$10 per Dozen Eggs? Those are Rookie Numbers
I was at the grocery store to get cake ingredients, and I saw that the egg aisle was near overflowing with cartons.
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...
Recipe for A PhD Student Thesis
Serves: 1 Thesis Committee Time: 4-7 years Just when you thought you had exhausted the quarantine home cookbook, here is...
Congratulations Uncle COVID Denier
In a long-anticipated move, the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences has been awarded to Your Uncle on Facebook for...
The art of holding up objects — not all objects are equal
Countless studies have shown that holding up your experiments toward the light makes you seem ten times smarter than you...
COVID Lock Down Inspires New Thesis
2020 has been a year of great turmoil due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With labs operating only at 50% capacity...
Ghost in the Machine
Despite the fact that scientists should be impartial toward all experiments and data, the vast number of unknowns in a...
Power Play
UCSF Parnassus Campus, somewhere deep in the animal tower – Statistics is a key element in learning to plan good...
Crazy Grad Stories
“I did a dose response curve using bleach. To my great delight, it worked perfectly! It was the most potent...