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Least favourite smell is formic acid, for me. Not just cause it burns like a motherfucker. Neutral buffered formalin smells slightly sweet in small doses, I kinda like it.
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my company has had to basically create to what amounts to fermentation...umm jerky so like spent enriched media, dried down with some filler to make a solid material the SMELL of that process is the WORST most invasive stench i have ever delt with, think like something like TEMED(and i actually love the temed aroma) or some other ammoniated solvent and multiply that by a hundred fold or like dried concentrated urine i'm assuming the stench is the fully broken down peptone in the media it literally just inervates any clothing item you have on, thankfully we have a bunch o interns do the processing
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lol surprised no one has mentioned TEMED (except vivi) or BME, fuuuuuuuck those smells forever I think the worst smell I had in recent memory was when the rotation student burned a bunch of their hair with a bunsen burner
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you will not find me takin a casual wiff of BME...TEMED on the other hand
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vivisectvnv posted:(and i actually love the temed aroma) Wtf. Selenomethionine doesn't have the worst odor, but I hate it the most because it gives me a terrible headache.
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Jan 12, 2019 22:38
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We should move the last two pages of this thread to TCC and see if anyone there notices.
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I like it when the essence of ammonium hydroxide hits the nose when I'm stuffy. That and lower concentrations of acetic acid are my favorite. The higher levels of acetic acid do not smell like delicious pickles. They smell like burning.
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The only thing that smells good in my building is the coffee in the breakroom. Everything else ranges from "slightly offensive" to "wow I wish I didn't have a nose" depending on what the spore lab is cooking and how long the test tubes have been sitting out without being cleaned.
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tbh "mouse" smell is quite awful rotten fly food is also gnarly
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There’s a hallway at UCSD where they clean and prep food for drosophila labs. Holy cats that hallway could stink and it was just long enough that you would doubt whether you would make it holding your breath.
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I’m so glad I don’t have to work with mice anymore.
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vivisectvnv posted:you will not find me takin a casual wiff of BME...TEMED on the other hand I kinda like the smell of BME since it was the standard reducing agent during my PhD. Nothing like exposing an entire lab section to this. Nowadays I just judge my ecoli production based on the smell of the lysed cells.
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We deal with a number of pure mercaptans, mainly methyl, ethyl and butyl. Relatively small quantities, but enough to have 200mL bottles in use. Most of the site is able to tell when we open our storage fridge, even though all of the containers are double walled. And you'll smell it on your clothes for days after. Horrid stuff.
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Sticko posted:We deal with a number of pure mercaptans, mainly methyl, ethyl and butyl. Relatively small quantities, but enough to have 200mL bottles in use. Most of the site is able to tell when we open our storage fridge, even though all of the containers are double walled. And you'll smell it on your clothes for days after. Horrid stuff. I was kinda waiting for this. gently caress mercaptans for ever.
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I actually worked at a pet store for a while and I can confirm that mice are the stinkiest of all small animals.
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Whatever the media that one of our researchers uses to culture our plasmids smells loving godawful. We do a lot of cranial window stuff on our mice so I just ignore everything mouse-related in my lab, cause looking at those little fuckers does kind of make me 
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Johnny Truant posted:Whatever the media that one of our researchers uses to culture our plasmids smells loving godawful. I am so glad I no longer work with anything that has feelings.
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Development posted:
Fall-out: I had the pleasure of firing him (for other reasons on top of this), and we installed an emergency air evac system that can turn over the whole building in 5 minutes.
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Development posted:
ahahahaha NO THANK YOU
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Development posted:
Be easier to just print this ghs label: 
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Dik Hz posted:One of my coworkers had a solution of iso-octyl mercaptan in the fridge. He did not have containment around it, and it was in the door of the fridge. He threw it in, the container shifted, and it fell to the floor and broke when the next person opened the fridge. Oh, and he didn't label it either. Evacuated a 50,000 sq ft building. Everyone got sent home early. It was a 1% solution in a scint vial. what's the min cert req for air change at this point?
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Discendo Vox posted:what's the min cert req for air change at this point?
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And here I am, mentioning with some regularity that we should have a fume hood at the very least.
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Mustached Demon posted:Be easier to just print this ghs label: you know what the worst GHS label is? exclamation mark i mean look how stupid this is 
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I'll take "Localized Temperature Variation" for $1000, Alex. Calibration dudes just identified that we have a 3*C difference in temperature between the two sides of our T/%RH transmitter in one room. As-Found vs As-Left tolerance failure because last year's technician put his probe on the other side of the transmitter from this week's technician. There's some airflow fuckery going on right next to it. I would never have thought to check that and just assumed it was a legit out-of-tolerance. 
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Clostridium culture takes the Cake for my worst lab smells. More than H2S producers.
