Some things are harder to swallow

I was so hoping it would survive. The little mouse with the kidney problem. But here is what’s left of her.
The piece of the scalp that her mother thought too hard to swallow. She ate the brains though.
Poor little thing. And poor me who had to take care of the remains

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happy reunion

I’ve spent a wonderful two days at Hyytiälä, a research center north of Tampere, together with both current and former colleagues. It was great to see the people from Shimmi group again and just made me realize how much I miss them!!
A full program of lectures, a poster session and food food food. Here we are at [...]

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Finnish, the most difficult language in the world

Poor Matteo, he is taking a course in Finnish and to help him out Juha has thought him some useful phrases. Now every time they meet, Matteo greets Juha with a happy: Mitäs äijä! Something he obviously thought ment “what’s up!”
M: I tried to say “Mitäs äijä” to a girl but she got real pissed off. [...]

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Today a day like other days

Today.
I couldn’t get access to the work plan I’m writing until one o’clock. They had some problem with the network service.
I couldn’t add references to my work plan. RefWorks is an idiotic program.
I couldn’t transfer a mouse to another cage since it was running and jumping like crazy. I had to ask one of the animal [...]

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Things that’ve made me happy this week

*The best yoghurt in Finland – Kalinka top, by Ingman. Totally artificial. When other yoghurt brag about containing real berries, this one only contains some kind of froth. But it tastes great!

*After living without mascara for two weeks due to a stubborn eye infection I now have great lashes
*Other things that make you [...]

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I have some work to do

Here is the infamous sign – now with the addition of Oliver’s skull.

And yes, it says ubuntu on our door as Matteo has declared it a Linux zone. I have not yet succumbed to the idea…
If you want to see what my colleagues have done in their lives you can just look them up on PubMed.
Friday evening [...]

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Colleagues

I must say that I work with a great bunch of people! Here are some of the names that I’ve had to memorize since I moved to Turku:
Pia, Pia, Jenni, Jenny, Heidi, Heidi, Heidi, Heidi, Susanna, Susanna, Mirja, Matteo, Olivier, Hanna, Katja, Tarja, Emmi, Juho, Jussi, Adolfo, Sonia, Petra, Matti, Heikki, Erica, Hannele, Jonna, Johanna, [...]

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mini vacation

This Friday I’ll take the boat to Sweden.
And I sure need the break. Today was another of those days where you wonder why you went to work at all. Everything failed and I have to do the same PCR for what feels like the trillionth time… After finishing my PhD I’ll have the patience to [...]

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Work and no play

My room mate at work (maybe it’s called office mate) has gone on maternity leave and now I’m all alone in our office. That’s not really true since Matteo and Oliver are sitting in the room as well, it’s only that they are foreigners and as such they tend to come to work around 11-12 o’clock. [...]

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Today

today’s topic: piercings between breasts and when you alt. your child got rid of the pacifier (tutten)
today’s e-mail: “If you feel bad about your “environmental footprint” in the WB lab, hug the hood, remove pollution and plant some new boxes of pipette tips there.” A not so angry letter about how you can improve the [...]

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Some things

I got my 13th mumin-mug this weekend
At work I’m forced to wear a lab-coat from the 80’s, unfortunately my outfits lack the shoulderpads to fill it up.
In our office people spontaneously burst into song – “boom boom boom boom, I want you in my room, lets spend the night together, together in my [...]

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Pigs

We talked about pigs in class today.
Or rather how to make them do what you want them to. The best way to make a 100kg animal walk in the right direction.
The teacher suggested pushing them with something that looked like the shields policemen use at riots. He pointed out that it shouldn’t have any holes [...]

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