the way it's all necessary and there is no ethical way around it. like okay I guess i just have to become evil to become a researcher
2026-07-15 07:18:33
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Dylan :
bruh those experiments where they connected the bloodstreams of two mice gave me nightmares
2026-07-14 23:31:03
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HDP gets her PhD 🧫🔬🦠 :
Unfortunately we can’t put an immune system in a dish 😅
2026-07-15 03:27:52
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Alejandro Navarro :
Once I took my girlfriend to a party thrown by a bunch of biology grad students (we’re definitely a bad hang I can admit it lol) but one guy said “how many rats am I going to have to kill to get this fucking degree!?”. lol my gf immediately downed the rest of her drink and said “I’m fucking leaving” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 4+ years later we’re still laughing at it
2026-07-14 19:21:38
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Anthony☦️ :
I read a paper once about the benefits of mouse execution via mini mouse guillotines and have never been the same since
2026-07-15 01:03:09
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lillipad.frog :
A friend of mine had to do work for a professor’s mouse lab. I kid you tf not, the work was to drown mice, offer them a popsicle stick to grab onto, take the popsicle stick away, and do it again and again until the mouse stops reaching for the popsicle stick and has “given up on survival” I wish I was kidding. She talks to me about it like a fucking war veteran that was forced to torture kids
2026-07-16 00:25:17
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Eli :
Went to a conference where a South Korean researcher was presenting. They showed a video of a Beagle running around with a messed up gait because of osteoarthritis. Next slide was a cross-section of the dog's pelvis
2026-07-15 00:32:38
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about27birds :
attended a medicine seminar once... mfw they said "80% of the trial participants expired"
2026-07-14 17:01:16
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Madison :
100 level bio lab was like “hey dissect this rat” and 200 level phys lab was like “here disconnect this liveee bullfrog’s spinal cord and brain stem and then play with its heart until it fucking dies”
2026-07-15 04:37:54
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Clickbeetles :
like a billion bugs got blended up for the research i did this year will i still go 2 heaven
2026-07-15 16:44:19
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Paul :
I work in research now, use to work in an animal shelter. The animal shelter was worse
2026-07-15 20:04:55
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bug 🐛 :
Thank god I worked for a professor who really cared about treating our specimens with dignity 😭😭😭 we’d even cover the frogs in my lab with napkins when we’d autopsy them for privacy 😭
2026-07-15 14:46:26
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Stevie :
Just know I hated every minute of my mouse experiments.
2026-07-14 22:23:42
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angela <3 :
c. elegans hate to see me coming
2026-07-15 03:49:05
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A :
Learning in my circadian rhythms class that they cut off the eyeballs of mollusks to observe if they had a different sleep/wake cycle than the ones with their eyes attached 😭😭
2026-07-15 14:58:00
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. :
love working in translational research but hate that in vivo work is a necessary step to getting new compounds into the clinic 😔
2026-07-15 02:42:15
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Daniel :
I’ve accidentally killed so many honey bees while trying to use them as bioindicators for my thesis I feel terrible every time it happens
2026-07-15 23:29:25
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Sunny the MUA💋💋💋 :
& then we can’t fully rely on the findings bc human and rodent physiology/anatomy are not synonymous…….
2026-07-15 17:46:34
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meringuiac :
was literally just reading the supplementary material for an article that used human infant heart tissue. there were details in there for why the infants died and thus had tissue to donate that were so fucking tragic
2026-07-14 21:09:07
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kes :
i started my phd on the 1st of july and ive already killed 14 mice 😬
2026-07-15 19:26:25
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Cat :D :
this was literally me in lab today I was shadowing and a post doc went "wanna see a dissection? 😁"
2026-07-15 04:11:51
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Stephen :
not as bad as the lab rat table guillotine
2026-07-15 06:11:52
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Janzen :) :
Yea we harvested the spleen of each mouse
2026-07-15 05:51:49
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lexie :
we use zebrafish🐟
2026-07-15 03:46:31
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