Time for a therapy session.
Man I hate this. My cortisol levels must be through the roof. I tested my clones and got weird results. I was racking my brain all weekend trying to figure out why. Then yesterday I tested a positive control, and got negative results. I feel like I'm trapped in the twilight zone. (I would have rather been at the ASCB meeting.)
What to do?
One advice that I got long time ago - if things don't work anymore, throw away all your reagents and start all over. It's the best advice that anyone has ever given me.
So today I'm doing exactly that.
More like this
Alright. I understand the prohibition on not taking photos of presenters' data.
However, prohibiting Twittering?
For all my microbiology/cell biology peeps, this could be a neat opportunity. ASCB has obtained a two-year stimulus grant from NIH to assemble an image library of the cell.
... and I'm not there. If there's anything noteworthy, please leave a comment.
Some scientists from this blog attended the annual meeting of the American Society of Cell Biology recently and came across a poster by none other than Jonathan Wells of the Discovery Institute.
So, unfortunately, Nick was right: you thought that you were climbing up, when in fact you were climbing down.
That's the life of a postdoc...
That's so true it's sad.