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Ashish Avasthi - The confusing power of "yes". 

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Ashish Avasthi - The confusing power of "yes". 

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So, this episode happened during Christmas days when I was working in the lab alone while my colleagues were on holidays.
I was asked to implant tumors in animal (rats) by a colleague as a favor.
When I went in animal house, there were a few different species of rats. However, since the said colleague never told me the purpose of the experiments, I didn't know which species was I supposed to implant. So, I texted the person, "Hey, do you need me to implant sprague-dawley, wistar or long-evans (species of rats)"? to which the person's response was -  "YES".
I was spellbound, laughing hysterically but at the same time couldn't be more confused with a response that read yes.

Ever sincethen, I have incorporated this habit of replying to questions as a confusing yes and I couldn't be more happy. ;)

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In a thermodynamics lab class, in the study of heat of solutions, I ask a student what the temperature in the thermometer after the reaction is:

A-(very fast) 92 ºC

I reply, "Well then, considering that it is an aqueous solution, we should be close to the boiling temperature of water? Can you see that? Just to check and considering that it is a dilute solution and that there is no danger to your skin put a finger inside the solution and say what you feel? and check the temperature and again.

A- It is between hot and cold. and 92ºC.

Already without patience, I answer, considering what you feel, the boiling temperature of water….maybe, maybe…. the temperature you are reading will be 29 ºC. Check please :)

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You can place your story in this area. :)

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Someone was coughing in the lab, and my experiment retrieved human virus in my sample. I was working with fungi. Then I was awarded with the title: "chief of the virus department"

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Someone was coughing in the lab, and my experiment retrieved human virus in my sample. I was working with fungi. Then I was awarded with the title: "chief of the virus department"

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Some months ago I was telematically explaining to a new colleague from other location the way we carry on our tests. In our lab, we follow a standard that declares that the final value of a parameter has to be lower than a 3 % to consider the test as successful. And if you write in your chat <3, then you have to be aware that what the other person will do receive will be a red heart!! :D :D

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Ruben Pastilha - Liquid for clear vision

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Ruben Pastilha - Liquid for clear vision

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I did an internship in an optometry clinic to collect data for a research assignment during my master’s in optometry, and I have a story from that experience about language misunderstanding.

One day, an old lady with pink glasses burst onto the entrance with her eyes bold red, loudly complaining about a bottle she bought a few days before. We kindly approach her and examine her eyes – they were extremely inflamed. She kept shouting that the bottle we sold her must have been expired.

We asked her to show us the bottle. She swiftly fetches a tiny bottle from her purse and angrily extends her hand out exposing the product.

It was one of those spray cleaners you use to clean the lenses of your glasses. The label showed bold colorful words like “CLEAR FACTOR” and “WILL CLEAR YOUR VISION”.

She looks at us and says: “I keep using it, but my vision has not become clear. The more I use it the less clear I see!”.

- Can you show us how you use it? She looked offended (I was scared at this point). Angrily, she puts her glasses down, points the spray in towards her eyes and… “Pschitt” “Pschitt”

The moral of the story is: always make sure that your patients understand the use of any products you recommend and that there are no misleading labels – especially important for geriatric patients. No wonder, that her eyes were so irritated. No one told her that the liquid was for the lenses not her eyes.

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Some time ago I booked an hotel in Córdoba for Easter holidays and move around it at the south of Spain. Once there, we realized that the booking was in Córdoba, but in the one in Argentina...

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Once at a conference, after the presentations a music event was planned. The music was created by means of a device with a touchable screen in which different elements were placed and connected. Depending on the connections, some colored waves were appearing on the screen, and then the music was generated. Most of us were looking at the device instead of dancing... 😅🕺💃🎵

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Nuria Mateo - Cleaning to the point of ruining it 

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Nuria Mateo - Cleaning to the point of ruining it 

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I was doing my PhD at the lab of analytical chemistry where it was usual to have the typical wash bottles of plastic for water:ethanol, but as they worked with many other solvents for different sample extractions, apparently some of those wash bottles were not just containing just ethanol and water in all cases... I was rinsing my micropipet to clean it while I noticed it was getting stickier and stickier... then the smell made me realise something was going really wrong, it was acetone! I felt so embarrassed to have ruined the pipet, but something good after all... since the accident I got my own set of pipets (guess the technicians did not trust sharing with me their pipets anymore 😅)

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While I was studying abroad in Indianápolis, I stayed in a dorm. Once, one girl hurt her finger so I went to the front desk and I asked for some stitches (super proud of myself because I knew the word from the song “Stitches” from Shawn Mendence). The lady in charge was shocked, nervous and she started yelling if we needed an ambulance. I told her that it wasn’t that bad while showing her with gestures the size of the wound. In that moment she started laughing and gave me a “plaster” showing me the difference between the words. Of course, words that I would never forget.

By: Marta Andueza

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Months ago, I was measuring the conductivity of some nanofluids and I achieved increases up to 200% compared to the base fluid. I thought I had discovered something incredible and somebody would give me the Nobel Prize, but it was a joke, my coworkers changed the samples and I was measuring coffee from the faculty machine. :)

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Once upon a time, when the owner of these words were working in a research with ferromagnetic microwires a fringe situation happened. It was the first time that I had sent a paper to a scient's magazine. As anyone in this circumstance, I was so nervous. Can you imagine? Your name could be pass through history in golden letters. Regrettably, I was deluding myself into being extremely positive. The first version was rejected. Knowing that, I didn't give up and used the best tools that I had. What it was so surprising was the fact that I had it nearby. It was my colleagues who helped me and let me know that the figures were more important than the literature of the text.
I hope that that advice aids me to win this wonderful contest...