31 Overly Honest Scientist Problems

    Getting a wine stain out of a lab coat = nightmare.

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    Cleaning/ defrosting the -20 freezer & found a box of rat tails from 1989. Trying to decide if these are "special" tails #scientistproblems

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    Developing strong feelings for a plate of yeast #scientistproblems

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    iPhone TouchID really isn't very useful for someone who wears latex gloves 70% of the time. #scientistproblems #science

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    It feels like summer again! If only flip flops were allowed at work :( #scientistproblems

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    I have a statistical analysis-induced headache… #scientistproblem

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    spending my sunday afternoon teaching myself to tie knots and using my bathtub to simulate a well #scientistproblems

    7.

    Ugh!!! So annoyed that I forgot to give my mice their booster vaccinations yesterday. Now I'll have to go in hungover. #scientistproblems

    8.

    Even in my nap-time dreams I'm pipetting stuff. #Scientistproblems #science

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    Spent 2 hours preparing DNA for electrophoresis, only to watch them float away in the buffer... real smooth! #scientistproblems

    10.

    If only the specific heat of water could be a bit lower so I could drink my tea a bit faster. #ScientistProblem

    11.

    Everyone's out in the sunshine, whilst I'm sitting in a freezing dark microscope room. #scientistproblem

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    As a side note, I misspelled "jeans" as "genes" in that previous tweet. #scientistproblems

    13.

    Starting to think like an engineer. Is that a good thing?? #scientistproblem

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    Also, I probably shouldn't have laughed when someone pronounced bitumen like "bitchy men" #scientistproblems

    15.

    The vast majority of my project involves waiting for furnaces and reactors. My degree should be in patience, not Catalysis #scientistproblem

    16.

    No one gets how amazing my picture of red speckles is. #scientistproblems

    17.

    Anyone know how to get a wine stain out of a lab coat? #ScientistProblems

    18.

    Learned a new word today. Moribund- at the point of death. The transgenic mice were moribund at ~46 weeks. #scientistproblems

    19.

    Nitric acid burns last a while. #scientistproblems

    20.

    Argh my parental cells are being weird #scientistproblems #postgradlife

    21.

    Someone didn't seal the dry ice container. It mostly sublimed overnight. That sucks. #ScientistProblems

    22.

    Figuring out where best to hang your laminated cardboard skeleton with labels naming the bones #scientistproblems #teacherproblems

    23.

    I can't even plot someone's imaginary death on Twitter without feedback on toxins from the geek squad. #ScientistProblems

    24.

    I guess I had to break my fear of rats sometime #scientistproblems

    25.

    Everyone talking about SHM and all I can think of is simple harmonic motion #scientistproblems

    26.

    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

    27.

    I got covered by fake vomit and fake pus today. #scientistproblems

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    Making some chai tea that I bought in Nepal a few years ago, and the directions say "boil for some time". Be specific! #scientistproblems

    30.

    You know you're an oceanographer when your phone autocorrects 'crap' to 'carp' #scientistproblems

    31.

    EVERYONE HAS MORE PAPERS PUBLISHED THAN I DO. #scientistproblems