Ways to keep cool in the lab
The summer is here! The official start of the summer in the UK is a momentous occasion and is triggered
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Lab
Talk to you experiments
Experiments are complicated and difficult things. Experiments are amazing sources of unpredictable chaos no matter how simple they seem. In
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I am based in the UK. The UK has two very specific properties that I like very much. Firstly, the
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Writing and labs, the research ebb and flow
Life tends to ebb and flow with workloads, personal crisises and famously, how many busses arrive at any given time.
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Tips for playing music in the lab
Shakespeare wrote that “If music be the food of love, then play on”. Clearly he was wrong, everyone knows that
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The disadvantage of being an unemployed academic
Time are tough. We’re not quite at a ‘Mad Max apocalyptic scenario’ tough, but things are tough. Countries around the world
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Field working, the horror of having to do science outside!
I don’t get out much – both socially, and from a research perspective. The first one is mostly due to
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Research, and a legacy of terrible computers
A little while ago I got a new laser system. It’s a very nice laser system and can laser in
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