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…
It’s almost the end of the summery holidays and even as I type this researchers everywhere are frantically trying to complete they real work before their supervisors return and instantly break everything shortly after saying “Oh, that looks interesting”. The summer holiday period is always tricky for researchers because it Read more…
Yesterday I decided to bail on the 19:00 till 20:00 talk. Turns out trying to do a 12hr stint at a conference is a little bit exhausting. So instead of late night conferencing I sat in the now blissfuly quiet media room, drank coke and wrote up some notes from the Read more…
It’s the Easter break at the moment in the UK, the kids are off from school and thanks to a pair of bank holidays so are lots of adults. The Easter break is short (just 2 weeks) so unlike the summer anyone who’s going away tends to be away at the Read more…
The holiday season is over. The students are starting to arrive at university labs, and parents are busy panicking as they realise that none of their kids’ school kit from last year fits now. Researchers everywhere, in academia and in industry, are slowly returning from whatever sunny locale they have Read more…
February is here, you may have already noticed, as calendars are all the rage these days. This means I am well into planning out my year and what I’m going to be doing to keep myself busy. The first thing is obviously planning how many conferences I can go to Read more…
Every Researcher down in Labville liked Christmas a lot…
But the Lab Manager, in the office above Labville, did NOT!