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ErrantWritings

The proliferation of lab snacks

The world of lab consumable sales is a competitive battle field of cut throat companies all fighting over a handful of confused researchers. Each company looking for a weapon in their arsenal to give them an edge. Much like that metaphor those poor researchers end up feeling stretched and confused. Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 3 years15 January 2020 ago
Clutter

A guide to Science Secret Santa

It’s December, and labs across the globe (probably) are running Secret Santas in order to keep festive spirits up. For those readers unfamiliar with the concept of a Secret Santa, the idea is that a bunch of you get together, stick your names in a hat, or these days an Read more…

By Michelle Reeve, 4 years3 December 2018 ago
ErrantWritings

How to train an outdoors researcher: a terrible guide

Researchers are a varied bunch. Some researchers are very much indoor researchers and don’t ever leave the warm comforts of modern indoor heating systems. Others are wild and free and can sometimes go days without ever returning to fresh food and indoor toilets. Researchers themselves tend to have a preference Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 4 years17 October 2018 ago
ErrantWritings

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 pizza is the food of love. If Shakespeare had been more science minded then he would have seen that music is the ‘snack of science’, it’s not required but it sure Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 5 years27 September 2017 ago
ErrantWritings

How to reply to reviewers: a terrible guide that no one should follow…

Despite my prolific blog output, I managed to find time earlier this year to write a paper. It was a labour of love, passion and frustration at Word’s image handling system. As a new academic and as a proto-academic, I have been given lots of training on how to write papers. They Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 6 years19 October 2016 ago
ErrantComics

Comic: the secret life of success in the lab

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 6 years21 September 2016 ago
ErrantWritings

Post doc time management

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 9 years21 May 2014 ago
ErrantWritings

Tradition, in Science

Scientists are not infallible. In Research, we always strive to follow the scientific method to resolve problems but sometime a bit of human fallacy creeps and occasionally you find scientists doing very silly things because “that’s just how it works” or “the previous student said I had to do it Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 9 years26 March 2014 ago
Round and round we go
ErrantWritings

The Funding Cycle

When we started up this blog I had hoped to post a bit more educational content on the workings of the sensors we develop and the research that we do. Sadly, however, I have been nowhere near a lab in what feels like months. Partly this is because I have Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 10 years21 November 2012 ago
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