Does anyone know of a brand/model of prescription safety goggles (not glasses) with the prescription integrated into the goggles and not as a separate insert?
I really need to get new safety eyewear and I'd like to maybe get goggles if I can vs. the glasses I've always had for superior protection. But I'm not sure I could tolerate a separate insert, which the only pairs I've seen use.
On a very related note: anyone know if using the "vacu controller" on a fancy buchi rotovap when you don't have the fancy pump with the controller attached is a problem? It is clicking a lot as it adjusts things from my not fancy pump (that I can adjust the vacuum with by hand) and I don't want to damage it. I can always do this entirely by hand if necessary. Though in that case I should maybe move the fancy rotovap out of the hood and just use one of the less fancy ones...
Just found out I wasted 3 weeks of work, a significant amount of solvent and other reagents because the commercial starting material is not what the bottle says it is to add insult to injury what is in the bottle isn't even clean, there is at least one other thing in there.
Hilariously (not really) the only reason I determined this was because I'm making something from the literature and none of my spectra were matching close enough. Went back to the start to check and remade the first step, it produced the same wrong thing. Tried some other conditions, same deal. Finally took an NMR of the starting material today.
I'm fairly familiar with the concept of automation in labs (my supervisor has two different King Fisher automation systems, I've toured UCLA's high throughput drug discovery facility and talked with the director, use an automated NMR on a weekly if not daily basis, etc) and I have some serious questions with this article.
Starting at the end: I really don't think this is going to "democratize science" unless people are renting out time on their already built set-ups to any random person on the street because the barrier to entry is absurdly high in terms of cost of the machines and I doubt the "AI" powered ones are going to be cheaper.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/05/nx-s1-5846973/ai-science-robots-risks-experiments-gingko-bioworks
the paper from the company in question: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.05.703998v1
Luna Trimbuli
Sam Levine
Dr. Ferrous