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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · 26d

It's very strange the PPE isn't often available in more sizes or shapes, given how important it is to be right!

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Sep 8

Most training needs repeating annually... it's a perpetual cycle of endlessly clicking through stock images

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Sep 2

Narrator: The draw was never sorted later

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Sep 1

More movies should start with "I think we can just score the COSHH a 6 not an 8, what's the worst that can happen."

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 29

This is a cartoon we made for someone that cares a great deal about FAIR data

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 28

They're bad at data analysis because they didn't use a formula with enough superfluous Greek letters

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 25

While making smarter automatic pipettes no one stops to think should we make smarter automatic pipettes

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 24

Every time I post this cartoon it makes me want to watch Date's Peak, the most factually accurate of all volcano movies.... ;)

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 23

A lot research went into this cartoon (I once met an oceanographer)

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 22

Choosing a title for your PhD thesis is tricky but don’t make it too accurate #AcWri

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 21

Research grants take hundreds of hours to write and cause so many sleepless nights, but it’s okay as there are good reasons to write them #academia

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 20

Geologists have to contend with a lot of unexpected problems out in the field 💩🐈 #geology

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 19

Click chemistry is a term for a class of chemical reactions which join two molecules together. If your chemistry actually 'clicks' put it down slowly and step back!

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 18

Sadly our idea of charging people £7.99 for a blue tick to put on their experimental results didn’t pan out

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 17

Most frighting lab ‘hack’ I ever saw was someone super gluing up a cracked chloroform bottle. The best is using a cut up rubber glove as a hair tie

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 16

This is a cartoon we draw a while back for @PhysicsWorld about the similarities of physicists and cats, still feels pretty accurate although I think needs a 5th panel about their love of snacks

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 15

There are plenty of typos in journal papers but this one about cooing powders was just too adorable to not be a cartoon (HT to our discord follower rabbit for pointing this one out). If you've found any others let us know!

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 14

I know that I shouldn't have a folder on my computer that is the equivalent of a mouldy dumpster, full of random data. But I do 🗑️

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 13

In my defence sometimes I don't include the attachment with an email because I'm forgetful #Email #Comms

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 12

I think there is a lot of potential for a science-based cover of Barbie Girl by Aqua #Barbie #Chemistry

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 11

Beware of people asking for quick favours and their capacity to destroy any work-life-health balance you might have

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 10

Nothing like someone picking apart your data not realising how much is balanced on top of it... #Jenga

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 9

Everyone gets imposter syndrome at some point. It's not fun and feels terrible but it'll pass #MentalHealth #SelfCare #ImposterSyndrome

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 8

Other books in this series include Lord of the drosophila and Pride and peer review

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Aug 1

If only most scientific equipment was half this compatible

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