Science, bitch

[unworms]

it’s the last day of mermay so have some Pearls

[justnoodlefishthings]

honestly fuck viruses they’re not even alive they’re just strands of punk ass DNA that go around fucking up us normal and god fearing life forms you don’t even have a nucleus you stupid bacteriophage looking horizontally transmitting RNA clump

[astronomicalwonders]

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let them live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”   ~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos

[topshotpicks]

[justlabthings]

when someone still doesn't think prions are real

[bellaxiao]

[molecularbiologistproblems]

Dude, we’re already in the G2 phase!!!

[labphoto]

Just a typical organic reaction. 

At the beginning it had a normal color (anything between colorless and black), then I added a catalyst and the whole reaction mixture turned black in less than a minute. 

Goal: isolate a colorless crystalline compound in the highest yield from the black gunk what is in the flask.

[justlabthings]

Scientist: *nucleofects a cell*

Hacker voice: I'm in

[justlabthings]

when working sterile and getting the worst nose itch in your life

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[justlabthings]

The sheer terror of realizing someone forgot to balance the centrifuge.

I heard rumors of these giant ones that have to be cemented to the ground because if you don't balance them right they will "run away" and destroy a lab in a matter of minutes

[justlabthings]

The burette stopcock malfunctioning right before you hit the titration endpoint.

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[justlabthings]

Trying to label tiny tubes with dying Sharpies

[justlabthings]

sprinting to lab at 2 in the morning because the -80 died

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[justlabthings]

When the hot plate knob is a scale of 1-10 instead of a Celsius measurement.

#thanksthermofisher

[justlabthings]

When you think you're having a stroke after finding out the microscope crashed overnight and destroyed your 79 positions

[justlabthings]

When you have to wait thirty minutes for a solution to reflux, add half a mL of solution, and continue and repeat for three hours.

I remember these days