Lab etiquette Memes

The great equalizer of humanity? Death. The great deformer of humanity? Scheduling a 5+ hour NMR during work hours. Every chemist knows the sacred rule: those long magnetic resonance experiments belong in the nighttime slot! Break this commandment and evolution takes a bizarre turn—your skull morphs into something distinctly non-homo sapien. The lab hierarchy is clear: no matter your gender, race, or socioeconomic status, hogging the NMR during prime research hours makes you the true lab villain. Your colleagues silently plotting your demise while refreshing the instrument calendar is basically natural selection at work.