It’s a brave new world. Universities, once busy centres of social interaction, intelligent discourse and complex drinking games, have become ghost towns which echo with only the sound of remote learning servers.
Teaching in universities has always been a strange thing. Anyone that has been through the university system is oh too aware of it’s inconsistencies, eccentricities and tweed. But things have suddenly changed….
At the start of the year we had so many cool and exciting plans and I think it safe to say all of those are currently hiding under a blanket fort made of face masks…..
There are lots of reasons that you may need to take a break from working in the lab at some point. Over this year an unprecedented number of people have spent a significant time away from their labs and are only just now starting to go back. This is a Read more…
We’ve made it to May… wow. Over April in-amongst the memes about face masks you might missed these posts from us. Read and enjoy. How to write up a lab book: a terrible guide no one should follow A quick guide to how not to write a lab book. Good Read more…
So last week we put out an article about all the ways you can keep doing research in these lockdown times. The tips range from ones that you can spend hours a day doing, to simple things that take just a few minutes a day. But, I don’t think we Read more…
We may all be stuck at home but there is still science to be done! Admittedly it’s currently very hard to do science that involves large lasers or going outside for more than an hour at a time, but with a bit of creativity there is still research we can Read more…
From my first experiment in primary school (when I dissolved salt in some water and wrote down how long it took) all the way up until the last time I made a saline buffer, I have been writing things down in a lab book. Well I say “writing” obviously most Read more…
We’re in April now and March was mega busy for, well lets face it, everyone. It’s been so busy you might have missed these posts from us. Read and enjoy. Passing a heath and safety inspection: a terrible guide no one should follow A short and handy guide to what Read more…
In my lifetime as a researcher I have made more buffer solutions than I’ve had hot baths. That is to say that, if all the water from all the baths I’ve ever had was compared to the volume of buffer solutions I’ve made, it would be like comparing a glass Read more…