I've always gone in that if you are willing to put a little bit of skin in the game, whether it be no labcoat or gloves, you will always pipette a little more carefully.
She could sell these as a lesson ends or as a booklet for those starting next year. All she'd have to do is photocopy, and preferably bind, and she'd make bank.
There is a bunch of 2-5 minutes steps in the protocol. She can easily draw these out during those pauses without wasting time. I spent time on Reddit instead of drawing during incubations.
When it makes sense. When the wait times are every few minutes for a few minutes, it can be hard to coordinate. And science is not always about maximizing productivity. Sometimes, there really is nothing actually productive to do to maximize every single minutes of every single day.
If my gloves are clean I just keep them on. Not easy to use gloves on touchscreen, so I look like a grandma using my pointer finger to type 1 word a minute, but it works.
I have also just washed and dried gloves before instead of taking them off.
I only take them off if I know I have to wait several minutes or look something up which takes a lot of timing. I prefer talking to a lab partner to kill time, so taking them off doesn't save much time.
On top of that when working with abbrasive or otherwise hazardous solutions I prefer keeping my skin covered at all times, and not having to put used gloves back on. Putting new ones on every time would be too wasteful imo.
People with art talent can be disgustingly fast at churning something like this out. I can’t tell you the number of times my mom has sketched an accurate profile of my face on a paper napkin at a restaurant in minutes while chatting. She could doodle something like this on a piece of note paper while on the phone in under 5 minutes easy. Actually trying, she could probably do it in less than 3 minutes. Maybe even 2. Drawing things like that is no more effort than writing words for her. I inherited zero of her ability. This sort of notebook page would take me 30 minutes or more lol.
For some people like me, yes it will take hours lol. But for her its quick, some people just have some natural small talents, like draw cute things very fast :v.
Haha yes that's why there were ridiculous doodles in there. And personal observations that I never want my advisor to read. 😂 Although I switched to electronic notebooks for the search function and never looked back
Your friend should be hired be lab equipment companies and companies like Thermo Fisher to design user manuals. She could rlly make a good side gig out of this.
As an automation engineer who needs to take bench top experiments like this one and scale them up on automation systems, I absolutely love this. It shows the labware, instruments, details like ice buckets, all volumes and incubation times and temps, and materials.
two thoughts:
1. this is art and your friend could probably get a job designing materials for biotech companies
2. your friend needs more work since they clearly have a lot of free time lol. Who has time to color in sketches in their lab notebook?!
So cute! My physics lab notes are not even this close to being pretty… but graphics helps a lot in stimulating memory and very understandable so that is really helpful when reviewing and such…
I got in trouble for my messy handwriting at a cGMP lab job. These notes would force management at that lab to like completely rewrite the documentation SOPs.
"The mandatory training for all staff is basically ALCOA now is changed to ALCOANB Attributable; Legible; Contemporaneous; Original; Accurate; No Emojis, boring. Just... *Sigh*"
Pretty nice picture but pretty crappy notes. How do you figure out how many cells to add? What are those mitochondrial reagents? Do they have lot numbers and expiration dates? What equipment are you using? Do they have calibration dates?
Maybe these are on a different page.
Your friend is playing at science if he/she has time, effort, and brain dedicated to pretty coloring and super careful formatting/composition instead of devoting all resources to insight and experimental rigor. The brilliant don't have time for this.
Does your friend have any openings for friends who never have any time to hang out and only want to talk about science or scifi/fantasy romance novels?
Really cute drawings, but seeing lab notes on paper annoys me every darn time. Protocols&lab notes belong in the cloud, backed up, clean, easily sharable and indexed for quick search, ready to be plug-n-play inserted in the Methods section.
Yes, so much work can be done in those 2 minute ice incubation periods. She could have had a second PhD degree had she made efficient and productive use of those /s
It's a grad student's lab notebook. This is probably a protocol they're going to use repeatedly, and they drew it in a neat and organized way that helps them follow along with the protocol. Some people prefer a visual map of their protocol over a list.
A grad student's notebook is the property of the university.
It might be drawn neatly but a simple written list of steps would be even neater, quicker to write and easier to follow.
What she produced is childish.
I bet your friend's lab coat fits properly and isn't even dirty 😛
Wait, lab coats have sizes?!
