Buzz·Posted on 28 Aug 201431 Overly Honest Scientist ProblemsGetting a wine stain out of a lab coat = nightmare.by Kelly OakesBuzzFeed Staff, UK LinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. Jocelyn Reader @unique317 Cleaning/ defrosting the -20 freezer & found a box of rat tails from 1989. Trying to decide if these are "special" tails #scientistproblems 06:37 PM - 04 Nov 2011 Reply Retweet Favorite 2. Lyd!a @RainyDayKid_ Developing strong feelings for a plate of yeast #scientistproblems 06:31 AM - 23 Jul 2014 Reply Retweet Favorite 3. John Skylar @JohnSkylar iPhone TouchID really isn't very useful for someone who wears latex gloves 70% of the time. #scientistproblems #science 04:08 PM - 20 Aug 2014 Reply Retweet Favorite 4. laura alicia @lauraaa_alicia It feels like summer again! If only flip flops were allowed at work :( #scientistproblems 12:45 PM - 26 Aug 2014 Reply Retweet Favorite 5. Patrice Brassard @Pat_Brassard I have a statistical analysis-induced headache… #scientistproblem 07:56 PM - 28 Feb 2014 Reply Retweet Favorite 6. stardiver @stardiver spending my sunday afternoon teaching myself to tie knots and using my bathtub to simulate a well #scientistproblems 06:33 PM - 16 Oct 2011 Reply Retweet Favorite 7. Jonathan @MicroJon Ugh!!! So annoyed that I forgot to give my mice their booster vaccinations yesterday. Now I'll have to go in hungover. #scientistproblems 06:07 PM - 04 Jun 2011 Reply Retweet Favorite 8. Zarqa @itsZarqa Even in my nap-time dreams I'm pipetting stuff. #Scientistproblems #science 01:54 PM - 08 Aug 2014 Reply Retweet Favorite Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 9. Alex Wisner @WizeManSaid Spent 2 hours preparing DNA for electrophoresis, only to watch them float away in the buffer... real smooth! #scientistproblems 05:09 PM - 20 Oct 2011 Reply Retweet Favorite 10. Marcie @PennWench161 If only the specific heat of water could be a bit lower so I could drink my tea a bit faster. #ScientistProblem 09:45 PM - 15 Feb 2012 Reply Retweet Favorite 11. Natasha Hirst @Tashalana Everyone's out in the sunshine, whilst I'm sitting in a freezing dark microscope room. #scientistproblem 08:05 AM - 06 Jun 2013 Reply Retweet Favorite 12. Katie Pieper @kpeeps111 As a side note, I misspelled "jeans" as "genes" in that previous tweet. #scientistproblems 02:46 PM - 16 Aug 2014 Reply Retweet Favorite Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 13. Art @haringARTur Starting to think like an engineer. Is that a good thing?? #scientistproblem 01:04 PM - 28 Jun 2012 Reply Retweet Favorite 14. Alan @SpecialNeeds101 Also, I probably shouldn't have laughed when someone pronounced bitumen like "bitchy men" #scientistproblems 04:50 PM - 25 Aug 2014 Reply Retweet Favorite 15. Dan Jones @DanRJones91 The vast majority of my project involves waiting for furnaces and reactors. My degree should be in patience, not Catalysis #scientistproblem 12:18 PM - 10 Jul 2013 Reply Retweet Favorite 16. Rachael Bakker @neuroticlaundry No one gets how amazing my picture of red speckles is. #scientistproblems 10:30 PM - 12 Aug 2014 Reply Retweet Favorite 17. Brandon Moore @fatal3rror Anyone know how to get a wine stain out of a lab coat? #ScientistProblems 02:21 PM - 26 Aug 2014 Reply Retweet Favorite 18. Emily Toombs @AutobotEmily Learned a new word today. Moribund- at the point of death. The transgenic mice were moribund at ~46 weeks. #scientistproblems 09:57 PM - 25 Aug 2014 Reply Retweet Favorite 19. Alan @SpecialNeeds101 Nitric acid burns last a while. #scientistproblems 06:45 PM - 09 Aug 2014 Reply Retweet Favorite 20. Candy @_Cashmore_ Argh my parental cells are being weird #scientistproblems #postgradlife 11:52 AM - 05 Aug 2014 Reply Retweet Favorite 21. Ann @annabelle151 Someone didn't seal the dry ice container. It mostly sublimed overnight. That sucks. #ScientistProblems 02:02 PM - 08 Aug 2013 Reply Retweet Favorite 22. Louise G @DrLouiseG Figuring out where best to hang your laminated cardboard skeleton with labels naming the bones #scientistproblems #teacherproblems 03:25 PM - 12 Aug 2014 Reply Retweet Favorite 23. Bam D. Woodchipper @bam294 I can't even plot someone's imaginary death on Twitter without feedback on toxins from the geek squad. #ScientistProblems 01:47 AM - 21 Oct 2013 Reply Retweet Favorite Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 24. *****-**** @R_KingXO I guess I had to break my fear of rats sometime #scientistproblems 08:35 PM - 17 Oct 2013 Reply Retweet Favorite 25. Eric Lewis @Skip2My_Lew Everyone talking about SHM and all I can think of is simple harmonic motion #scientistproblems 12:11 PM - 04 Mar 2013 Reply Retweet Favorite 26. Ann @annabelle151 Just had a coworker walk in the lab to see me hugging the outside of an incubator b/c it was warm and I am cold. #ScientistProblems 07:15 PM - 06 Dec 2012 Reply Retweet Favorite 27. Holly Kershaw @cholly_ I got covered by fake vomit and fake pus today. #scientistproblems 07:57 AM - 11 Jul 2011 Reply Retweet Favorite 28. ɯnlqploפ ɟɟǝſ @arcadia_eg0 Where the Hell are my lab goggles? #ScientistProblems 08:05 AM - 02 Jul 2012 Reply Retweet Favorite 29. Eva Amsen @easternblot Making some chai tea that I bought in Nepal a few years ago, and the directions say "boil for some time". Be specific! #scientistproblems 10:01 PM - 03 Jun 2013 Reply Retweet Favorite 30. Eli Hoovler @EliHobbit You know you're an oceanographer when your phone autocorrects 'crap' to 'carp' #scientistproblems 08:21 PM - 08 Jul 2012 Reply Retweet Favorite 31. Joey @joeyishellagood EVERYONE HAS MORE PAPERS PUBLISHED THAN I DO. #scientistproblems 02:39 PM - 10 Jun 2013 Reply Retweet Favorite