Pic spam of goodness.
So, I decided to take some pictures of stuff I do in lab. I'm not sure why I feel the need to, but I do. I also have some video, but they're kind of crappy quality because my phone hates me.
Each one of those little quarter gallon tanks represents a pair of fish that I picked out who were compatible enough to get busy and give eggs. I am the greatest match maker ever! I have a gift, I can't lie.
This is one of four rows of fish that belong to my lab. Each on of those tanks holds about 20-25 fish. Yeah, that's a lot o' mutant fish.
I don't know if you ever had sea monkies as a kid, but that 5+ foot tall cylinder there is full of them. We feed baby fish newly hatched brine shrimp every morning. I also like to steal a container to feed some of the sickly fish and to reward some of the fish who gave a lot of eggs. Yes, I know I'm odd.
This is one of our larger tanks that holds upwards of 200 fish. The quality is poor, sorry.
That's what's called a dissection scope. I spend a fair amount of time at this one, actually. On the table next to it you can see where I was busy making slides to use. You can also see that our lab is a little bit messy. Heh.
These are the slides I was making. Basically they're composed of a microscope slide with three lense covers superglued to either side. This makes kind of a reservoir for embryos to sit in while you look at them under a scope. It's also more difficult than it sounds and I always leave with tiny pieces of glass glued to myself. Shortly after this picture was taken I dropped the container and broke all of my slides. Go me.
This side of the materials shelf houses about half of the reagents I typically use to make a bunch of solutions in the lab. haha It's a little disorganized, to say the least. I feel a little embarrassed about it, actually. Maybe I'll do something about that next week.
This scale and I spend a lot of quality time together. Especially when a solution recipe calls for you to be accurate in your measurement out to the thousandths place. That's a bitch, let me tell you. You can also see the pipetters that I feel like I should have permanently attached to my hand because I use them all so often.
Darwin enjoys hanging out in our lab quite often. Here he is sitting on a box of slides next to some waste water.
When I do staining I put about 100 embryos into tubes the size of the ones on the right hand agitator. You can't really tell, but the liquid inside those tubes is blue, which is the stain that's used to dye cartilage in the fish.
Well, that was fun. I guess that's just about it. NO WAIT! I lied.
Take THAT, creationists!!
Such a pretty theater.
That's a big-ass burger. Or a big ass-burger, if you read XKCD.
Nice picture, Liz.
Me with the most amazingly real looking wax person I've ever seen. I'm still convinced it was actually Samuel L. Jackson just standing there to amuse himself.
Okay, I'm done now. I'm tired and I'm still making up for my three hours of sleep Thursday night because I chose to see Spider-man instead of studying/sleeping. Go me. Goodnight, intarwubs.
Each one of those little quarter gallon tanks represents a pair of fish that I picked out who were compatible enough to get busy and give eggs. I am the greatest match maker ever! I have a gift, I can't lie.
This is one of four rows of fish that belong to my lab. Each on of those tanks holds about 20-25 fish. Yeah, that's a lot o' mutant fish.
I don't know if you ever had sea monkies as a kid, but that 5+ foot tall cylinder there is full of them. We feed baby fish newly hatched brine shrimp every morning. I also like to steal a container to feed some of the sickly fish and to reward some of the fish who gave a lot of eggs. Yes, I know I'm odd.
This is one of our larger tanks that holds upwards of 200 fish. The quality is poor, sorry.
That's what's called a dissection scope. I spend a fair amount of time at this one, actually. On the table next to it you can see where I was busy making slides to use. You can also see that our lab is a little bit messy. Heh.
These are the slides I was making. Basically they're composed of a microscope slide with three lense covers superglued to either side. This makes kind of a reservoir for embryos to sit in while you look at them under a scope. It's also more difficult than it sounds and I always leave with tiny pieces of glass glued to myself. Shortly after this picture was taken I dropped the container and broke all of my slides. Go me.
This side of the materials shelf houses about half of the reagents I typically use to make a bunch of solutions in the lab. haha It's a little disorganized, to say the least. I feel a little embarrassed about it, actually. Maybe I'll do something about that next week.
This scale and I spend a lot of quality time together. Especially when a solution recipe calls for you to be accurate in your measurement out to the thousandths place. That's a bitch, let me tell you. You can also see the pipetters that I feel like I should have permanently attached to my hand because I use them all so often.
Darwin enjoys hanging out in our lab quite often. Here he is sitting on a box of slides next to some waste water.
When I do staining I put about 100 embryos into tubes the size of the ones on the right hand agitator. You can't really tell, but the liquid inside those tubes is blue, which is the stain that's used to dye cartilage in the fish.
Well, that was fun. I guess that's just about it. NO WAIT! I lied.
Take THAT, creationists!!
Such a pretty theater.
That's a big-ass burger. Or a big ass-burger, if you read XKCD.
Nice picture, Liz.
Me with the most amazingly real looking wax person I've ever seen. I'm still convinced it was actually Samuel L. Jackson just standing there to amuse himself.
Okay, I'm done now. I'm tired and I'm still making up for my three hours of sleep Thursday night because I chose to see Spider-man instead of studying/sleeping. Go me. Goodnight, intarwubs.