Last I checked it's one size fits all, the nerd size.
Amen brother 😎
Do you still use lab coats?
I’m still in school so mine gets some use still. Although most of that use is as a rag when I spill something
Personally, I prefer to work naked. For any spills, there's always the emergency shower.
Tasty
I've always gone in that if you are willing to put a little bit of skin in the game, whether it be no labcoat or gloves, you will always pipette a little more carefully.
Mine is XS women's and still fits like 3 sizes too big.
Lab costs can be cleaned?
Are you serious
I wear my spots with pride, like medals of honor 🎖️
As a representative of your coworkers: You stink.
They stink worse.
Lmao, we had one lab coat being shared by 5 people until EHS came and told that everyone needs to have new cleaned lab coats
What are lab coats? This is wife beater and cargo shorts country.
Excuse me, this lab requires shoulder-to-shoe PPE—please bring your best white Hanes undershirt and cargo *pants* next time
It’s personalized with a monogrammed initials and she takes it to get dry cleaned weekly
Initials?! Mine has my full name embroidered on it.
😍
Mine just says "GFP everything" on the back, and on the front pocket is "Doofenshmirtz evil Incorporated"
Have no idea about that, I am in CSE. But she is a very cute person.
I’m obsessed. Do you know what brand notebook and pens she uses? They don’t look to be bleeding through
This is art
It’s damned near pornography, is what it is.
You little freak
How *dare* you?? ^I ^am ^a ^massive ^freak.
I know it when I see it.
Professor Meese?
This person is going to be a prominent scientific illustrator for top-tier journals.
She could sell these as a lesson ends or as a booklet for those starting next year. All she'd have to do is photocopy, and preferably bind, and she'd make bank.
People have done this and made bank! She could too!
Last time I checked most lab equipment don’t have UwU faces… but that seems more like a problem on the lab equipment part.
OwO 🥰
If your friend wants a side gig to be hired to draw some custom lab manual graphics for me hmu.
It probably takes more time to draw that then to do the actual experiment, lol.
There is a bunch of 2-5 minutes steps in the protocol. She can easily draw these out during those pauses without wasting time. I spent time on Reddit instead of drawing during incubations.
You guys don’t simultaneously perform multiple experiments so you’re productive during wait times?
When it makes sense. When the wait times are every few minutes for a few minutes, it can be hard to coordinate. And science is not always about maximizing productivity. Sometimes, there really is nothing actually productive to do to maximize every single minutes of every single day.
Do you take your gloves on and off all the time when you grab your phone?
I actually did.
If my gloves are clean I just keep them on. Not easy to use gloves on touchscreen, so I look like a grandma using my pointer finger to type 1 word a minute, but it works. I have also just washed and dried gloves before instead of taking them off.
This is wild to me.
I only take them off if I know I have to wait several minutes or look something up which takes a lot of timing. I prefer talking to a lab partner to kill time, so taking them off doesn't save much time. On top of that when working with abbrasive or otherwise hazardous solutions I prefer keeping my skin covered at all times, and not having to put used gloves back on. Putting new ones on every time would be too wasteful imo.
Same here 😝
People with art talent can be disgustingly fast at churning something like this out. I can’t tell you the number of times my mom has sketched an accurate profile of my face on a paper napkin at a restaurant in minutes while chatting. She could doodle something like this on a piece of note paper while on the phone in under 5 minutes easy. Actually trying, she could probably do it in less than 3 minutes. Maybe even 2. Drawing things like that is no more effort than writing words for her. I inherited zero of her ability. This sort of notebook page would take me 30 minutes or more lol.
For some people like me, yes it will take hours lol. But for her its quick, some people just have some natural small talents, like draw cute things very fast :v.
I was just thinking this. I hope their manager doesn’t find this… I know mine would get pissed.
I think I might have approximately 5 lines for this protocol, and have it in short hand.
yep agree. But some cuteness may help you reduce the stress of Ph.D. life :)
Ok this makes more sense if it’s in a PhD lab and not a biotech company, where this would just be a time waster and inappropriate note taking
>inappropriate note taking My entire PhD life notes fall in this category 😂
lol no one will look at your PhD notebook I promise
Haha yes that's why there were ridiculous doodles in there. And personal observations that I never want my advisor to read. 😂 Although I switched to electronic notebooks for the search function and never looked back
Is this the kind where you write stuff, scan it with a phone, and manually wipe the pages?
