#lablife — Public Fediverse posts

We don't only do #science 🧬
We also go on hikes and prepare amazing buffets ⛰️🍲
#labretreat #lablife

We don't only do #science 🧬
We also go on hikes and prepare amazing buffets ⛰️🍲
#labretreat #lablife

I am looking for anti-fatigue mats for my lab. We do primarily organic synthesis with some organometallic work as well, so they need to be solvent-resistant. Flame resistant would be ideal, but seems unlikely. I see a lot for standing desks or warehouses, but fear they will not do well under our conditions. Does anyone have experience? #askfedi #lablife

I am looking for anti-fatigue mats for my lab. We do primarily organic synthesis with some organometallic work as well, so they need to be solvent-resistant. Flame resistant would be ideal, but seems unlikely. I see a lot for standing desks or warehouses, but fear they will not do well under our conditions. Does anyone have experience? #askfedi #lablife

Neues Erlebnis unserer TA: Ein Eppi verschwindet spurlos. Die halbe Belegschaft sucht vom EG bis OG. Ergebnislos. Bis die Forscherin ihren Laborkittel anzieht – und das Eppi durch die Luft fliegt ... 👉 https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3524.php
#Laboralltag #TA #LabLife

Neues Erlebnis unserer TA: Ein Eppi verschwindet spurlos. Die halbe Belegschaft sucht vom EG bis OG. Ergebnislos. Bis die Forscherin ihren Laborkittel anzieht – und das Eppi durch die Luft fliegt ... 👉 https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3524.php
#Laboralltag #TA #LabLife

Edit: Solved! By the continually impressive @SRLevine !

Does anyone know the specs for the Viton o-rings use in 11/25 plugs for separatory funnels? I'm looking for ID and OD. If you have the exact McMaster-Carr number, that'd be great. Trying to save a few buck by avoiding ChemGlass or a similar reseller. #chemistry #askfedi #lablife

Edit: Solved! By the continually impressive @SRLevine !

Does anyone know the specs for the Viton o-rings use in 11/25 plugs for separatory funnels? I'm looking for ID and OD. If you have the exact McMaster-Carr number, that'd be great. Trying to save a few buck by avoiding ChemGlass or a similar reseller. #chemistry #askfedi #lablife

#ThrowbackThurday to the late 80’s safety posters that were still up when I started grad school in the last year of the 90’s. Saved this one to put up outside my own lab.
#chemistry #lablife #vintage #yikes

#ThrowbackThurday to the late 80’s safety posters that were still up when I started grad school in the last year of the 90’s. Saved this one to put up outside my own lab.
#chemistry #lablife #vintage #yikes

#ThrowbackThurday to the late 80’s safety posters that were still up when I started grad school in the last year of the 90’s. Saved this one to put up outside my own lab.
#chemistry #lablife #vintage #yikes

#ThrowbackThurday to the late 80’s safety posters that were still up when I started grad school in the last year of the 90’s. Saved this one to put up outside my own lab.
#chemistry #lablife #vintage #yikes

#ThrowbackThurday to the late 80’s safety posters that were still up when I started grad school in the last year of the 90’s. Saved this one to put up outside my own lab.
#chemistry #lablife #vintage #yikes

Problem: the pockets have ripped out on your lab coat.

Me (boring, lazy): Safety pins!

My student (creative, motivated): Sew it up and add awesome embroidery!

#lablife #chemistry #craft #sewing #embroidery #jellyfish

Problem: the pockets have ripped out on your lab coat.

Me (boring, lazy): Safety pins!

My student (creative, motivated): Sew it up and add awesome embroidery!

