oh yeah there are stories best one was a routine survey of the geology building lab on the first floor applied to use something or other, we went in and found really high background gamma radiation eventually we tracked it to the fourth floor which was HOT
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Replying to @eigenrobot @atonal440
i accidentally contaminated my labmate's purse once she then managed to run afoul of some security types scanning the subway with a geiger counter she was not pleased with me
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Replying to @eigenrobot @atonal440
bingo we had the ghetto-est setup for doing radioassays you can imagine, it was basically impossible not to spill screaming hot buffer all over the place
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anyway i after that i became the lab radiation safety officer the labmate i irradiated set the lab on fire once she was the fire safety officer set a thief to catch a thief, is what i always say
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Replying to @halvorz @atonal440
i miss the hilarious safety and health violations in bio labs I will admit i did have a good time with that
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We never worked with anything more dangerous than 0.5M caustic solution so the grad students at the biochemistry lab I worked with never gave two shits about PPE during a normal day.
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yeah, same we never worked with anything more dangerous than radioactive compounds, liquid nitrogen, concentrated sulfuric acid, and HIV not much more dangerous than your avg kitchen really
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I mostly didn't like the heavy metals lots of naked lead shielding in rad, fair bit of Hg(SCN)2 in a soil bio lab, bunch of solder in a neuro lab where I built microelectronics rest seemed easy to mitigate
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One of these is not like the others One of these is just not the same
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was really angry about it too I'd found an assay using something really quite harmless, experiment produced a null PI said "no use an antique mercury thiocyanate method and mind the 5(?)M acid" I ended up not finishing that experiment
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is the disposal for such reagents still "dump it into a steel tank with everything else and wait for chemical services to pick it up in a month"
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