When you find out that your child is a budding scientific genius.
Is your child texting about #biochemistry?
LOL: liters of lysate
WTF: where’s the fluorescence?
TBH: that baseline’s high…
BRB: better run a bradford
OMG: one more gel
TGIF: that gel is f*cked
LMAO: let me ask online
— Brianna Bibel (@biochem_bri) January 29, 2018
Of course these acronyms don’t mean what these parents have imagined, but OMG, IDK, it was fun to think so. However, if you need a refresher course IRL on “text talk,” click here to get caught up to speed. How many on this list do you know?