Lab confessions

Hahahaha!
You think I 'm going to confess here?
Not in a million years,but your effort of opening this tab shouldn't go to waste entirely so here is a piece of entertainment for you,relevant to the topic:)

A little while ago,someone on twitter started the #LabConfessions trend. Loads of scientists from all around the world tweeted the absurdities committed by them in Lab.Some of them are compiled here for your enjoyment.You can add to the list in the comments section:)

Happy reading:)

1.The last sentence on the last page of my PhD thesis says 'Well that's what I think anyway". Nobody's noticed yet.

2.I wet my shorts right before my first conference talk of my career

3.The worst letter from an editor: "Unfortunately, I must accept the paper for publication because three reviewers said so."

4.As a postdoc, I discovered that ciliates are phylogenetically closer to cows than to one another. Gave up wet science.

5.I saw a grad student jump into a bush to avoid my advisor and I told

6.I published a techniques paper just so I could say "arse" in presentations at conferences.

7.I once gave terrible honours student tubes of water to pipette rather than valuable cDNA for PCR. Did real expt myself

8.I often forget to take the lid off Petri dishes when pouring agar plates

9.I often label wrong side of petri plates b4 pouring agar

10.Once stuck my Prof to the toilet floor by throwing liquid nitrogen under the cubicle door

11. Interesting,back then in my first days at the lab, I was given pH strips with a tiny comparison chart to check the pH of my buffer. Instead of dipping the clear red strip, I dipped the whole comparison chart in the buffer thinking the specific color change will occur at one of the pH points on it. My PI entered the room and was looking at me. Felt bad the whole day coz he thought I knew and I screwed up.....with a basic pH test, still feel bad now that I've remembered.

12. I 'm not positive but I might have ruined the lab manager's Saturday night by misreading the thermometer.I was working late, and no one else was around, and upon opening the -20 freezer I happened to check the temperature and noticed it was well above -20. I panicked. I ended up calling the PI and the lab manager, and the lab manager drove 30-45 minutes from home to get to the lab in case we needed to move all the stuff out to other freezers. But by the time she arrived, the thermometer was pretty close to -20 again. I don't know if it's because I had been opening and closing it a lot while I was working, or because I misread the thermometer in Fahrenheit instead of Celsius (why would a Science Thermometer even have Fahrenheit gradations?), but I noticed Fahrenheit was the side that was currently exposed.