#FieldWorkFail Hashtag Tells The Hilarious Stories From When Science Goes Wrong

When a honey badger ruins experiment because #honeybadgerdontcare about your #fieldworkfail. Then goes for camera. pic.twitter.com/H49JmGHAM1

— Carrie Seltzer (@carrieseltzer) July 31, 2015

Prof: "Guard the GPS with your life!" Immediately drop GPS. Dive to catch it! ...Right off a cliff. Tumbled all the way down. #fieldworkfail

— Katie Slivensky (@paleopaws) July 31, 2015

@BritishSciFest#fieldworkfail My daughter, tracking water voles, found them to be flying. Frequencies switched with colleague tracking bats

— Len Fisher (@LenFisherScienc) July 31, 2015

Apparently we are tweeting #FieldworkFail stories...a picture is worth 1,000 words. pic.twitter.com/rOKuDM40Cg

— David Shiffman (@WhySharksMatter) July 31, 2015

Group leader read a map wrong. We ended up a mile into an active USAF target range. Left very quickly. #FieldWorkFailpic.twitter.com/G4q2OoT6iL

— TSV (@tattoosandbones) July 31, 2015

Rental car companies probably should ask if you are a field biologist #fieldworkfailpic.twitter.com/dBtzdiCyQB

— Marcella J. Kelly (@marcellajkelly) July 31, 2015

Not controlling height of breaking waves #fieldworkfail#seabirds@RSPBRamseypic.twitter.com/iRLnID7RGG

— Miguel McMinn (@miguelmcminn) July 31, 2015

Surely the most common #fieldworkfail: drinking a tad too much the night before & spending next day lying in a mangrove not collecting data.

— riselya (@AliceRisely) July 31, 2015

RT @AnneWHilborn: When you are collecting cheetah poop and drop some on yourself.

#fieldworkfail

#distractinglysexypic.twitter.com/XeZCTXPg8f

— geographile (@geographile) July 31, 2015

Try out brand new night vision scope, spot leopard, start shaking with excitement. @Lawrence_Ball takes a look, actually cow. #fieldworkfail

— James Borrell (@James_Borrell) July 31, 2015

#FieldworkFail when the wheels actually come off the bus :-) pic.twitter.com/30l5ouEjcs

— Dr Volcano (@dougalearth) July 31, 2015