Today, I was forced to trust a critical part of my data collection to a total idiot who, naturally, F’d it all up. I’ve lost 2yr & >$18,000.FMT
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marinebiologist
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starz
Today, I received the review for my article. I spent the last 2 years replicating the results of my study. The reviewers now want me to do a third replication. FMT
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stupidthesis
Today, I was afraid to ask the technician in my lab to help me with my samples. He is supposed to help the predocs with their experiments but he gets mad every time we ask him something. FMT
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PhDstudent
Today, I had to wait 40 minutes for my computer to start and when I tried to access my data the server was down. It’s like this every other day. FMT
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Suso
Today, it’s been a year since I presented my thesis. Now, with no job and no goal in life, I miss when I was my doing my PhD. FMT
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Lifebehindacow
Today, my boss asked for my my help collecting blood; 18 hr days, outside, snowing, -10 w/30mph winds. He texts, “Glad it isn’t me!” FMT
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Steven
Today, our “visiting researcher” closed my data acquisition program to check his email. That sample took me 45+ lab hours to make & is lost now.
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WastedLife
Today, I’m a few months from finishing up my study and graduating, and my advisor hands me a paper published last month. It’s the same study. FMT
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LabRat
Today, I am sitting in the lab and I have a cold and am strung out on cold medicine. But I have to check sequence data as it comes in. FMT
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Waityourturn
Today, a labmate just ran a 1” thick, 8.5”x12” 1% gel for a 50uL PCR sample. There’s no more agarose for my samples. He’s also a postdoc. FMT
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Labrat
Today, I asked a labmate I had been borrowing buffers from for acid to adjust pH. Response: “Aren’t they always at the right pH when you make them”. FMT
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Spatzem
Today, my turkish labmate asked if I wanted some of his “turkish delight”. It turns out he wasn’t talking about candy. FMT
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Suso
Today, I’ve been going to the hospital everyday for two years to collect samples. I didnt’ start analyzing them yet. FMT
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doc2b
Today, my mentor said he’s ready to submit my paper and wants me to look over his edits ASAP. I wrote it 2.5 years ago! FMT
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Incognito
Today, I just realised that I left my western blot incubating in primary antibody in the cold room for 5 days!!! FMT
