Spend a lot of time making plate maps?

We hooked up our plate mapper to our AI copilot in
@brieflybio.bsky.social. It’s pretty fun.

Try it here: briefly.bio?utm_source=b...

Meet Agara Bio, an undergraduate-led community lab 🧪

Agara Bio is an open bio-lab run by undergraduate students at @jhu.edu.

We have a Christmas present for you 🎁

@brieflybio.bsky.social is now free and open to academics.

Sign up here: tinyurl.com/2vahxac7

Doing sc-RNA sequencing? As part of his research, Nikolay Zolotarev has developed and optimised a number of protocols for nuclei isolation and RNA extraction.

Check them out on his @brieflybio.bsky.social portfolio – they're open for the community re-use, and adapt 🔓

tinyurl.com/4zecyz8a

Ask around your lab. Statistically, you probably know someone who has tried to develop an algorithm to solve The Balanced Centrifuge Problem (bit.ly/3V5yB1U).

And by the looks of it, quite a few have found a solution too.

What about how you load your centrifuge?

To the 42%… Well… Mayyybe there’s a band?. No judgement! But erm, maybe lets run it again to be sure? 😉

And what about once we have some data? With how much caution do folks exercise when evaluating the results of this PCR?

Especially surprising given that most prefer their pipette to their laptop. That’s restraint.

So most of us want answers. How do we approach getting them?

Mostly, with due caution! 62% take the time to mull things over before rushing to test their brilliant new idea.

Interestingly, a decent chunk (44%) of those hoping for clear answers can’t help but be curious about that fly. How did it get there? What’s its story? Why does it love my ointment so much?

The majority just hate the fly. I hope they give it a fair trial before they exclude it.

And how do we feel when a fly appears in the ointment – an outlier that threatens that clear answer?

OK, back to the global analysis.

What are we in science for?

We spend months, planning, designing, troubleshooting, and analysing experiments. It seems like the vast majority of us really just crave a clear answer to the questions we set out to answer.

OK. Not that many. Stop judging us.

Ouch. I feel personally attacked. But how many of us are there out there?

A few months ago, we @brieflybio.bsky.social created a silly personality test (bit.ly/4fOKwte) for scientists. We ended up with over 5000 responses. We couldn’t just leave this precious data locked up at castle Briefly.

So. What does your pipette tip box say about you?