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Yeah, I hate to stereotype biologists but it's true, there is a serious safety culture deficiency.

I learned cell culture from a guy that didn't wear gloves while working under BSL-2 conditions. Back then, I thought he was so cool. Now, what a moron.

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My sister is a biologist, she was invited to work in a lab in her first year of university already, and her lab professor left her in charge of running the lab in general, even above PhD students because she was the only one that used all equipment correctly, safely and in an organized manner.... My sister even berates her professor when he is disorganized or forget stuff

A lot of that comes from who their mentors were and the conditions of their lab. They're often missing vital safety materials and the senior scientists have already given in to apathy. I've heard plenty of horror stories but it always comes back to "that's just how we do things in our lab, oh well"

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