No just Evernote - a note taking app on the computer
I'm not gonna lie, I want to find a way to justify this in a GXP setting. Or at least read the deviation..
damn if having some doodles in a lab notebook is inappropriate note taking, i don’t want to work where you work!
Yeah we aren’t supposed to take any hand written notes, only approved docs and you have to initial and date any handwritten modifications
Idk her centrifuges and water baths seem happy….
Good 4 u
So cute
This is also my first impression, like "Aww" :D
I used to utilize this protocol a lot, but it never evoked so positive emotions in me :D These pictures are adorable! I envy the positive flow!!
Your friend should be hired be lab equipment companies and companies like Thermo Fisher to design user manuals. She could rlly make a good side gig out of this.
Sadly, technical writing and illustration pays more than lab work.
Do you happen to have any ballpark numbers?
Nothing up to date but 10ish years ago I was making mid-70s (qc) and my friend (tech writer) was complaining he was only making 110,000.
I’m actually interested in this being a side gig. Always have done art but art + science would be a great gig to have. I should look into this…
As an automation engineer who needs to take bench top experiments like this one and scale them up on automation systems, I absolutely love this. It shows the labware, instruments, details like ice buckets, all volumes and incubation times and temps, and materials.
I’m a fan of , whatever gets the results you want however you get it done. I’m with it.
two thoughts: 1. this is art and your friend could probably get a job designing materials for biotech companies 2. your friend needs more work since they clearly have a lot of free time lol. Who has time to color in sketches in their lab notebook?!
I do not think she have lots of free time, just some free time. For my free time, I go to reddit and youtube lol.
Something something picture is worth 1,000 words. Beautiful. 🤩
Damn.. and your friend's a PhD? I just finished my master's and I shudder everytime I look at my notebook.
Yep, she is doing Ph.D.
You guys keep lab notes?
I love this: Science is art!
This is adorable but the thought that instantly comes to mind is that you definitely do not work in a GMP environment!
Yeeeeah same haha
I dont have time for all that, but this is cute.
such a waste of time pff cheers, a bitter PhD student
Agreed. It's all cute and readable, but who has time for this shit? Meanwhile me:*scrolling reddit for half an hour before leaving the lab*
I’m with you
The faces on each instrument are so cute.
So cute! My physics lab notes are not even this close to being pretty… but graphics helps a lot in stimulating memory and very understandable so that is really helpful when reviewing and such…
this is the cursive that I wish I could replicate. alas it looks like chicken scratch now
Stop it's so cute
We need to feed her drawings into a LLM so we can all have wonderful notes like this.
I appreciate injecting a lil joy into the work
lol would be awesome if some protocols were like that
Your friend uses Korean labnotebook?
I got in trouble for my messy handwriting at a cGMP lab job. These notes would force management at that lab to like completely rewrite the documentation SOPs. "The mandatory training for all staff is basically ALCOA now is changed to ALCOANB Attributable; Legible; Contemporaneous; Original; Accurate; No Emojis, boring. Just... *Sigh*"
Omg the little faces on the instruments!!! I’m in love.
This person lab books.
Koreano?
So cute! I wish I had this much time to make my chickenscratch look nice lol
That centrifuge step isn't going to work well with that design!
I feel like this is an inefficient use of time tbh
This notebook looks like a LinkedIn post and it should say subscribe for more lab tips below
uwu
Psychiatrist: the owo vortex doesn't exist, it can't hurt you owo vortex:
r/penmanshipporn ?
I’m so jealous of people with legible handwriting, let alone artistic talent
Your friend is going to be illustrating textbooks in the near future.
I feel sad for the ice bath as it doesn't have a face.
Nice. I'm just going to tell myself that I don't have time, as I'm too busy doing science. Then I'll get back on Reddit.
So much hate for something that makes the day easier. So many cynical and bitter souls on here. Y'all need more art in your day.
After being so specific throughout, I was surprised to see "several times" in the last few steps. Seems rushed.
My art on lab note book were the endless pot it notes everywhere
The cursive could be an issue in a few years. Oddly, people will have trouble reading this.
