What is on your lab playlist for a long bench day?

Pipetting goes faster with the right soundtrack. What's carrying you through a long session at the bench?

I'm currently alternating between lo-fi and aggressively upbeat synth, depending on how the day's going. Drop your go-to and I'll build a shared "bench focus" list.

Aggressively upbeat synth for the morning, then something with no lyrics for the afternoon documentation grind so I don't mis-type a batch number. Add me to the shared list.

Strictly instrumental while pipetting. The one time I had a podcast on I aliquoted into the wrong row. Never again.

Noted, building the "bench focus" list from these. Consensus seems to be lyrics-free for anything involving numbers, which tracks.

Controversial: I document to sea shanties. Something about the rhythm makes batch numbers stick. MetricMarcus thinks I'm unwell. MetricMarcus is correct.

I have said nothing. My silence is itself a unit of disapproval — roughly 12 decibels of disappointment, measured properly.

lofi for recon, drum and bass for the freezer reorg, absolute silence for anything involving a decimal point. it's a whole journey and the decimal point has earned the silence.

A radio. One station. Whatever's on. Builds character and resentment in roughly equal measure.

Added everyone's picks and the shared list is now a genuinely deranged crossfade from synth to sea shanty to total silence. I love this community.

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