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Me: "OK I gotta go back to the lab."
Colleagues: "Of course she does, it's Holly."
Not my fault the denaturation incubation is perfectly timed for a 1-cocktail break. #figaday 4.264/n #year4 #overlyhonestmethods

"A mathematical biologist is a machine for converting pop tarts into volleyball swings." - Erdös, probably. #AppliedMath #overlyhonestmethods

There was one post on the #overlyhonestmethods hashtag back on Twitter years ago, something along the lines of "We couldn't replicate the experiment bc the postdoc who did all the work left to start a bakery." I think often of that one, but with less bemusement these days.

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I've never been in a lab that stores chemicals under "inert gas" as some recommends. My mother in law uses this commercial Argon to preserve bottles of open wine from oxygenation. Seems cost effective for chemicals that are oxygen sensitive

We need #overlyhonestmethods reboot here

And hitting up social media to try and remember how extended family members spelled their kids' names... (-y? -ie? -tt or t? -iad or -ade? C'mon, people.
#OverlyHonestMethods #ADozenCousinsAndTheirKids

#RealTimeChem #overlyhonestmethods
Use of MSTeams for hybrid-work lab is a step in the right direction.
Taking a picture of where a pipette once sat conveys the right level of snark to get it returned

Me: "I'm feeling sad."
Sasha: "Here, I'll set you perfectly for 4 hours until you feel better."
So good to have my fave partner back out on the beach for the first time in a month 🥹 (Not pictured: the #NewCalculus final I'm making figures for today.)
#overlyhonestmethods #figaday 4.171/n #year4

I had three meetings schedules for the rest of the week, and two have just been moved! Happy days.
However, the big grant writing deadline just got moved forward. Boo :( #OverlyHonestMethods

"how do you cite government and binding lectures?"
"I go look up a paper by a trusted grown-up syntactician and do it however they do it" #overlyhonestmethods

Once again I am scaring myself with how fast I can now crack out some plausible sounding proposal text #OverlyHonestMethods

I’m sitting on top of a blue car to get a mediocre picture of a maize plant with a black tablecloth underneath. With grad student Steph Martinez

#OverlyHonestMethods 🤣 with Steph Martinez

#overlyhonestmethods Apparently my NCBI issues were not drastic enough to report.

If anyone has any worse horror stories, feel free to DM or email me, I can get you in touch.

Nice! A case of #overlyhonestmethods, perhaps?

Not quite #overlyhonestmethods territory, but "We conducted a monitoring study to determine how cool these caves are" is my new favourite way to describe cave monitoring

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Memes for #chemsky #overlyhonestmethods

Lightening some brown bear hair. A piece of silver tin foil sits on top of a black lab bench, with hairs smeared with the cream and powder combination lightener which was applied with a violet sparkle brush. A man's digital watch is to the left counting 6 minutes 8 seconds, as the lightening process is to be checked every 5 minutes according to the knowledgeable woman at the beauty supply store.

Supplies from the beauty supply store: 40 volume cream lightener, a packet of powder lightener, and a violet sparkle application brush.

We want to see the structures inside of #bear hair, but it's too pigmented. So off to the beauty supply store we went!
Fun day in the lab 🐻
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Is #OverlyHonestMethods still a hashtag @realtimechem.bsky.social ?

Sunday morning volleyball is now the most essential part of my week. Sound up for birdsong. #overlyhonestmethods

Has been an especially good #figaday. #metadata #overlyhonestmethods

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#OverlyHonestMethods 😂🍃👀🌐🧪📏

"This is a tortured acronym that I'm not going to bother trying to explain"

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As one researcher stated in their #OverlyHonestMethods about their study on anti-predator behavior in the bovidae: "Though numerous, Cape buffalo Syncerus caffer were not approached on foot in the interests of completing the study"
-Tim Caro, 1994

Da interessiert einen doch eher: Was haben meine Experimente ergeben.

Viel wichtiger wäre es, wenn der Material&Methoden-Teil mal ehrlich verfasst wäre, damit man es auch nachkochen kann. #OverlyHonestMethods

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Photo of dirty water being filtered through a coffee filter into a large jar on a lab bench.

Prefiltering a water sample #OverlyHonestMethods

This is my favorite method summary ever. Even better than some of the original #overlyhonestmethods