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   Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (_thegeoff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 07:01:08 JST Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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   In my defence, I trained as a physicist with a bit of Earth sciences, but I love it when the biologists throw me curveballs. Mars will come to fear my botany powers. #MapOfACat

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     Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (_thegeoff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 07:01:09 JST Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

     Every day is a school day - especially when you're a science technician.

     Had a query about a haemocytometer, dug around in the store rooms, turns out we have one. Never even heard of them, 5 years into the job.
     It's basically a highly specialised microscope slide, but etched with grids on a similar scale to biological cells (originally used for red blood cells, hence the name), tricky to use but I got the hang of it in half an hour or so. Lovely bit of kit, nice skill to learn.

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.