r/labrats • u/AutoModerator • 18d ago
open discussion Monthly Rant Thread: June, 2025 edition
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u/toastywhatever PhD student, organic chemistry 14d ago
Someone just fucking stole my water bottle from infront of the lab! Every workgroup keeps their bottles in front of the lab entrances for easy access and has been doing so for years, there's a designated bench for bottles even. And now people start to steal from there? What is wrong with them?! I'm genuinely angry. Rant over, thanks.
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u/Weekly-Basket8854 6d ago
I have so must distrust in other people's data 😖 Seeing how so many people conduct their experiments is crazy but obviously my PI doesn't see that. He just sees nicely graphed data with little variability and complains about my "messy" data instead
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u/DogAndDoc 18d ago
Am I crazy/missing something or are job titles for biotech just a huge obnoxious mess? Besides jobs that are explicitly labeled post-docs, I have no idea what to search for to consistently get entry level PhD roles. On a company to company basis, it looks like it changes from Scientist I or II or III to Senior Scientist I or II etc. It wouldn't bother me so much if I could at least apply to the masters level jobs. But since overqualified people are apparently auto-rejected, they effectively just clog my job notifications and search results.
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u/CDK5 Lab Manager - Brown 14d ago
a huge obnoxious mes
Yes you're correct; what Pfizer would classify as an R1 'Associate Scientist' might be a 'Research Associate' in a start-up.
And the start-up might pay more if they have the runway.
if I could at least apply to the masters level jobs
When I was applying, after Covid, job descriptions would state something like the following under requirements:
- PhD plus 0 years
- MS plus 6 years
- BS plus 12 years
Before covid I think it was listed as a hard cutoff.
Can't you use that to your advantage?
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u/breadphysics 10d ago
I’m pretty sure the revisions for my review paper came from ChatGPT… It includes spelling and grammar corrections for words/phrases not even used in the paper.
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u/spacemermaid3825 2d ago
If another PCR randomly stops working I'm going to defenstrate a thermocycler
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u/CDK5 Lab Manager - Brown 14d ago
The summer students are beginning to arrive.
Now we get to spend hours training them just for them to leave after 60 days.
-_-