I had more to say, but basically the important thing is this ( Read more... )

It has been a wretchedly long, cranky day.

Started super early. Got worse when I found that some jackass a colleague left the door to one of the -20C freezers open overnight, possibly over the weekend, thawing thousands of dollars worth of reagents. Because the emails I've sent (four in the last six weeks) reminding all lab members to close the ( Read more... )

Dear jackasses with whom I work colleagues ( Read more... )

Dear Post-Doc Who's Been Here For A Few Months:

Thanks for suggesting that I try to stain endogenous levels of my target protein via indirect immunofluorescence. It's only been my project for seven years, so obviously I would not have considered that without your advice. Or have tried with seven different antibodies and five different cell lines. ( Read more... )

I make plenty of writing mistakes. But here are three things that made me close Firefox last night and return to a book instead of reading fanfic ( Read more... )