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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Replying to @eigenrobot @halvorz and
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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