Teaching Ants How to Pipette
Pipetting takes approximately 1027.66 hours/year-person (unpublished) in an average biology lab, and a way to automate that process would save the United States approximately $1.2 billion per year.
Dear Giardia
[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] Dear Giardia, It has come to my attention that you...
What ChatGPT Thinks About Me
Over the years, many people have asked me what a grad student does, and I have been stumped for answers...
PI Finally Sets Foot On Campus 3 Years After COVID Lockdown
After months and months of remote work, well esteemed, distinguished, Lasker awardee, national academy of sciences member, presidential medal, nobel...
Anonymous Scientists Share 2023 New Year’s Resolutions
Stop printing papers that I never read. Finally figure out how to send lab coats out for laundry. Use Chat...
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...