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Sam LevineI usually run reaction in an ice water bath with a micro fiber towel under the bath to collect the condensation and avoid getting water all over the stir plate/hood. Today's reaction involved going from 0C to 80C and when I swapped the bath type (ice to lab armor) I forgot to remove the towel.Just got back from lunch and a perfect circle has been melted out of the towel. And I might have glued the glass crystallizing dish to the surface of my nice hot plate with melted plastic (microfiber towel).ARG!!!<a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/LabLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabLife</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chemistry</a>

Getzler Lab at KenyonCollegeOne of my students drew catcetone <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/cat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/acetone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#acetone</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chemistry</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lablife</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/lab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lab</a>

Sam LevineHave you (or a co-worker) built anything non-standard out of lab monkey bars (lattice)? If so I'm interested in descriptions and/or photos!Looking for inspiration for a non-lab project.<a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/LabLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabLife</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chemistry</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/ChemiVerse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChemiVerse</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biology</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/ChemicalBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChemicalBiology</a>

Sam LevineDid I get TFA on my hand or is the tingling in my fingers psychosomatic (or real but caused by something else)?<a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/LabLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabLife</a>

Getzler Lab at KenyonCollegeWe were going through tanks too quickly in the lab, so I made a sign. feel free to use as you wish <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/lab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lab</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lablife</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chemistry</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chemiverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chemiverse</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/smokeythebear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#smokeythebear</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/reminders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reminders</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/gas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gas</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#research</a>

Getzler Lab at KenyonCollegeordered a slightly spicy reagent today <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chemistry</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/matryoshka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#matryoshka</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/NotActuallyExcessivePackaging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NotActuallyExcessivePackaging</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lablife</a>

Getzler Lab at KenyonCollegeI heard peals of laughter spilling out of the lab Friday afternoon. The students were really enjoying getting soap bubbles to fill with mist from subliming dry ice, left over from the -78 bath for the Swern. I love that they are already having so much fun together. That’s already a huge win for me as a mentor. <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/proflife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#proflife</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PUI</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chemistry</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lablife</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/SummerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SummerScience</a>

Sam LevineMe: This stuff is really expensive and I would prefer a version with this other side chain that isn't commercially available. How hard could it be to make?Me after reading the literature: <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chemistry</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/ChemiVerse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChemiVerse</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/LabLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabLife</a>

NeuromatchHey basic scientists! 🚨 We need your help. How do you view public engagement? What gets in the way? Take 12 minutes to tell us: <a href="https://buff.ly/OB5LBP2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://buff.ly/OB5LBP2</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/BasicScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BasicScience</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenScience</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/LabLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabLife</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/ScienceForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceForAll</a>

Sam LevineThe problem with refilling a water jacketed incubator is not having any idea how full it is while you're filling. Maybe it needs 5 minutes! Maybe it needs 30! Maybe you flood the TC room when it over flows!(if someone knows a secret gauge that's standard on incubators, please, please, please, tell me where it is)<a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/LabLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabLife</a>

Michael Emerman<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lablife</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/retirement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retirement</a> This is what 1500 samples of frozen glycerol stocks of plasmid-containing bacteria look like going into autoclave bags. I'm reducing the collection from ~8000 to the most essential ~600 for saving. The lab is slowly clearing out as I send out reagents/notebooks to lab alumni, give away equipment, and throw out/recycle things no one will want. There is so much stuff after 36 years! On July 1, I am an Emeritus Professor.

Sam LevineThings I have done today (as legit parts of my job): helped sweep & mop a really disgusting floor mopped up the mess after we tipped over the bucket of dirty water onto the floor of another room walked a cart across part of campus walked the same cart back with a 20 L can of ethanol met with a person from the machine shop to discuss repurposing some fancy incubator shelves walked a second incubator shelf across part of campus, then back when the machine shop was already closed for the day crawled around on the floor for 1-2 h while threading tubing through weird gaps in paneling and then fitting pipe insulation around the tubing (also splicing some tubing together because I didn't have two long pieces of the right type, and then having to trim ends anyway)(there are probably more things, but I was doing the cleaning first with a grad student and turned to her and went "yeah, this is what it means to have a PhD")<a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/LabLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabLife</a>

doctorambientWait! To export something from PowerPoint at 300 DPI I have to do a change to the windows registry?!!?I knew that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/msoffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#msoffice</a> really sucks, but this is taking it to a whole new fucking level.I usually stay out of their ecosystem, but collaborators...<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fuckMicrosoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fuckMicrosoft</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microsoftOfficeSucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microsoftOfficeSucks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usabilityfailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#usabilityfailure</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fail</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lablife</a>

Royle Lab NewsBecause <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/ScienceIsInternational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceIsInternational</a>, it means that <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/LabSnacksAreInternational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabSnacksAreInternational</a>. Some maple syrup treats from Quebec on the menu for today… <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/LabLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabLife</a>

Getzler Lab at KenyonCollegeHelp me Fedi hive-mind! I have a small amount of mercury-contaminated glassware (an old bubbler) that I need to deal with. I have a vague memory of nitric acid being used, but this UIUC sheet is not in favor. I guess I could treat it like a thermometer and break it up, but that's a lot of glass shard to make and manage. <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/mercury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mercury</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chemistry</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chemiverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chemiverse</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/hazardous_chemicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hazardous_chemicals</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/hazardous_waste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hazardous_waste</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lablife</a> <a href="https://drs.illinois.edu/site-documents/ElementalMercury.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://drs.illinois.edu/site-documents/ElementalMercury.pdf</a>

Sam LevineWhen the results of a reaction are so unexpectedly bad (by NMR) that you have to put an appropriate emoji in the ELN...<a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/LabLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabLife</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chemistry</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/ChemiVerse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChemiVerse</a>

Sam LevineAnyone with a lab balance for larger things (the type you usually weigh 100s of grams on) have a max weight recommendation? We need to buy one and the one we've been using in another lab has a max of 8.2 kg so it only reads in 0.1 g increments and I'd like to go lower so we can get accuracy to 0.01 g, but I don't know what a reasonable max is for most people.<a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chemistry</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biology</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/ChemiVerse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChemiVerse</a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/LabLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabLife</a>

Ste CookEvidently more than one species of bacterium in this soil culture plate but it’s a very pretty fail. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bacteria</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/petridishart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#petridishart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lablife</a>

Getzler Lab at KenyonCollegeI cannot explain quite how comforting it is to hear the nitrogen boiling from the traps in the Schlenk line while I watch boiling solvent being stripped from a reaction. Just feels like all is right with the world for a moment when endothermic and exothermic processes occur just as they should. In related news, made sooooo much catalyst today. <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/lablife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lablife</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chemistry</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chemiverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chemiverse</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/pui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pui</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/proflife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#proflife</a>

Dom SommaThat's all for this year, have a nice break! <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/LabLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabLife</a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/HappyHolidays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HappyHolidays</a>

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