Don’t talk 🗣️❌

Don’t talk in the cell culture lab! This jeopardizes your work and that of your colleagues 👎.

Some people enter the cell culture lab – talking 🗣️. While they work, they talk 🗣️ (or while they talk, they work 🤷). When they wait for the centrifuge to finish – you guessed it – they talk 🗣️🗣️.

Some even talk, although no one else is around 🗣️❔. That’s generally fine, but not in the cell culture lab 🤨.

Talking, singing, whistling – all common, but totally unnecessary activities in the cell culture lab.

And here are some several airtight arguments why this is such a bad idea:

👉 You distract other people from doing their work properly.

👉 You distract yourself from doing your own work properly.

☝ Distraction happens so quickly. Have you ever calculated how much a failed medium change, or even a failed experiment costs? Not to mention the amount of avoidable plastic waste we produce. Just because we weren’t properly focussed?

Do you need more reasons to be convinced?

👉 You are much more likely to spread bacteria and viruses.

👉 You are likely to spread mycoplasma.

☝ Many different species of germs live in our respiratory tract. When you cough, sneeze, talk, sing, laugh or whistle, you spread aerosols containing entire populations of living organisms just waiting to invade your cultures or those of your colleague’s.

🧘 Calmness, #mindfulness and #concentration are definitely the key to success in the cell culture lab! 😊🙏

#CellCulture #Research #GCCP #LabLife

Author: asban