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I work in a cleanroom.
It looks more like the bottom picture than I'd like to admit.
I mean, it's not called a tidy room, is it now?
So more like a misnomer room
You can be clean and messy at the same time.
At least that's what my wife tells me
Can confirm, that's what his wife tells him.
Clean (no particulates) room that is messy (scattered large objects)
More like "Industry" vs "Academia". I love the work at the nonprofit academic lab, but I miss the cleanness, efficiency, and prettiness of the for-profit lab. 🥲
I design labs and to be honest it ends up being kinda a mix of both unless we're talking some major FAB
Maybe in cGMP labs, my for profit experience definitely looks like the latter image lol
I am not seeing the random lunch, which should really really not be here, in the bottom picture. Did the photographer pick it up first?
Movies never show the undergrads hunched over benches getting thumb cramps from pipetting all day.
Lab boss in real life: "see if you can make oatmeal addictive"
labs do look like this, but only when freshly build and before actual research group gets in
Labs for teaching in university students will often look like a much older version of the above. Actual research labs will tend to look like below
an interior decorator + lab tech makes for a powerful combination
Any space*
"No lunches in this fridge. Human biological specimens only"