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Nerds on the twatters

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Nerds on the twatters
« on: January 09, 2013, 09:54:36 AM »
If you need a little laugh today, i spotted this and thought you'd all like this...



Yesterday, a neuroscience postdoc by the name of Leigh started a hashtag on twitter called #overlyhonestmethods. Then came the confessions.
 
Have you ever conducted scientific research? Are you familiar with the less-than-glamorous (and sometimes surprisingly slipshod) ways of the world's overworked, underpaid, and severely caffeinated scientists? Then #overlyhonestmethods is probably the funniest thing you'll read today.



so, actual tweets from the strict and always by the book, scientific community  :-X



Miriam Goldstein

"We sampled opportunistically"=leaned over the side of the ship with a dipnet, pausing to curse my short arms & barf.



dr leigh

we did experiment 2 because we didn't know what the fuck to make of experiment 1



Atif Kukaswadia
@MrEpid

We don't know how the results were obtained. The postdoc who did all the work has since left to start a bakery.



banmans
@banmans

Oh, you want an actual method you can follow? Pffft. Check the cover son, you're reading Nature.



Karen James
@kejames

Taq was incubated o/n at 20ºC because there were donuts in the break room & I forgot to put it back in the freezer.



Drug Monkey
@drugmonkeyblog

Two days to isolate the protein, five weeks to generate the hilarious double-entendre name for the gene.



Kane_WMC_Lab
@Kane_WMC_Lab

All experimenters -- and authors -- were blind to the study's hypotheses.



Rebecca Weinberg
@sciliz

rat sacrifices were performed to Tom Petty, because that's how we roll in this lab



Tal Yarkoni
@talyarkoni

we discovered the anxiogenic properties of our new drug accidentally, while trying to fuck with labmate Steve's coffee



George Burgess
@Ixcila

@MadukaOgba This experiment only works if you use the TBAF that's been sitting in our cabinet for eight years



NatC
@SciTriGrrl

This project was started to prove someone wrong. They were not. Dammit



Nancy Parmalee
@nparmalee

@SciTriGrrl @Geeka "We did it this way out of adherence to folklore and superstition."



Doctor_Strange
@StrangeSource

We repeated the experiment 5 times but never saw results this good before or since so we made a figure.



Neuroskeptic
@Neuro_Skeptic

The first author didn't write this Methods section and doesn't understand half of it



Proflikesubstance
@ProfLikeSubst

Though it all sounds tight now, we had no sweet fucking clue what we were doing when this started



Alex Wild
@Myrmecos

Our sampling locations happen to match tropical resort towns because field work doesn't have to be mud and agony.



Emma
@atomselectrons

This dye was selected because the bottle was within reach




Bora Zivkovic
@BoraZ

We wanted to see what would happen if we did X, just for fun. Great explosion! We came up with the hypothesis later.     



Sylvain Deville
@devillesylvain

we didn't read half of the papers we cite because they are behind a paywall

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Re: Nerds on the twatters
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2013, 10:44:46 AM »
Excellent.  Nothing like a little refreshing honesty.
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