Bec Does Biomed

PhD student, developmental neurobiologist, worm geek and amateur comic artist. ~instagram~ ~comics~ ~posts~

[plaguedocboi]

I am in the lab sipping test tube substances and critiquing them like fine wine

[figues]

in a year or two some of us will be able to say “i wrote a phd thesis during the apocalypse”

[academicssay]

I am currently away from the office and have intermittent access to email. If your email is not urgent I will in all likelihood still reply within 10 minutes due to ineffective self-regulation and an inability to maintain work-life balance.

[errantscience]

CAFFEINE!

[miss-biophys]

I belong to “Procrastination” and “Taste” groups. 😄

[deactivate-deactivate-deactivate]

Caffeine in the morning and alternative to eating in the afternoon when I can’t get a lunch break

[sosuperawesome]

Anatomical Embroidery

Ambroidering on Etsy

[legogradstudent]

Accomplishing next to nothing, the grad student is still exhausted.

[becdoesbiomed]

if I get one more email, I might just spontaneously combust 

[djfinchyfinch]

Academia is cool and sexy until I’m expected to do work

[huffylemon]

[becdoesbiomed]

It’s burnout hours, my dudes. 

[valtsv]

adulthood is just telling yourself “and after i’ve done THAT i can finally relax” with increasing desperation

[dankmemeuniversity]

[phdstudygirl]

Same...

[theclassicsreader]

is anyone else getting absolutely no work done at all

[farmlesbians]

[becdoesbiomed]

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! At least my worms like me. 

Worm photo credit: ‘Worm Love’ by Maria Ciocca

[macrolit]

“If I am a man of some reading, I am a man of no retention.”

—

“Of Books,”

Michel de Montaigne

[iparisx]

looking @ your experiment results be like