Me: *asks Gemini to flag differences in a list of culture media formulations*

Gemini: "A Tale of Two Media: An In-Depth Analysis of Media Formulations. For cell culturists, the choice of media is paramount to experimental success. Differences in media composition have significant impact..."

Little scientist ego boost today when my custom-designed qPCR primer pairs for GAPDH were all within acceptable efficiency range, except for the IDT "ready-made" pair that I purchased on the side, which was by far the least efficient. Also - despair that people are wasting money on a bad pair!

Sharing something near and dear to my heart - unions! Many moons ago, I and thousands of other grad students at UBC voted to unionize to improve working conditions. UBC disputed, and thus the case ended up at British Columbia's Labour Relations Board, where it has been delayed for several years.

I've finally joined the Twitter exodus and moved over to Bluesky. I mostly favourite, but sometimes I post, about mRNA therapeutics. DMs and mentions always open to chat science, hockey, and cats!

Some other platforms:
www.linkedin.com/in/danieldtandrews
orcid.org/0000-0002-50...