#lab fails

[phdeeznutz]

Hit the wrong button when my peak started coming off the column. Should I just kill myself?

[cosmicloveless]

it took me an hour and a half to calibrate three pipettes and i hate everything

[phdeeznutz]

Just had my biggest lab incident yet. Thermal runaway of an NaH reaction, cue billowing smoke, tar everywhere, a prompt smack of the emergency purge button and a rather pissed off post doc. Feel like a fucken eejit but in all honesty it could've been worse. At least there was no fire, or explosion. Will make for a for a very awkward meeting with my supervisor next week tho.

The 5 kilos of ice required to quench the thing... and I think the bucket is totalled.

[phdeeznutz]

And on the left, we have an excellent demonstration of what happens when you forget to do an air sensitive reaction under nitrogen.

[juvia-is-my-spirit-animal]

Lab mate: Just use this bottle to autoclave the water

Me: are we sure it can be autoclaved?

Lab mate: ya it's nalgene and PPE

It was not PPE 🤣🤣🤣

[iamthetruenhaz]

I fucked up too many times and my supervisor, who has been extremely helpful and understanding up to this point, stopped caring and only discusses stuff with his other student... I feel like the fallen apprentice of every “good master, good apprentice, evil apprentice“ story.

[verbigeratingidiolalia]

WHEN YOU FUCK UP A BRADFORD ASSAY.😤😩😡