Yo, it's Sky.

22 and still a total square. I really like ✨science✨ ...and coffee. Senior studying biochemistry at UC Berkeley.

[badsciencejokes]

Get me this teachers email address. I want to thank him for his service — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/3019X4c

[cancerbiophd]

01.24.19 // this has been a very productive week! 

top row - harvesting RNA and DNA and prepping for that one qPCR i complained about that contained way more math than necessary (also in bottom right pic; and yes, I did use a calculator to double check that 0.33 x 3 = 0.99 ok i have very little confidence in my mental math)

bottom row - left: running my first western blot of the year! hellloo my pretties! middle: how do you clean ~5 years worth of hematoxylin, methyl green, and TRAP stain residue from a flask? so far we’ve tried a few things and they haven’t worked but at least it looks pretty! 

[iwontdancenetwork]

[iwontdancenetwork]

“Slip” by Elliot Moss | Choreography by Phillip Chbeeb & Renee Kester

Concept/Choreography: Phillip Chbeeb & Renee Kester

[labphoto]

Filtration of manganese dioxide from an oxidation that used potassium permanganate as an oxidant. 

The characteristic purple color of the remaining small amount of permanganate is seen in the filtrate. Even through only a small amount remained from the original amount it still has a quite intense color.  Important to note that contact with skin will result in a long lasting pinkish/purple stain.

Did you know that potassium permanganate is used extensively in the water treatment industry? It is used to disinfect drinking water and it can turn the water pink in some cases. 

[bewareofchickens-deactivated202]

[sweet-bitsy]

I had no idea that chickens could?? float?? or swim??? I don’t know why I’ve never thought of chickens as buoyant. I never picture chickens anywhere near water. what else have I been missing

[taopopop]

C'est les swimming poules

[amoebasisters]

Envy will get you nowhere, little prokaryote. We can’t all have membrane-bound organelles.

[spaceexp]

Cyclones on the south pole of Jupiter.

via reddit

[terpsikeraunos]

the main piece of advice i have for students is this: learn how to fail and persevere. it is a skill that will help you in life far more than perfect grades. think of failure impersonally. when you fail, you have just eliminated one method that doesn’t work for you, so you need to try a different method in the future. figure out which factors contributed to the undesirable result, and change them. (teachers, advisors, and academic counselors can help you with this if you aren’t sure where to start). i know from personal experience that fear of failure is often a self-fulfilling prophecy, because it leads to self-sabotage. if you can learn not to think of it as an inherent personal flaw, but rather as a strategy that didn’t work for you and can be changed, you will be well-equipped to face the inevitable failures and rejections that are part of life.

[yasminstudin]

*drinks tons of coffee and calls it studying*

[cenchempics]

Dancing droplets

When this water droplet falls and smacks the surface below, it doesn’t just bounce back up. It pirouettes in the air. The droplet gyrates likes this because of the four slits on the surface. Aided by surface tension, these slits guide the droplet to expand into four directions upon impact instead of expanding into all directions evenly. When the droplet contracts as it bounces back up, it follows the curves of the slits, producing the spinning motion. The labs of Xi-Qiao Feng at Tsinghua University and Yanlin Song at the Chinese Academy of Sciences collaborated to research this type of patterned surface, which they made by coating a plate with a super water-repellent polymer 1H, 1H, 2H, 2H-perfluorodecyltrimethoxysilane and then etching in the four slits with ultraviolet light. The researchers hope this surface’s ability to convert translational motion to rotational motion could be used in inkjet printing or potentially to harvest energy from falling raindrops. —Manny Morone

Credit: Nat. Commun. 2019, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08919-2

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[academicssay]

You can have my Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead, and lifeless hands.

[prokopetz]

Level 1: Dude, It’s not that deep

Level 2: It is that deep, but not for the reason it thinks it is

Level 3: Deepness is fake, anyway

Level 4: Regardless of its intentional depth, deepness can be constructed upon it, and as the work exists only in the act of interpretation, this type of deepness cannot meaningfully be distinguished from deepness born of authorial intent

Level 5: Dude, it’s not that deep

[badsciencejokes]

Moo — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2T3Tj4p

[lovelyirony]

my mom has finally understood the concept of how to use “tea” as slang, but only kind of. she came into my room and said “jessie, i have tea today” and i was obviously like what happened but as it turns out she just thinks tea means information so she told me that she got avocadoes on sale. that was the tea. 

[inallofpeculiardom]

Damn RIGHT that’s the tea

[badsciencejokes]

You’re not 0K — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2T1BnaK

[nursealik]

Baby Hand Bones

[badsciencejokes]

It is — view on Instagram http://bit.ly/2UpJPMT