I’ve gotten 2 skin burns from chemicals with a nitrile glove breakthrough time of <1 second

underfunded undergrad lab classes without heavy duty gloves shouldn’t be allowed to use fuming nitric acid >:(

I tried scrambling an egg using the vortexer (it didn’t work)

I rarely arrived at the lab before 10am as an undergrad intern. (And usually stayed until 7–8pm because I goofed around too much and it took forever to get all the cells taken care of 🫠)

Flexible schedules are a luxury I miss dearly

we used Macs at my last lab

I hated them because I’m a Linux nerd but at least they were reliable

(I suppose if my research PC ran Linux I’d spend all my time configuring it instead of researching…!)

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I currently hate my body and don’t feel comfortable dating until I like it again, as dating involves finding others who like your body (and other things about you, but still)

I’m sure there are people who would want to date me in my current body as well as my future (hopefully improved) body, but I just can’t summon any confidence while I feel like this.

Obviously there’s some mental health problems I need to work on too. I’m fortunate to have decent psychiatric care at this stage in my life and am slowly progressing in that area, and trying my damnedest to ramp up body improvement efforts.

I went to the gym today, at least. :)

I actually use a decade old version of this to control a very expensive machine at work which is simultaneously surreal and validating of all the time I wasted spent learning linux from my teens onward

the Alabama diaper wipe

I’m just a standard issue neurodivergent chick haha

wait shit I forgot there are no girls on the internet uhhhhhhh. SPORTS. FAST CARS. YEAH

When unloading the dishwasher’s silverware rack, just take the whole thing out and unceremoniously dump it out onto a towel on the counter. Makes a ruckus but beats taking flatware out one by one while bent over the dishwasher.

Also, pick up all of the same size fork or spoon, then hold them loosely while shaking your hands and they’ll naturally align into their proper nested position. Actually lots of identically shaped things will do this when gently shaken. I used to align nerf darts vertically in a bucket like this as a kid

one’s environment can have a pretty big impact on what one eats and how often one gets to move

Both details and fundamentals. And when the fundamentals get questioned things get dramatic. In like, an irritating way that reminds me of religious zealotry, uuuuuuugh

The "where is 95% of all the mass!?" seems a bit more dramatic in the grand scheme of things though, damn.

I witnessed grown adults outright bully teenage and young adult interns and grad students for presenting solid evidence that challenges paradigms (you know, like how we advance our understanding of science…?) but I can’t imagine it’s much better if everyone regardless of experience is just staring into a void of conflicting observations and nobody knows what the fuck any of it means

I respect Bunsenlabs for lacking the chaotic instability that I loved to hate about Crunchbang in high school, and which I hate to wish I could love as a busy adult requiring a stable system…

CrunchBang was my jam in late high school. I couldn’t believe how much more lightweight it was compared to Lubuntu, which had been my main for years due to having a potato laptop

I’m currently in the medical field but “IT” is one of my nicknames 💀 every new place I work I try to hide it but I just impulsively fix shit and then end up being expected to fix shit

energy is what scientists never have enough of and its existence is enabled purely by being able to observe yourself not having enough of it

bacteria and some others, preparing for horizontal gene transfer: “im about to ruin man(kind)'s whole career”

am biologist who used to work in phylogenetics lab

there is a lot of fucking mystery

put it towards a train ticket to visit the fam :)

“vaccine Georg is an outlier and should not have been coubted”