2 Kinds

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• Godort@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Top is correct. The number matches to a document that has all the relevant info.

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  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    one small integer is not enough, two small integers are better (lab journal initials/number and sample number, like AC7-295. something like AC7-295A, then AC7-295B and so on if needed. that’s how i do it anyway) this way there’s no possibility of mixup with other people’s samples and samples described in old lab journals

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    • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Some way to identify the person who wrote it is also helpful. Different cultures write numbers differently.

      The French person reads the top one as 1 , 2, 3.

      The American reads it as 7, 2, 3.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yea but 2 keeps people from throwing it away during clean outs.

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    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you’re not there for the clean out then it’s time for them to go anyway.

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    • EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Could you use masking tape and label the tray?

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  • criticon@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Allegedly

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  • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And people say pointers are hard.

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  • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nearly, some identifier who it’s from is also good. Without one? You can’t complain if I throw it away at the end of the week cleaning.

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  • oo1@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But if they do get jumbled, sorting them back out into different experiments, batches or subjects or time periods might make you prefer some extra info accesible by eye.

    If you’ve got a robot sorter maybe a qr code - but you’d have to be pretty large scale for that to be cheaper than a human.

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• pyrflie@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    YYMMDD-SITE-SAMPLE_ID

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    • pyrflie@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is disturbing. I have had this debate so many times at my work.

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• LegoBrickOnFire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1, a, 3 ?

  (I just find it weird people write their 2s as ‘a’…)

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  • CoolMatt@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, it’s 7, 2, 3

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    • LegoBrickOnFire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can’t unsee it now :(

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  • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s cause they’re lazy and don’t stop the pen when they get to the part where they’re supposed to double back. They draw a circle so they can keep the pen moving and save energy.

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    • scrooge@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s simply a cursive 2.

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• JoYo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was dumb and thought I could outsmart my numbering system so I started doing FIFO for expired specimens.

  dont do this, I am wrong.

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• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m sure there is a secret, third kind, a labeless unruly dark force to rule them none.

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• oberstoffensichtlich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s also the kinds of people, who write K, C, MDMA, 2C-B, A, S on their Eppendorfs.

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