A selfie captured in a laboratory, generally staged to show an experiment in progress. Often the participants wear inappropriate safety gear to convey a sense of drama and danger as the actuate inactive instruments or pipette colored liquids.
Check out this labfie of me in full personal protective equipment, my gloved finger pushing an inactive button on an obsolete sequencer as I pipette a fluorescent liquid into a scintillation vial and stare, through my respirator hood, at a whiteboard full of math-like scribbles beside a map of coronavirus cases.
by ScientistSF February 20, 2020