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Today I got to do a thorough lab inspection of our entire building because it was smelling like burning electronics by our hoods. People were pretty freaked out. Turns out some rednecks had a nice trash fire going directly upwind of our air intake points for our climate control system.
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Posted this over in the resume thread, but figured I might get some more opinions from non-overlapping science people itt. I have basically no real network of professionals, as my old lab was, by the end, literally just me and my PI, and my PI did a really good job of repelling and alienating the rest of our department. I wasn't responsible or looking out for myself and my future, so you internet dorks are kinda all I have right now.Dik Hz posted:
Hooplah posted:alright, thanks. I assumed they have the "traditional" associate/senior research/technician -> scientist hierarchy based on posting requirements i'm seeing, but would that title just not matter later on when theoretically applying for other positions which would normally require a PhD?
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Normally everything in my lab smells terrible (except the phenol, mmmm phenol). Recently, however, I started a project using 2,3-butanedione. Now everyone is constantly confused because even just opening that bottle outside a fume hood makes the lab smell like butter for hours.
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Someday all the NDAs will time out and I'll be able to tell all the research lab construction disaster stories I have.
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Discendo Vox posted:Someday all the NDAs will time out and I'll be able to tell all the research lab construction disaster stories I have. Just talk about your experience at Bold Fling Harbor, in Dr. Doe's lab. Or maybe you were employed by Visor. Or just say "gently caress it" and keep it vague enough that we can't easily prove it was you. 
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These would be med school facilities. To put it in perspective, the one I think I am most able to talk about, because a lot of the details are technically public, involves both a radiation leak and a suicide.
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Sundae posted:I'll take "Localized Temperature Variation" for $1000, Alex. You know how if there's a cop behind you you get nervous even if you're not doing anything wrong? Cuz what if they notice something or you don't 100% stop etc. And then oops you can't find proof of insurance, now you're getting pulled into court. And anytime you got to the courthouse it's the same thing, better dress nice and not say the wrong thing, don't want to end up in jail for contempt. The justice system has a way of trying to fix every problem by applying More Justice. Which, once you're caught up in it, it can be very hard to emerge again, having a record for life etc. This results in some people (stereotypically poor) trying to avoid any contact with the justice system. Don't ever call the police, even if you need the type of help they're designed to provide. There's a similar in quality systems. The system is designed to bring things in line, and the way the system knows how to fix every problem is More Data. Until your lab is buried under a mountain of temperature probes. Maybe that's why the science poors (academics) try to avoid any type of contact with quality systems?
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Epitope posted:You know how if there's a cop behind you you get nervous even if you're not doing anything wrong? Cuz what if they notice something or you don't 100% stop etc. And then oops you can't find proof of insurance, now you're getting pulled into court. And anytime you got to the courthouse it's the same thing, better dress nice and not say the wrong thing, don't want to end up in jail for contempt. The justice system has a way of trying to fix every problem by applying More Justice. Which, once you're caught up in it, it can be very hard to emerge again, having a record for life etc. This results in some people (stereotypically poor) trying to avoid any contact with the justice system. Don't ever call the police, even if you need the type of help they're designed to provide. There's a similar in quality systems. The system is designed to bring things in line, and the way the system knows how to fix every problem is More Data. Until your lab is buried under a mountain of temperature probes. Maybe that's why the science poors (academics) try to avoid any type of contact with quality systems? While I agree in general, that's just a photo of the test they used to ID the issue. Our solution was to just put a note in the PM task list to always place the probe on the right side of the transmitter. 
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I wish I still worked for QC so I could sneak that into some slideshow for a meeting but goddamn am I glad I no longer work in QC.
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How often do you guys wash your lab coat? Mine usually lasts about three weeks or so before it starts needing a serious visit to the washing machine, mostly to temporarily flush out the potpourri of Interesting Lab Smells. (they've been promising us a professional laundry service for months but that has yet to materialize) Pikestaff fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Jan 29, 2019 |
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Pikestaff posted:How often do you guys wash your lab coat? Mine usually lasts about three weeks or so before it starts needing a serious visit to the washing machine, mostly to temporarily flush out the potpourri of Interesting Lab Smells. Usually when it starts to smell strongly of my... musky scent.
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I don't wear a lab coat, how much of a heathen am I?
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Some how empower* found new way to be bad. While making a report I wanted it to list only vials less than 13. I tell the report to do so and low and behold I only get vials 10, 11 and 12. I look at it dumbfounded and figured ok, maybe I have to use the between function. Again I o lay get vials 10, 11 and 13. Apparently empower doesn't treat all the data as numbers and treats part as letters. Eventually found a work around but seriously what the gently caress Waters? * software used for chromatography in pharma land for the lucky ones here who don't use it.
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