://social.epfl.ch/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Research</a> <a href="https://social.epfl.ch/tags/arts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#arts</a> <a href="https://social.epfl.ch/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://social.epfl.ch/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lablife</a> <a href="https://social.epfl.ch/tags/CameraRoll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CameraRoll</a>

KiraLiquid nitrogen soup (contains tubes with cells) . . . <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/microbiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#microbiology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/biochemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#biochemistry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#lablife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phdlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#phdlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#academia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PhDstudent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PhDstudent</a>

KelsieMystery in the lab... So, I inoculated a Sabouraud Dextrose Agar plate with a moldy, gluten-free muffin for a microbiology lab. I was simply tired of the slightly boring bread mold. Well, this is what I got... two absolutely fascinating, completely different colonies. The one with a filamentous form may be paenibacillus, and I have no idea what the other is. I believe it is a bacteria that released some pigments into the agar to make it so dark. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lablife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microbiologymysteries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microbiologymysteries</a>

KiraA flask with a sense of fashion. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/microbiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#microbiology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/biochemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#biochemistry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#lablife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PhDlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PhDlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/laboratory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#laboratory</a>

KiraWork-Life Balance but you work in the lab:I: plan the experiment according to the protocol Bacteria : well actually we need 10-15 hours to grow depending on mood 😉 and you have to check on us every couple of hours. Also you have to spend another 2 hours working on us afterwards 😊 no guarantee we don't die though 🤭 . . . . . . <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/biochemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#biochemistry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PhDlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PhDlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PhDstudent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PhDstudent</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#lablife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#academia</a>

Sam LevineWhen the results of a reaction are so unexpectedly bad (by NMR) that you have to put an appropriate emoji in the ELN...<a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/LabLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabLife</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chemistry</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/ChemiVerse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChemiVerse</a>

Getzler Lab at KenyonCollegeIf you had to formylate a 2° alcohol at ~5-10 g scale (no other reactive functionality on the molecule), what method would you choose? I am more concerned about reagent reactivity or toxicity than cost as I'd like to have relatively inexperienced undergrads do it. <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chemistry</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/synthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#synthesis</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/askfedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#askfedi</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lablife</a>

Sam LevineAnyone with a lab balance for larger things (the type you usually weigh 100s of grams on) have a max weight recommendation? We need to buy one and the one we've been using in another lab has a max of 8.2 kg so it only reads in 0.1 g increments and I'd like to go lower so we can get accuracy to 0.01 g, but I don't know what a reasonable max is for most people.<a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chemistry</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biology</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/ChemiVerse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChemiVerse</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/LabLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabLife</a>

Ste CookEvidently more than one species of bacterium in this soil culture plate but it’s a very pretty fail. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bacteria</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/petridishart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#petridishart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lablife</a>

Dave nλ=2dsinθHow to be a brilliant ally to your neurodivergent lab mate.I haven't listened to this yet, but it's important that Nature are covering this. <a href="https://xtaldave.net/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://xtaldave.net/tags/LabLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabLife</a><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00125-z" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00125-z</a>

Getzler Lab at KenyonCollegeI cannot explain quite how comforting it is to hear the nitrogen boiling from the traps in the Schlenk line while I watch boiling solvent being stripped from a reaction. Just feels like all is right with the world for a moment when endothermic and exothermic processes occur just as they should. In related news, made sooooo much catalyst today. <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lablife</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chemistry</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chemiverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chemiverse</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/pui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pui</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/proflife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#proflife</a>

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