Why I love doing what I do?

If you follow me on twitter or you have spoken to me or just happen to be around you will know
How F***ed up I am currently with my experiments...I am in the phase..yeah PHASE where things just go wrong or don't work for some unknown reasons and all you have is a horrible day/week/month -PHASE in the lab!!!

The irony is...still I want to write or I am in the mood to write yes! about the

"Pleasures in doing Science(biology)"

photos clicked by vidhi patel

I have been blessed by some truly AWESOME ( here even awesome is an understatement) moments for which I LIVE and do SCIENCE.

I may never in my Life win a Noble, I won't! But surely more than once I Win through some moments that make me happy amidst the situations when things are difficult! 

These moments may neither be big events nor be to be bragged about success stories...they are simple and yet they put a huge SMILE on otherwise tensed face!

The moment when-

• the tube inside the electroporator doesn't arc...

• after n rounds of cloning et al the plate shows the clones/mutants the sight of that off-white small tiny-tiny colony! :)

• the gel picture has bands of perfect size (so perfect that the reviewers might suspect it to be Photoshopped)

• positive and negative controls are picture perfect! Specially the negative control!!!

• at one go I hit the bulls eye... pick up the right number of tubes and weigh the right quantity!

• I start with a new project and it looks all interesting and the euphoria of looking at new things is like the one when you are gifted with a new toy!

• I read an amazing piece of literature...listen/read to a logical and well reasoned argument!

• when I talk to a biggie in the field! You always want to meet and talk to the successful well established peers in your field! 

• when after an Eureka moment things START MAKING SENSE

• I am satisfied (though never) and happy as to what I am doing!(mind you very few people fall into this category)

and THE moment for which all of us...every researcher works hard,contemplates,procrastinates 

INVENTION/DISCOVERY/FINDING (peer reviewed :P)

Such moments just "work" they are part of enjoying your job and its just not me it seems it happens to best of us... like my friend working in Computational Biology says 'The kind of joy and satisfaction he gets once he is through a difficult to code Code is surreal'

While we pursue the Questions we ask we also 

Cherish the Moments that lead to it!

And This is part of sharing 'those' moments -

(via twitter)

AndyKraemer Nascent Biologist 

Meetings always re-energize me - they remind me why being a scientist is so much fun! #evol11

 AlecJRoss Alec Ross 

20 years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee published his proposal for the World Wide Web. The proposal http://www.w3.org/Proposal.html

  
 @edyong209 @RogerHighfield
It's about time the public realised science is mainly done by 23 yr olds with hangovers.

  
khedkarsupriya supriya khedkar
1of d reasons I luv Lif sci: it has many best kept secrets waitin 2 be fathomed,each findin addin new dimension 2 ur understanding of life..

   
edyong209 Ed Yong RT ed by khedkarsupriya
MUHAHAHA! I have full individual access to ScienceDirect. (I have no idea how; possibly in response to an email I sent months ago)

   
NeilWithers Neil Withers by khedkarsupriya

Very handy! Bookmarked RT @JonSatriani: My new favourite site: http://copypastecharacter.com/.

khedkarsupriya supriya khedkar
Almost forgot in the middle of the hectic day that was - CSIR AWARD LETTER IS "FINALLY" HERE!!!! :)

khedkarsupriya supriya khedkar
when I say I LIKE discussing science-biology and fundamental questions in biology...I actually LOVE it!!!

A year in relationship with...

A yr in relationship with...

TWITTER :P

 …this is how it looked like :P everything happened  jus through  one simple question

“What’s happening?”

Time(date) line

1^st Jan 2010

@khedkarsupriya Account Created

3^rd Jan 2010

First tweet - Beginning to live life..."140 character" size!

18th Jan 2010

First Link - Googlism...Is google god?http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org/Scripture/Proof_Google_Is_God.html ...Smarter way to address religious beliefs:)

26^th Apr 2010

First Sci Celeb follower – Matt Riddley Follows me on twitter…yayy!!!!

5^th May 2010

First contribution to twitter lingo - Tweetbuster : Sachin Tendulkar on twitter @sachin_rt

9^th May 2010

First mention of blog - http://meme-collection.blogspot.com/ Happy Mother's Day!!!

 Gyan

good edu insti= (co-curricular+extra-curricular) activities + ample of opportunities = keeping students on the toes :)

"Things to do after exam" and "sleep" have no intersection if represented using a venn diagram! intersection is actually a null set...;)

It is in the best of human interest that majority of the human population believes in #god, one god would have been ideal though!

why do somethings seem so obvious after their discovery? they never seem so obvious before that at any pt of time ??? #science

I love and respect ' Homo sapiens ' they make 'FRIENDS' 'BEST FRIENDS' and 'FRIENDSHIP' :)

encounter with failure is necessary to take failure positively and talk abt it... it is an imp lesson learnt! so it better be early

whn u dont know something...u get the freedom and liberty to speculate anything, which is logical of course!

shld eat whn u r hungry and not whn its 'the' time to eat! like now :P

it makes REAL sense to do things...when u FEEL the NEED for it! like getting drunk :P

when ppl say short term memory loss they actually mean gold fish memory!

