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2 Kinds
Submitted 3 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Crackhappy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is disturbing. I have had this debate so many times at my work.
LegoBrickOnFire@lemmy.world 3 months ago
1, a, 3 ?
(I just find it weird people write their 2s as ‘a’…)
CoolMatt@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
No, it’s 7, 2, 3
LegoBrickOnFire@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I can’t unsee it now :(
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 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.
JoYo@lemmy.ml 3 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.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I’m sure there is a secret, third kind, a labeless unruly dark force to rule them none.
oberstoffensichtlich@feddit.org 3 months ago
There’s also the kinds of people, who write K, C, MDMA, 2C-B, A, S on their Eppendorfs.
Godort@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Top is correct. The number matches to a document that has all the relevant info.
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 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
The_v@lemmy.world 3 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.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Yea but 2 keeps people from throwing it away during clean outs.
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
If you’re not there for the clean out then it’s time for them to go anyway.
EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Could you use masking tape and label the tray?
criticon@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Allegedly
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 3 months ago
And people say pointers are hard.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 3 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.
oo1@lemmings.world 3 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.