pipetting

You would be sitting there pipetting away and them boom - tips all over the bench.

Having the 65 year old braintrust spending hours pipetting and staining samples is wildly inefficient.

Learning pipetting and titration is very different from learning $MegaCorps software tool that will be replaced with something else in a few years.

Back in the day there were pipetting robots and 384 well plates.

Because I have a hard time believing the actual motion of the researcher pipetting beats the $500k hamilton liquid handlers...

From pipetting to tiny screws may be slightly related job skills, but it's capturing the least possible value from a generation of highly trained workers...

What I saw instead were people spending the vast majority of their time pipetting.

With the utmost respect to you and the post you responded to, research is about answering questions to things you find interesting; for a biologist, pipetting is simply the means you take to get there.

The rest of the time was spent stacking, unstacking, pipetting, sloshing, scraping, mixing various liquids inside of sterile bio-safety cabinet.

We don’t call pipetting vocational training for biologists or titration vocational for chemists, even though both will be doing a lot of that in professional and research careers.

Wet lab work is ultimately what convinced me that I wanted to work in computational biology rather than spending the rest of my life pipetting!

What are you going to do, have your humanoid robot do the pipetting when there is already a specialized machine that fills trays of 100 samples every 5 seconds?

>[...] Irène Joliot-Curie “had a penchant for asserting that anyone who worried about radiation hazards was not a dedicated scientist.” There are photographs of Joliot-Curie sucking a fluid up a glass tube to move it from one container to another, a practice called mouth pipetting.