An account full of silly science comics & occasionally irreverent blog posts. For new content, see our website or one of our other social media accounts.

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So we’re sorry to say that we’ll no longer be posting cartoons here on X. You can continue to see all our cartoons updated daily on Mastodon, BlueSky, Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook. But our time on X has come to an end.
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ErrantScience started its social media journey back in 2015 here on Twitter. It was a great place to share our cartoons and stories about science, and somewhere we’ve loved being 💙
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So we’re sorry to say that we’ll no longer be posting cartoons here on X. You can continue to see all our cartoons updated daily on Mastodon, BlueSky, Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook. But our time on X has come to an end.
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Just before getting lost in trying to organised anything with project management software, my last words were 'Fly, you fools!'
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Not included in this cartoon are people that use transition effects as I'd rather not give them any more attention than they already clearly crave
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Uninterruptible power supplies are great at lulling you into a false sense of security
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If you have something that you don't want thrown away the number of notices you need is always n 1. Much data has been lost this way
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Wearing your lab coat open so it flows behind you as you walk around makes you look super cool* *Warning: May result in some mild death
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Stupid meetings always holding me back from a productive day
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The fastest way to have the lab to yourself is to ask who's turn it is to clean something, works everytime
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As the old saying goes "The equipment on the other lab bench is always fancier"
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Is it a growing book debt of shame or am I just in massive book credit 📚
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The lab will also be a striking pastel colour and the scientist was played by Bill Murray
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This cartoon is in memory of the Ultra Sensitive Biosensors lab that was moved above the NMR suite... turns out there were some 'issues'
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Do a nice thing for your lab mates today. Everyone deserves some positivity in their day, and it's probably not going to come from their experiments.
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An ErrantScience PhD working hours cartoon from 2018 that we were inspired to reshare this week
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Other games at the research casino include funding poker where you are only allowed one card and the dealer glances at it briefly and tells you if you've won or lost seemingly at random
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Self appraisals an exciting management tool that results in little appraising and a lot of stressing #management
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I'm not sure making your own ChatGPT instance with a few commands qualifies as a custom AI, but that doesn't stop marketing departments
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