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science content creator 🧬🔬, flaming homosexual™ 🥵🏳️‍🌈, biochemistry & theatre UT alum 🤘🏼, represented by @a3artistsagency

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oh my gosh 😳
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my great grandpa, a famous chef, just vibing on the side in precolonial Vietnam (1930)
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and that’s on cellular immunity 😗
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my cousins and I pretending I got into harvard bc we were bored
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and that’s on protein synthesis 😤
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how i imagine the lab exiting during an actual fire
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me in high school when i found out rosalind franklin was robbed 😪
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who knew chloroplasts can get so lit
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me doubting myself and forgetting which wells I already added my samples to 🥴
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of course, with the hydrolysis of ATP 🥴
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this is how I imagine cells generating ATP
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me when i joined my first lab 🥴
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me: *doesn’t balance out centrifuge* centrifuge:
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y’all got me feeling insecure
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i was planning to do a voiceover explaining gel electrophoresis, but the background noise sounds so therapeutic 😩👌🏽
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pipette up
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wow, it’s been a year since I made this video choose your character 💃🏻
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Cute names to call your lab partner: 1. babe 2. honey 3. sugar 4. sucrose 5. 5.8 g NaCl 6. 1 M NaOH 7. dissolve in 150 mL of H2O 8. store at 4°C
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clearly, there’s beef between substrates and competitive inhibitors
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aaaand we’re getting ready for translation 🤪👌🏽
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so don’t try to act so innocent 😳
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never doing secret santa with this lab ever again
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and das on atp synthesis 💥
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Science but make it fashion, pt. 2 💃🏻🧬🧪
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i cannot stop watching this video
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when the p-value is less than 0.05
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lolol i’m kidding i’m kidding
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The first video that started my whole lab shenanigans account 🤷🏻‍♂️ what if we reviewed scientific instruments like how Youtubers review makeup??
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when you’re in the middle of an experiment and halfway you realize you’re out of a reagent
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and that’s on meiosis I 🤪
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me after running experiments in complete silence for 5 hours
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i guess i’ll start making more lab asmr videos 🙃
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and that’s on the actin-myosin cross-bridge cycle 💃🏻
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sorry, but due to inflation, gibbs energy will no longer be free
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some science drag queen names: - sarah logical - elektra phoresis - jean regulation - sarah tonin - nora penny phrine - ivy profen - cathy cholamine - maya tosis - ana phase - maya cardio infarction - ethel alcohol - mei osis - auntie body
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i say we normalize using “sus” in the scientific setting
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actual live imaging of a killer T-cell in action wow
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every lab that eats out at a restaurant 🤷🏻‍♂️
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scientists running a western blot for the first time
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and that’s on the immune system 😤
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when lab etiquette also carries over to the kitchen 😅
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true story 😔
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Um check the VIP list again... my name should be on there, Kim Wipés
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pre-med students writing their personal statements
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with no proofreading ability, reverse transcriptase makes several errors when transcribing RNA into DNA 🥴
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I mean, the cytoplasm helps out a bit during glycolysis 🤷🏻‍♂️
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happy #WomenInSTEM day! if you are NOT a woman in STEM, you are NOT legally allowed to talk today
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unlike eukaryotes, prokaryotic transcription and translation occur simultaneously 😌
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my test tubes inside the centrifuge:
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scientists taking pictures for their next instagram post
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Science but make it fashion, pt. 3 📦💅🏼🤷🏻‍♂️
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me unable to draw anything in organic chemistry
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me trying to do the most before the microwave timer goes off
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me and my lab on our way to grab free pizza at the 12 pm seminar
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actual footage of me taking intro to biochemistry 😗
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actual footage of me as an undergrad
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and i—oop 😗
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he really said “Live, Lab, Love ☺️”
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substrates and inhibitors competing for an enzyme’s active site
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hi uh... i have this room reserved from 1 to 3, and it’s currently 1:03 sooo... 🥺👉🏼👈🏼
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sometimes when a mouse bites you, you just gotta play it off 🤷🏻‍♂️
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and that’s on oxygenated blood 🤷🏻‍♂️
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cells right before apoptosis:
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what i hear whenever i receive constructive criticism during lab meeting
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if research labs were an acapella group 🎶
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marry me atp synthase 🥵
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i don’t think y’all have ever my voice before soooo
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this is why i always remember to mute myself on zoom
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everyone in lab introducing themselves to the new rotation student
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lab mate: are you going to the seminar? me: nah, it doesn’t seem interesting also me after the seminar:
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caption this
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wow what are the odds that @JLo and I would be wearing the same isolation gown today??
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work hard, play hard. yeah, we get turnt up 👏🏼
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let’s confuse the white people
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me when my undergrad student runs a successful western blot
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the four horsemen of the coronacalpse
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wow mama, i made it 🥴
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this is how i picture latent viruses 😂
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and that’s on performance anxiety 🥴
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not really sure why our microwave isn’t working :////
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me in lab pretending to be the main character
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and that’s on eukaryotic pre-mRNA processing 😌
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i would do the experiment, but i’m afraid of messing up
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scientists adding “elucidating” to their paper title:
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I’m looking back at my gen chem notes from freshman year of college and this is what I find 😂😂😂
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my PI introducing me to other PIs at conferences
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me drinking coffee so i can focus in lab 😌
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every time i run to stop my gel 🥴
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sis, he doesn’t even like you. he’s just using you for your lab’s antibodies
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beginning of the decade vs. end of the decade 🥴
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category is... social distancing 💃🏻
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me when I joined a well-funded lab
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