#lablife #chemistry #craft #sewing #embroidery #jellyfish

„Ich hab das #Experiment fünfmal gemacht. Es klappt einfach nicht.“ – Unser neuer "Forscher-Ernst" über die #Replikationskrise und die Tücken wissenschaftlicher Publikationen 🧪😅, hier komplett: https://www.laborjournal.de/blog/?p=14974
#Reproducibility #LabLife #LabComic #ScienceComic

„Ich hab das #Experiment fünfmal gemacht. Es klappt einfach nicht.“ – Unser neuer "Forscher-Ernst" über die #Replikationskrise und die Tücken wissenschaftlicher Publikationen 🧪😅, hier komplett: https://www.laborjournal.de/blog/?p=14974
#Reproducibility #LabLife #LabComic #ScienceComic

Turns out the probably 10-15 year old 20 L drum of THF that seems to have never been opened but still looks to be no more than 1/2 full is, in fact, peroxide free! #realtimechem #lablife

Turns out the probably 10-15 year old 20 L drum of THF that seems to have never been opened but still looks to be no more than 1/2 full is, in fact, peroxide free! #realtimechem #lablife

Carbelim Lab focuses on sustainable innovation through biochar production, carbon solutions, and climate technology to support environmental sustainability.

#Carbelim #LabLife #Innovation #Sustainability #Biochar #ClimateTech

Carbelim Lab focuses on sustainable innovation through biochar production, carbon solutions, and climate technology to support environmental sustainability.

#Carbelim #LabLife #Innovation #Sustainability #Biochar #ClimateTech

Thousands apply, few are selected. This article highlights key missteps in PhD applications and interviews, and how to avoid them to increase your chances.

🔗
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04128-8

#GraduateSchool #PhDPreparation #AcademicSuccess #ScienceCareers #LabLife

LAB CHRONICLE #26
– Shoot cancelled –

Scenario: caffeinated Leidenfrost demo.
Ambition: Nobel Prize (or just a viral post).
Reality: smell of burnt coffee, empty fire extinguisher, not a single gram of coffee left.

Conclusion:
Science also means knowing when to stop filming, right before the smoke ruins the shot.
But more importantly, it's realizing too late that we sacrificed all the coffee… for that.

#BehindTheExperiment #CoffeeSacrifice #NobelDreams #ChaosUnderControl #LabLife

PCR machine throwing errors of corrupted memory and power issues. Sigh. Is that a battery-powered RTC in there? Yup! Hopefully that’s the issue. #lablife

PCR machine throwing errors of corrupted memory and power issues. Sigh. Is that a battery-powered RTC in there? Yup! Hopefully that’s the issue. #lablife

#Methoden
„mix well“, „mix a few times“, „pipet 3 times up and down“ – vage Angaben in Protokollen stehen der #Reproduzierbarkeit von Ergebnissen im Weg. Bioingenieur Michael King von der Rice University hat nun ein #Mischungsmodell entwickelt, das eine exakte Beschreibung des Mischvorgangs verspricht. Doch ist dieses – teils mit ChatGPT entwickelte – Modell den Laborrealitäten gewachsen? Andrea Pitzschke hat ihre Zweifel: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3435.php

#Laborjournal #LifeSci #LabLife #Pipettieren

#Methoden
„mix well“, „mix a few times“, „pipet 3 times up and down“ – vage Angaben in Protokollen stehen der #Reproduzierbarkeit von Ergebnissen im Weg. Bioingenieur Michael King von der Rice University hat nun ein #Mischungsmodell entwickelt, das eine exakte Beschreibung des Mischvorgangs verspricht. Doch ist dieses – teils mit ChatGPT entwickelte – Modell den Laborrealitäten gewachsen? Andrea Pitzschke hat ihre Zweifel: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3435.php

#Laborjournal #LifeSci #LabLife #Pipettieren

LAB CHRONICLE #23
-Post-it Found on the Camera-

“Approximate framing = approximate science”
→ My camera is judging me.

#LabLife #BehindTheExperiment #PrecisionMatters #PostItWisdom #ScientificIrony

#Biobusiness
Das Start-up #Ymolution entwickelt synthetische Nano-Antikörper mittels Sporen-Oberflächen-Display. Damit umgehen die Gründer nicht nur Schwächen herkömmlicher Hybridom- oder Phagenverfahren, sondern schaffen auch eine neue Dimension funktionaler Vielfalt sowie eine deutlich reduzierte Produktionszeit. Was das mit Alpakas zu tun hat? - Im Artikel von Tobias Ludwig: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3421.php

#Laborjournal #LifeSciences #OpenScience #AntibodyEngineering #Vegan #LabLife #Greifswald