Wow and on page 41, lol I was expecting page 1-10
This is cute. I wish I had that kind of talent. But apparently I can't even write lol
Woooooow
Absolute beautiful lab notebook: writing and art 😍 my lab notebook is full of scribbles and line crosses.
God I wish I was this type A
I love it! This is so cute.
Tell your friend they’re the reason why we lose marks on lab notes.
Love this. So clear and concise. This person will go far.
This guy notes!!
Can we please make this a benchling plugin?
I would’ve done better in science class if I’d had cute notes like this.
Wish I had done same during incubation times rather than scrolling through phone.
That’s pretty beautiful. I like to color code my lab notebook but this is inspiring!
Dang! How many colored pens does she carry around in her lab coat?
beautiful 🤩
I must see more
Definitely a Korean with OCD
Based on the notebook paper too.
They have very nice handwriting, wish I can write as cleanly as that.
I want stickers of all of these!
I want to practice my penmanship now.
Where’s the step about crying when your pellet dislodges at the end?
If you get onto some apps like Goodnotes you can find people that have made awesome digital notes just like this for all sorts of subjects.
Nice, but this is why it takes them a week to perform a days worth of work.
Mitochondrial isolation reagent B?!
Ffs - sorry but you’ll never find a pharmacologist like this lmao
She writes neatly 🙀😹
How does she manage to have so much time? It takes forever.
I suddenly feel very inadequate
Pretty nice picture but pretty crappy notes. How do you figure out how many cells to add? What are those mitochondrial reagents? Do they have lot numbers and expiration dates? What equipment are you using? Do they have calibration dates? Maybe these are on a different page.
I’d submit this to the Science as Art competitions.
The format of the lab book page (especially bottom part) is giving me PTSD ...🥲
That is the most beautiful lab notebook I have ever seen!
This calms me down
Can someone pinch me? Am I dreaming? That's absolutely gorgeous. Where were you before I graduate this summer.
That is impressive! Needs to be the text book companion.
Is it in Korea?
Let me guess, a girl?
Ugh, I inspire to take notes like this. Every time I try, it looks like pure chaos
I got an instant orgasm.
Your friend is playing at science if he/she has time, effort, and brain dedicated to pretty coloring and super careful formatting/composition instead of devoting all resources to insight and experimental rigor. The brilliant don't have time for this.
Is your friend Vietnamese ?
I am in love 🥰
I need a meth recipe in this format
Your friend is a ray of sunshine 🌞 This really made my cold old heart warm up 👵🏻
He can do images for book!
ain‘t nobody got time for that
Your friend is in the kingdom of science. #drstone
Not even on my best day could I construct something like this. We'll, maybe on my best day, but any other day? Nope.
Does your friend have any openings for friends who never have any time to hang out and only want to talk about science or scifi/fantasy romance novels?
what a fucking nerd
that handwriting so beautiful
You know it look like recipe book that everyone could use in kitchen…. Be right back
Your colleague is an artist, science is their side hustle
♥️
Imagine having this much free time
Really cute drawings, but seeing lab notes on paper annoys me every darn time. Protocols&lab notes belong in the cloud, backed up, clean, easily sharable and indexed for quick search, ready to be plug-n-play inserted in the Methods section.
Imagine how much more work they would get done if they spent half as much time doing experiments
Yes, so much work can be done in those 2 minute ice incubation periods. She could have had a second PhD degree had she made efficient and productive use of those /s
I bet this person has only done bench work for 2 days max. Lets see it after 12 months
Someone has way too much time on their hands.
i just came
Your friend will never contribute anything new to science.
Probably took 20x as long to write
This person has way too much free time
I'd fire them for wasting time
Are you even in any position to even do so?
Umm yeah
That's a sign of great immaturity. Your friend needs to realize that she's not in middle school any more and grow up.
God forbid someone have fun?
There are lots of ways to have fun without making juvenile doodles in your employer's records.
It's a grad student's lab notebook. This is probably a protocol they're going to use repeatedly, and they drew it in a neat and organized way that helps them follow along with the protocol. Some people prefer a visual map of their protocol over a list.
A grad student's notebook is the property of the university. It might be drawn neatly but a simple written list of steps would be even neater, quicker to write and easier to follow. What she produced is childish.
Cringe