Letterkenny goes to college
Yesterday evening my son told me that he'd noticed a small, inobtrusive sticker on his lab partner's laptop that said, "Pitter-patter." So of course we started trying to figure out the best way to introduce Letterkenny-style dialogue into a biology lab. After several iterations we hit on a call-and-response improv:
"ReCORDin' the DAta, Buddy!"
"Gotta have that DAta, Buddy!"
"Findin' the MEAN, Buddy!"
"Rippin' those p-values, Buddy!"
and at that point, Son's cadence and accent were so on-point that I collapsed, laughing too hard to continue. Buddy.
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Oct 3rd, 2022
So I started working in a lab, I'm officially an oceanographer!! I remember I was suuuper excited about it, bcs it IS a big deal to get a job only 3 months after my graduation! I'm learning so much and I like the prospects! And to top it off, my work is only 10min away from the beach, I can go there e-v-e-r-y-d-a-y if I want to!
Along with that, hum, my current obsession is to go to cafés, I don't know if you noticed yet hahah My city was doing small city stuff, like u know, having a gastronomic festival, and ofc I was part of it! Like I said, I'm living my best life now!
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TW: ANIMAL DEATH
28.06.2022 | Tuesday
My aunt thinks I'm crazy, my dad thinks it's a little gross and my mom is excited because, according to her, I'll be able to taxidermize our dogs (which horrified my dad and it's honestly a little creepy, I have to admit). Anyway, I started a taxidermy course! It's fun and super important to the academic field. We just watched the professors do it this time, and next week I'll do one myself!
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I’m so excited to be in a bio lab again next semester. Y’all truly have no idea how much I miss my little cell culture babies
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first lab practical in 15 minutes
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a centrifuge tried to kill me in the lab today
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Lab-Created Bird Flu Virus Accident Caused by Risky ‘Gain of Function’ Research
USA TODAY reports:
“This exclusive article is adapted from former USA TODAY investigative reporter Alison Young’s forthcoming book “Pandora’s Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk,” which will be released April 25. In this excerpt, Young reveals for the first time details of a December 2019 lab safety breach involving one of the world’s most infamous lab-created “gain of function” viruses – and the efforts that were made to downplay the event, avoid notifying health authorities and oversight bodies, and keep the public and policymakers in the dark.
Inside the high-security Influenza Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two experienced scientists were pulling ferrets out of their HEPA-filtered cages on a Monday in December 2019. Another researcher, still in training, was also in the room to watch and learn.
One by one, the animals were put into a biosafety cabinet, where a solution was washed into their nostrils. It’s a procedure used to collect evidence of infection, and this particular experiment involved exposing the animals to a highly controversial lab-engineered strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus.
The virus they were working with that day was far from ordinary, and there should have been no room for the safety breach that was about to happen and the oversight failures that followed.”
Read more about the “lab-made bird flu viruses that alarmed scientists around the world.”
Take Action! Ban Gain-of-Function ‘Biomedical’ and ‘Biodefense’ Research!
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Bacterial Pellet:
Bacterial Pellet when you harvest it before lunch:
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