#Biobusiness
Das Start-up #Ymolution entwickelt synthetische Nano-Antikörper mittels Sporen-Oberflächen-Display. Damit umgehen die Gründer nicht nur Schwächen herkömmlicher Hybridom- oder Phagenverfahren, sondern schaffen auch eine neue Dimension funktionaler Vielfalt sowie eine deutlich reduzierte Produktionszeit. Was das mit Alpakas zu tun hat? - Im Artikel von Tobias Ludwig: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3421.php

#Laborjournal #LifeSciences #OpenScience #AntibodyEngineering #Vegan #LabLife #Greifswald

🎳 Bowling break at the #LeidenForce Winter School! PhD students, postdocs, speakers & the team had fun.

💡 Can you guess the participants behind these team names… or spot the winners?

Hint: they’re pairs! 🏆

#LeidenForce #WinterSchool #Leidenfrost #TeamSpirit #LabLife #ScienceFun

Day 4 morning – last lectures at #LeidenForce Winter School: David Paulovics @utwente on impinging Leidenfrost jets, Alexis Duchesne from Université de Lille on levitated liquid tori & star-shaped drops. Experiments & curiosity!

#LeidenForce #Leidenfrost #DropletPhysics #FluidMechanics #PhysicsExperiments #LabLife

Expedition 501 has transitioned from sea to shore. With 718 sediment cores recovered, nearly 873 m of core material, and >50,000 L of fluids, the science teams are now focused on sampling and analysis at MARUM. 🧪📊 Latest Blog:
🔗 https://expedition501.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/scientists-descend-on-marum-as-expedition-501-enters-its-onshore-phase/
#Exp501 #LabLife #ECORDScienceOperator #IODP3NSF #Exp501 #ScientificOceanDrilling

@epc_leicester @ANZIC @MARUM

Expedition 501 has transitioned from sea to shore. With 718 sediment cores recovered, nearly 873 m of core material, and >50,000 L of fluids, the science teams are now focused on sampling and analysis at MARUM. 🧪📊 Latest Blog:
🔗 https://expedition501.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/scientists-descend-on-marum-as-expedition-501-enters-its-onshore-phase/
#Exp501 #LabLife #ECORDScienceOperator #IODP3NSF #Exp501 #ScientificOceanDrilling

@epc_leicester @ANZIC @MARUM

#Methode
Seit Jahrzehnten färben EM-Labore ihre Präparate mit hochgiftigem, radioaktivem Uranylacetat. Ein Team vom vom Zentrum für Elektronenmikroskopie der #tugraz hat nun gezeigt: Kaffee-Extrakt bzw. Chlorogensäure können den Kontrast genauso gut steigern – und das „grün“, billig und reproduzierbar.

Details im Artikel von Andrea Pitzschke: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3411.php

#Laborjournal #LifeSciences #LabLife #Färbemittel #molekularbiologie #biotechnologie #laboreffizienz #graz

#Methode
Seit Jahrzehnten färben EM-Labore ihre Präparate mit hochgiftigem, radioaktivem Uranylacetat. Ein Team vom vom Zentrum für Elektronenmikroskopie der #tugraz hat nun gezeigt: Kaffee-Extrakt bzw. Chlorogensäure können den Kontrast genauso gut steigern – und das „grün“, billig und reproduzierbar.

Details im Artikel von Andrea Pitzschke: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3411.php

#Laborjournal #LifeSciences #LabLife #Färbemittel #molekularbiologie #biotechnologie #laboreffizienz #graz

Our digital Christmas tree this year is built from squares inspired by performance indicators in our ONT sequencing experiments 🎄📊
In 2025, sequencing output increased substantially — a great way to close the year!

More on the design idea and other news:
https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#tree2025

#OpenScience #Sequencing #DataArt #Christmas #LabLife
@boas_pucker
@samnm

Our digital Christmas tree this year is built from squares inspired by performance indicators in our ONT sequencing experiments 🎄📊
In 2025, sequencing output increased substantially — a great way to close the year!

