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ErrantScience

Of course the overall likelihood is negligible BUT if it did happen it's going to be random chance

Joe

@errantscience that reminds me of a phdcomic about lab accidents

azzavulp

@errantscience Something something surface luck area, though.

ErrantScience

Nothing like someone picking apart your data not realising how much is balanced on top of it... #Jenga

ErrantScience

Scientists are drawn to dangerous experiments like a toddler is drawn to live wires, boiling water and open roads

sollat

@errantscience
Accurate. The “No” usually occurs after the second attempt though. Definitely for scientists, but probably also for toddlers.

Alt Text for OP image:
Cartoon of a Venn diagram with two circles. The circle on the left is labeled “Lab Health & Safety”. The circle on the right is labeled “A Tired Parent”. The overlap between the circles is labeled “Constantly Saying No to Overexcited People Trying to Kill Themselves”.

#ALT4you

@errantscience
Accurate. The “No” usually occurs after the second attempt though. Definitely for scientists, but probably also for toddlers.

Alt Text for OP image:
Cartoon of a Venn diagram with two circles. The circle on the left is labeled “Lab Health & Safety”. The circle on the right is labeled “A Tired Parent”. The overlap between the circles is labeled “Constantly Saying No to Overexcited People Trying to Kill Themselves”.

J. David Eisenberg

@errantscience #AltText4You

Two-circle Venn Diagram. One circle is labeled “Lab health & safety”, the other is labeled “A tired parent”. The intersection is labeled “Constantly saying _no_ to overexcited people trying to kill themselves”

OddOpinions5

@errantscience

In 1985, I was a 1st year Baby PhD student and when I got to the lab, there was this dirty beyond belief fume hood and an ancient setup for distillation that was used to re distill

PHENOL

and I was told the 1st job of every new grad student was to redistill a new lot of phenol

LOL

ErrantScience

I calculate my timesheets using the advanced formula called RAND()... because MADEUP() isn't a function in Excel

ErrantScience

This is one of our most popular cartoons which we're sharing for the end of Pride Month, we've also got some new pride cartoons which we'll share next month because we love pride all the time 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #PrideMonth #Pride

ErrantScience

If you work in cell biology, you need to come to terms with a lot of death... most of it your fault

ErrantScience

Too many existing science products run on operating systems older than some of the researchers using them, update your software companies!

Smart Fox

@errantscience i get the pain, but think about it.

No Internet required, no forced updates, security vulnerabilities for everyone.
Who would deny that deal?

OddOpinions5

@errantscience

In the real world, many small companies don't have the money to upgrade and maintain all these old systems

IF you are using a 20 year+ old system, it is on you to maintain it
IMO

ErrantScience

The real reason that a minute isn't an official SI unit is that it's actually a highly variable length of time. I've been working for 3 days on a job that I was assured would just take a minute

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GLC

@errantscience

Now wait a minute, that can't be right.

Anna Saultron

@errantscience I started counting if someone approaches me with this just takes a minute. Not answering yes or no or okay do just 1, 2, 3, 4 a lot of people totally forget what they wanted.

embix

@errantscience And every once in a while a minute is 61 seconds (or only 59 seconds) long, but we smear them together so you don't notice it. Unless you do.

googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/0

ErrantScience

I really hope no one is learning about separating your chemicals from this cartoon but I've been in enough chemistry labs to know that's unlikely

ErrantScience

The green circle gets significantly smaller every year

ErrantScience

When working in scientific research it's very important to understand your priorities and not lose foc- 🐰

ErrantScience

Is it a growing book debt of shame or am I just in massive book credit 📚

Dom Arbuthnott

@errantscience quite the opposite, unread books are more useful than read ones #umbertoeco

ErrantScience

Not all supervisors follow this flow diagram, some just do the box in the right hand bottom corner

ErrantScience

Titration is a special process that causes you to question the meaning of time and boredom #ResearchLife #Chemistry #Chem

ErrantScience

"Hey can you just run this quick experiment for me before you go home" is the worst email to receive on a Friday afternoon and yet one of the ones I get the most often...

ErrantScience

The amount of explaining you have to do makes it exhausting being an outdoor scientist (cartoon suggested by calebinbetween)

ErrantScience

Your life should be more like a pie and less like an avocado⁠... especially if you're working today!

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Never Getting a Sabbatical

@errantscience "Ideal?" Make "work" half the size and allocate it to "Home."

Dragofix

@errantscience I have four area cookie: Home / sleep / gardening / posting on Mastodon. 😁

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