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.
https://gizmodo.com/here-are-the-fifteen-professions-that-drink-the-most-co-5948206
Seriously. If you’ve ever wanted to laugh in amusement/sadness/resignation at something your non-sciencey friends & family will never understand, this is totally your huckleberry. Sort of like PostSecret meets whatshouldwecall[insert terminal degree here]. Just a handful of our recent favorites:
https://twitter.com/embed/status/288759956591755264
https://twitter.com/embed/status/288404892710744065
We don't know how the results were obtained. The postdoc who did all the work has since left to start a bakery. #overlyhonestmethods
— Atif Kukaswadia, PhD (@DrEpid) January 8, 2013
Oh, you want an actual method you can follow? Pffft. Check the cover son, you're reading Nature. #overlyhonestmethods
— The Biotech Bro (real non-blue checkmarked human) (@thebiotechbro) January 8, 2013
Taq was incubated o/n at 20ºC because there were donuts in the break room & I forgot to put it back in the freezer. #overlyhonestmethods
— Dr. Karen James (@kejames) January 8, 2013
Two days to isolate the protein, five weeks to generate the hilarious double-entendre name for the gene. #overlyhonestmethods #flynerds
— Drug Monkey (@drugmonkeyblog) January 8, 2013
All experimenters — and authors — were blind to the study's hypotheses. #OverlyHonestMethods
— Michael J. Kane 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@Kane_WMC_Lab) January 8, 2013
rat sacrifices were performed to Tom Petty, because that's how we roll in this lab #toodark? #overlyhonestmethods
— A scientific lizard 🧬🦎 (@sciliz) January 8, 2013
https://twitter.com/embed/status/288666908025315328
https://twitter.com/embed/status/288709037279809536
@SciTriGrrl @Geeka "We did it this way out of adherence to folklore and superstition." #overlyhonestmethods
— Nancy Parmalee (@nparmalee) January 7, 2013
We repeated the experiment 5 times but never saw results this good before or since so we made a figure. #overlyhonestmethods
— Doctor_Strange (@StrangeSource) January 7, 2013
The first author didn't write this Methods section and doesn't understand half of it. #overlyhonestmethods
— Neuroskeptic 🇺🇦 (@Neuro_Skeptic) January 8, 2013
Though it all sounds tight now, we had no sweet fucking clue what we were doing when this started #overlyhonestmethods
— Pröf-like Substance (@ProfLikeSubst) January 8, 2013
https://twitter.com/embed/status/288669113113513984
This dye was selected because the bottle was within reach #overlyhonestmethods
— Emma (@atomselectrons) January 7, 2013
We wanted to see what would happen if we did X, just for fun. Great explosion! We came up with the hypothesis later. #overlyhonestmethods
— Bora Zivkovic (@BoraZ) January 8, 2013
https://twitter.com/embed/status/288746793842393092
Tons more on Twitter. Some other curated tweets available here.