Hawking trending 4 sounding Atheist! he might not but millions out thr do believe in god! God can definitely start TT's if not universe lol

Murphy's Unspeakable Law: As soon as you mention something.. if it's good, it goes away. If it's bad, it happens(almst alwys happens 2 me):|

ABUSE is the best form of anger management evolved till date! I believe in it...everyone should!

@twitter

tweet on twitter and not twit on twitter or tweet on tweeter..anyways keep tweeting :P :D :) tweet (almost sounds lik a hiccup now) tweet

Formula 4 networking/influence index=(Twitter followers)x2+(FB connections)divided by2(2010 TIME 100)compute tweet,profile info in d making!

twitter stats r worth researching on!spl.ly wld b interesting 2 lk at d popularity as function of time,followers,RT n appearance of cheaters

Answer to life universe and everything (on twitter) is '140' (not 42)...thankfully we already know the Question??? What's happening?

 aft sumtime social netwking bcomes boring but this isn't d case wid "twitter" definitely not wid "blog" n will nevr happen 2 ur inbox

min. val of(following/followers)^no.of tweets shws u hrdly listn-u dont care wat ppl think abt u-still ppl follow u-u r famous-u r d king!!!

Tweets that remind me of AWESOME time dated then…

what do i like abt twitter? Don't know? all i know is i love twitter..its simple, its social n not so social at d same time ;)

on twitter u should knw whom 2 follow, coz it is 'the' thing tat decides wat u r going to read n wat awesome things u might stumble upon!

wat can potentially trend on twitter can never be predicted accurately! analogous 2 protein structure predictions, selection pressures et al

Trending on twitter is analogous to being on TV during the good old days..mostly a tru n definitely a direct replica of being famous! #saina

RT aka retweet

NeilWithers Neil Withers 

 by khedkarsupriya

@edyong209 @RogerHighfield It's about time the public realised science is mainly done by 23 yr olds with hangovers.

sardesairajdeep Rajdeep Sardesai 

 by khedkarsupriya

world cup like world war 2. the french surrendered early, americans arrived at last minute, british left to fight germans!

fakingnews Faking News

by khedkarsupriya

I wish Sachin was playing right now after scoring a 300, and Obama would have known who matters more to us.

Pseudo RT

A tweet read : Tendulkar: Reducing the no of Atheists since 1989

:)

logged on 2 twitter- n thr r already 10 interesting links to chk :) something #awesome aft a epic lab frustration #fail later #win day!

70,000 characters-500 tweets-56 followers-67following- 'n'(#awesome) on #twitter since 01-01-10... ! :) :D :)

at this hour FM radio #mumbai plays #awesome songs...btw #Radiofreq 94.3 plays #awesome english songs in the night... :)

@susmit93 all i hav to say whn u act smart infront of me is 'i m equally smart + 6yrs (exp.+practice acting smart)' :P #sillysibfights

i enjoy putting my views/ideas into words and reading it at a later point ... it makes life look beautiful !!!

vry 1st interaction wid Nobel Laureate Dr Venki Ramakrishnan d best part being listening to those historic moments!!!

yet another #sunday...but this one's awesome!!! the pleasant weather, a cup of tea and reading TOI at leisure plus some awesome music!!!

http://bit.ly/9oCMyu aftr reading this,1thing i am sure of-its a 'pain' to try n explain layman the complexity that underlies bio systems!

http://fb.me/Ckfdbryf i dont knw wat it read after this "nascent Origins-of-Life Initiative" MAN...plz enroll me to Harvard grad school!

someone made my day today ...on the epic journey from Pune to mum...it was awesome talking to a complete stranger!

wish could have an awesome discussion today..my mind is in a gr8 mood of spurting ideas and aphorisms!!!

and so it went on....and continues to be #awesome and when my blog link can be tweeted on twitter Why not Twitter on blog! :) :D :)

 I hope tweeple enjoy reading it...and can possibly connect to their twitter time! :)

For someone who isn’t on twitter or is figuring out wat it is…

Facebook is for the people in your class! ..Twitter is for people you wish were in your class :D

Also an advice from my side…

It’s the most important thing to follow right people in life… if you succeed you have an awesome time on twitter; no whr u get to ignore, block and not follow the known stay away types and follow the unknown befriend types J

Hope this relationship continues for years to come…Happy New Year!

An official guide to twitter lingo. Enjoy!