Angel Lai @_AngelLai

Biophysical chemist. Pittsburgh Penguins enthusiast. Street food addict. instagram.com/sci.angel/ Toronto, Ontario Joined September 2011

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Angel Lai @_AngelLai

6 years ago

Sh*t happens... . I’m sure most scientists will tell you that experiments seldom go exactly how you planned them . Remember the samples for our study that came from my blood? Our lab tech had an oops moment (happens… instagram.com/p/B3rkS2hphhL/…

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Angel Lai @_AngelLai

6 years ago

Lab hack . Ventured into the wet lab for the first time in months and spotted this genius hack by our clever RA. Not sure if other labs do this too, but binder clips are so much cheaper than pipette… instagram.com/p/B2jhNSNhYy2/…

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Angel Lai @_AngelLai

6 years ago

Clinic duties! . One of my favourite parts of this job is going to the cardiology clinic for 3-4 hours on Thursday afternoons to see patients . How did this doctor (PhD, not MD!) end up with clinic duties at a… instagram.com/p/B186WzQBxYt/…

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Angel Lai @_AngelLai

6 years ago

tfw you are the sample . I recruited myself for our study, and had my blood drawn last week. It was a very strange experience to be holding test tubes of my own blood in one hand (they were still warm!), and… instagram.com/p/B1boWWQh-__/…

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Angel Lai @_AngelLai

6 years ago

Repurposing some of my old code, and I want to kick my past self for naming things like “input1” or “data”. If it weren’t for my sporadic comments, I would never figure out what any of this does 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Angel Lai @_AngelLai

6 years ago

Learning how to read ECGs . Another thing to add to my list of things I never though I would learn to do! . I've spent the last few weeks going through patient ECGs and learning how to read them. They're way more… instagram.com/p/BylojZuBcXn/…

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Angel Lai @_AngelLai

6 years ago

You know you’re tired when it’s 10am and you only just realize that you’ve been walking around with your pants on backwards all morning. It’s only Monday 😩

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Angel Lai @_AngelLai

6 years ago

Pretty excited about the new kaggle competition. It’s like it was made for my fellow chemists/NMR spectroscopists! kaggle.com/c/champs-scala…

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Angel Lai @_AngelLai

6 years ago

Electrophysiology 101 . Having never taken an anatomy course (or much bio tbh), there's quite a bit of basic knowledge I need to teach myself for this job. I'm working in the cardiology department now, so I figured… instagram.com/p/ByAoWa9Bxzf/…

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Angel Lai @_AngelLai

6 years ago

Non-Newtonian fluids in space!!

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6 years ago

Non-Newtonian fluids in space!!

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Angel Lai @_AngelLai

6 years ago

An update of sorts It's been about a year since I finished my PhD, and almost 2 months since I've started my new job. Lots of people have been asking what I'm doing now, but I still can't really talk about it… instagram.com/p/BxdxpqUh2sU/…

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Angel Lai @_AngelLai

6 years ago

Changing a gas cylinder for the incubator for the biologists today. This is the closest thing to chemistry I’ve done in about a year (other than baking and making ice cream) 😂 ...and I have a PhD in chemistry 😅

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Angel Lai @_AngelLai

6 years ago

Decided to clean up some of my old files and found a bunch files named “test1.py”, “test2.txt”, etc. Ah good old learning-to-code days 😂

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Angel Lai @_AngelLai

6 years ago

Good thing I don’t have to do helium fills anymore! PSA by @uOttawaNMR u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/2019/04/dying-…

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Angel Lai @_AngelLai

6 years ago

Hard to beat the feeling when you write a new chunk of code and it runs the first time with no bugs 🙌🏻

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Angel Lai @_AngelLai

6 years ago

I just walked past a man holding what looks to be a 2L bag of his own urine. Working in a hospital is.... interesting 🤨

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Angel Lai @_AngelLai

6 years ago

No postdoc? Pretty much THE most common question I was asked during my job search And to be completely honest, I tried this path for a brief moment. I applied for some interesting… instagram.com/p/BwpD-s6B0jB/…