More on the design idea and other news:
https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#tree2025

#OpenScience #Sequencing #DataArt #Christmas #LabLife
@boas_pucker
@samnm

#SerieErlebnisseeinerTA

Auf der To-do-Liste unserer TA steht für heute: PCR. Aber wo sind nur die Gelschlitten, und warum ist der eine PCR-Arbeitsplatz seit gestern durchgängig besetzt? … Die Auflösung gibt es im Heft 12/2025 oder online im Artikel von Ute Ipe: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3398.php

#laborjournal #lifesciences #kolumne #laborhumor #lablife #pcr #agarosegel #ta

#SerieErlebnisseeinerTA

Auf der To-do-Liste unserer TA steht für heute: PCR. Aber wo sind nur die Gelschlitten, und warum ist der eine PCR-Arbeitsplatz seit gestern durchgängig besetzt? … Die Auflösung gibt es im Heft 12/2025 oder online im Artikel von Ute Ipe: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3398.php

#laborjournal #lifesciences #kolumne #laborhumor #lablife #pcr #agarosegel #ta

#Methode: Wer Bakterien-RNA isoliert, kämpft gegen RNAsen und Zeitverlust. Zwei Mikrobiologen zeigen, wie man den Extraktionsklassiker mit saurem Phenol so tuned, dass mehr und sauberere RNA rauskommt – und das ohne teure Kits. Mehr dazu im Artikel von Andrea Pitzschke: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3393.php

#laborjournal #lifesciences #rna #lablife #mikrobiologie #oldbutgold

#Methode: Wer Bakterien-RNA isoliert, kämpft gegen RNAsen und Zeitverlust. Zwei Mikrobiologen zeigen, wie man den Extraktionsklassiker mit saurem Phenol so tuned, dass mehr und sauberere RNA rauskommt – und das ohne teure Kits. Mehr dazu im Artikel von Andrea Pitzschke: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3393.php

#laborjournal #lifesciences #rna #lablife #mikrobiologie #oldbutgold

#memes #monkey #chemistrymemes #science #lablife #basic #erlenmeyerflask #buret

The equivalence point usually requires drop by drop precision

Ende von fötalem Kälberserum? Team der Universitätsmedizin Greifswald entwickelt #Lyophilisat aus Spender-Thrombozyten: xenofrei, nachhaltig, GMP-ready! Hier im Artikel von Bettina Dupont weiterlesen: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3384.php

#Zellkultur #ForschungDE #LabLife

#Methode: Effizientes Klonieren? Eine Frage der Koordination! Das Open-Source-Tool #CloneCoordinate, entwickelt vom Team um Ben Thuronyi (USA), ist eine Open-Source-Softweare für kollaborative DNA-Konstruktion. Mehr im Laborjournalartikel von Andrea Pitzschke: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3383.php
#SynBio #LabLife

@thuronyi

Today's total time loss to academic/scientific paywalls:

~ 1 hour.

#science #academia #sciencepublishing #paywall #paywalls #openaccesspublishing #OpenAccess #research #lablife

#lablife #PIlife had a tricky conversation I need ( but dread ) to have with the lab members, it took me 3 days to compose and rehearse with a senior PI. Super happy it went well and everyone is onboard and happy to adjust. Having an AF beer on my commute home for this!

https://punnyfunny.com/chemistry-jokes-and-puns

Why did the chemist stop making bad jokes? 👨‍🔬 Because all the good ones argon! 😂

#ChemistryHumor #PunIntended #ScienceJokes #LabLife #NerdyHumor #ChemistryPuns #LOLChemistry #JokesterScientist #LabCoatsAndLaughter"

Does anyone on here have any experience with #refinishing #science #lab benches? Most are #epoxy #resin (very flat and smooth, softer) but some are #phenol (slight textured, harder & lighter). Flinn sells an epoxy product, but I have no idea if it’s any good. Please boost for visibility! #lablife #proflife #chemistry #biology #research #chemiverse

Does anyone on here have any experience with #refinishing #science #lab benches? Most are #epoxy #resin (very flat and smooth, softer) but some are #phenol (slight textured, harder & lighter). Flinn sells an epoxy product, but I have no idea if it’s any good. Please boost for visibility! #lablife #proflife #chemistry #biology #research #chemiverse