ErrantScience

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An account full of daily silly science cartoons
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Best of luck to all of those starting new jobs at the moment, I hope there aren't too many 🚩

I calculate my timesheets using the advanced formula called RAND()... because MADEUP() isn't a function in Excel

If you are lab manager you do get more responsibilities, but those are often responsibility no sane person would ever want... which explains most lab managers

So many office plants have been lost to an extended vacation 😢

Planning meetings with more than 3 people quickly becomes totally impossible

Never underestimate the destructive power of a supervisor who thinks that regulations don't apply to them... any relation this cartoon has to current news stories is purely coincidental

Getting back reviewer comments always feels like life and death, but it's rarely that dramatic... unless you drama-it-up a bit

R2-D2 had the best quotes but it might be hard to communicate in the lab with them

Ethics are very important and absolutely something we should all do... especially when the ethical compliance officer is watching

This is one of our most popular cartoons which we're sharing for the end of Pride Month, we've also got some new pride cartoons which we'll share next month because we love pride all the time 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #PrideMonth #Pride

These are just guess work because obviously I've never had bad data before 😶

Never leave an experiment unattended or climate change unchecked

Science is full of all kinds of wonderful, amazing people 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #PrideMonth #Pride #LGBTQ

From a custom cable company I was speaking to today about trying to replace some cables on some old equipment, "Why would anyone make that!"

In the Venn diagram of results, my results never seem to overlap with sense

I love any opportunity to massively overthink my data

Today is Stereoscopic Day which celebrates the anniversary of the first stereoscopic viewer and 185 years of attempts at bringing 2D images into 3D #SteroscopicDay

With apologies to theoretical physicists, I realise there's a lot more to their work than making models... there is also swearing at models

If you work in cell biology, you need to come to terms with a lot of death... most of it your fault

Nothing worse than the sinking feeling you get when you realise your long experiment hasn't been saving data

A handy lab sign for you to download and print if you need it ;)

It's a little known fact that people get attacked by predatory journals in three feet of water about ten feet from the beach

Daydreaming in the lab is fine provided you've turned off your hot plate and not left anything oxidising

"Don't stir using the pH probe" must be one of the most ignored lab instructions ever. If you've done it then own up and raise your hand .........🙋

Nothing like opening reviewer comments and suddenly feeling as though you'd like the world to open up and swallow whole... research is so fun

Many a lab has been lost beneath a pile of “useful” boxes

The art of non-committal responses on video calls while distracted by a GIF of a cat is something everyone should learn

Once you learn that scientific manufactures do custom glass orders, it's hard to resist using that power for adorable ornaments

While having accurate results is important, it's never as important as having results that match the company strategy

We would totally get behind a campaign to make Snuggies acceptable science conference wear