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Where oh were does all the waste go

Given the exotic and exciting things that scientist play with and produce you’d think that waste disposal would be staggeringly complicated. Special buckets for certain kinds of goo, shredders for tentacles and mops specifically for flaming puddles would seem to be the bare minimum an average lab would need. Actually Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 2 weeks11 January 2023 ago
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Lab news article: IF AI = 1 THEN Partridge = 0

Contemplating the potential for personal redundancy as a result of too much daydreaming, Dr Matthew Partridge risks another few hours musing over the benefits and limits of laboratory processes run entirely by super-efficient, highly focused AI and robotics…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 12 months9 February 2022 ago
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Aim for something, anything!

To an outside observer research has a great air of focus, planning and careful consideration. From vaccine research to Nobel prize winning physics, research looks well organised and planned. To anyone that has ever worked in research then the reality is often confusion and a lot of eye rolling. But, Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 2 years23 February 2021 ago
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How to be a resilient researcher

Humans are an inventive bunch. We’re not long out of the trees and our brains have already given us literature, art and the sciences. We are a creative species that constantly seeks to invent, create and problem solve. However, as smart as we are Nature is often one of the Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 2 years13 January 2021 ago
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Morning the loss of trade shows

There have been many changes since the start of the COVID crisis. For one the frequency of articles that start “something something COVID crisis” have sky rocketed and I’ve never started so many emails with “I hope you are well” and meant it with genuine concern. But one change was Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 2 years9 December 2020 ago
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Talk to you experiments

Experiments are complicated and difficult things. Experiments are amazing sources of unpredictable chaos no matter how simple they seem. In some ways, this unpredictable complexity is a good thing. Many of those researchers and scientists reading this article have based entire careers on the fact that what they do is complicated Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 5 years20 June 2018 ago
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Scientists and coffee shops

Coffee shops are the place to do work. I can say with the certainty of someone making up a fact that every Costa an Starbucks right now has at least one author writing a novella about a troubled young teenager trying to understand their place in a society that hates Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 5 years16 May 2018 ago
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Getting to know your many tentacled admin monster

Starting a new job is an exciting, terrifying and exhausting experience. You’ll almost certainly have a giant volume of new scientific material to absorb as well as countless names to fail at remembering and office fridge etiquette to understand. But before you get to any of those problems you still Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 5 years10 January 2018 ago
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“It’ll be good for your CV”

When I was about 13 I started at a new school. Starting a school aged 13 you don’t get a lot of choices about what you get to do, which is fair as I remember me aged 13 and I wouldn’t have trusted me to decide on a sandwich filling, Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 5 years8 November 2017 ago
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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 the ridiculous hours required by the second one. But either way, I spend more time inside basking in the glow of fluorescent tubes (or tubes of fancy, expensive energy saving Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 6 years12 July 2017 ago

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