FYI, because I know this confusion happens: This is not an official account. I'm just some dude who is weird enough to make an account dedicated to making jokes about how awesome Parafilm is. Don't feel bad about unfollowing, if that's not what you followed for
PARAFILM IS A SEMI-TRANSPARENT, FLEXIBLE FILM COMPOSED OF A BLEND OF WAXES AND POLYOLEFINS. IT IS A DUCTILE, MALLEABLE, NON-TOXIC, TASTELESS AND ODORLESS, AND SELF-SEALING THERMOPLASTIC.
Did you know that the phrase "wrapping it up for the day" comes from microbiologists wrapping up their Petri dishes at the end of the day, before they crawl back under the incubator to sleep?
Will I be reusing old jokes now that there are 4 times as many people seeing them? Yes. Yes I will. But if any account is allowed to stretch out their material, it's this one
Go on, go use the label maker to label all the scissors the lab as "Parafilmase". You know you want to, and why shouldn't you do it? There is no reason not to.
This is your semi-regular reminder that purple Parafilm is a thing that exists that you can buy with human money for yourself or as a gift for your PI, labmate, lover, friend, enemy, frienemy, or squid!
Parafilm isn't something you own. It's something you share with your lab group, like toothbrushes and the stress of looming deadlines. And I think that's beautiful.
At night, when the lab is empty and no one is looking, the Parafilm just sits there, doing nothing, because it's not alive and can't go on secret adventures.
Whoever said "don't marry another chemical engineer" was clearly not thinking about the potential birthday presents, because this parafilm mug I just received is 🔥.
@saroberts
Yum yum yum!
Parafilm Christmas cookies by Dr. N PhD, !
Made with 3D printed cookie cutters he designed himself (with a little bit of help and encouragement from me in the chat lol). The files should be available at some point in the new year
Like if you like Parafilm
Retweet if you like Parafilm
Comment if you like Parafilm
Read this tweet if you like Parafilm
Scroll past this tweet if you like Parafilm
Have a twitter account if you like Parafilm
Have internet access if you like Parafilm
Exist if you like Parafilm
Yea CRISPR is cool and all, but it was invented literally millions of years ago. Parafilm isn't even 100 years olds, but you don't see endless articles about it and how revolutionary it is 🙄🙄
The days are long, but the years are short…
In honour of feeling sappy over finishing undergrad, I made this sticker inspired by my favourite scientists in Twitter
@Prokaryota
and
@ParafilmM
(lol).
Also, I just opened my own cell bio-themed sticker shop (Aah!)
1/2
Official parafilm ribbon cutting ceremony for our new
#MerckChemistry
Discovery Process Chemistry labs labs in Rahway, NJ! 👏
[Yes, the parafilm was saved 😂]
If you took all the Parafilm on Earth it could stretch to the Moon and back at least like 3 times before all the angry scientists tracked you down and beat your ass.
The same kind of person who picks their pipette tips at random, stores their chemicals in alphabetical order, and doesn't have a favourite pair of tweezers