Becca May Live Another Day... : On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess

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The Egyptian goddess Isis was celebrated as the ideal wife and mother. The blogger known as Dr. Isis has some fancy-sounding degrees and is a physiologist at a major research university working on some terribly impressive stuff. She blogs about balancing her research career with the demands of raising small children, how to succeed as a woman in academia, and anything else she finds interesting. Also, she blogs about shoes. In fact, she blogs a lot about shoes.

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Becca May Live Another Day...

Posted on: November 15, 2009 10:01 PM, by Isis the Scientist

...because she sent me the Lab Safety Song:

Never were muppets more cool.

That little muffin makes me absolutely crazy, but today I think I love her.

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I'm thinking about sending this to all the grad students in my department.... :D

Posted by: ktbug ladydid | November 16, 2009 9:38 AM

Delurking to say, Safety training day would have been so much better if it involved muppets.

Posted by: LapPixie | November 16, 2009 9:45 AM

EVERYTHING is better with puppets. Maybe we could start sending in video applications to NIH... Reviewers would probably appreciate it more than the shortened application...

My favorite part are the singing reagents.

Posted by: Pascale | November 16, 2009 9:53 AM

As an undergrad, I did a two year stint as a lab assistant for freshman chem. It was pretty much what you would imagine. I've now sent the link for this video to the professor!

Posted by: ms physics | November 16, 2009 4:09 PM

Now I can't get the song out of my head!!!

Posted by: studyzone | November 16, 2009 5:42 PM

That's nice, but the same singer did a nanotechnology song that's got a better rhythm to it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFoC-uxRqCg

Posted by: Alex | November 16, 2009 9:09 PM

Sorry to emerge from lurkerdom with my Mr Grumpy hat on, but unless we got Barney the purple dinosaur involved as well could we possibly be any more condescending?

I can't resist the temptation to quote Dorothy Parker's review of The House at Pooh Corner: "Tonstant Weader fwowed up".

Posted by: Michael Albert | November 16, 2009 9:26 PM

The Goddess is most benevolent.

Mr. Grumpy- yes, it could be worse. Do you remember your first lab safety videos? I seem to remember some horrible theatrical blood-on-a-fake-limb-with-ginormous-piece-of-broken-glassware-sticking-out, but not any respect for my intelligence. Certainly not as much respect as the makers of this video show for my sense of style.

Posted by: becca | November 16, 2009 11:12 PM

I identify with the purple muppet. I want to pet the pretty flame, too.

Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow.

Posted by: Sanguinity | November 17, 2009 9:21 AM

watching this had two effects on me:
1. ptsd-like memories of my first college chemistry class.
2. the strange, dawning realization that my cooking obsession is the ideal substitute for chemistry labs....

Posted by: Monisha | November 17, 2009 11:36 AM

OOOOH. I want to show this next semester. I cannot get my students to pay attention during the safety lecture...

Posted by: UnlikelyGrad | November 17, 2009 6:14 PM

Where were their lab coats? If they had these, then I wouldn't have to blather through the safety procedures for my classes and just show this :oP. Except maybe the part about pregnancy and the lab.....I don't know if muppets can cover that.

Posted by: The Science Dilettante | November 18, 2009 5:59 AM