Taxing Times
This is not tax advice. I am by no means a tax guru. Please don’t misconstrue this as helpful.
This Date in UCSF History: New Year’s Resolutions, Revisited
(Originally published in Synapse on January 6, 2011.) It is that time of the year when gym membership sign-ups are...
Pointless-omics – The Curious Trend Of Grad Students Drowning In Big Data
In the latest report by EH&S, a surprising and worrying trend was detected.
The Ultimate Experiment
[Editor's note: This submission won second place in the Synapse storytelling contest fiction category.] Three brothers had been killed that...
Work From Home Pets Demand Publishing Rights
As Omicron wanes and UCSF opens up cautiously again (hopefully for the last time), an unexpected group of researchers are...
Unwashed Lab Coat as New Drug Source?
The lab coat is a ubiquitous and essential element in every lab for the purposes of lab safety, and in...
COVID Chronicles: Kitchen Fail
Grad student who successfully does 14-page genomic library sequencing protocol is unable to follow 3 ingredient, one-pot recipe.
Excerpt from The Art of Amateur Sadness
Match McGregory’s “Excerpt from the Art of Amateur Sadness” debuts an unwritten anti- self-help book that lists the ways to...
Is This a Graduate Student?
I have made a terrible mistake. I’m writing this to you, the readers of UCSF Synapse, to warn you against...
Graduate Student Achieves Enlightenment After Paper Scoop
Her palms were sweaty, knees weak, arms were heavy; was that vomit on her sweater already? Mom’s spaghetti? The first...