Unexpected Lab Camping 2/7 – Joe vs the door
Joe snapped out of his glazed expression of panicky realisation, turned back to his desk and snatched up his phone
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Unexpected Lab Camping 1/7 – The clicking!
This week part one of a seven part short story about the life of PhD student Joe and a day/night in the lab.
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Presenting business cards
A few years ago I visited Japan for a symposium. The symposium involved a BBQ and a huge amount of small
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Should you save your data – a flow diagram
This flow diagram is for any researcher that has ever thought of discarding data instead of hoarding it like some kind of research squirrel
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Some days research sucks, keep going
Recently a friend told me a story. Back during her degree she was working on a project with an MSc
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The Errors of ErrantScience
I set these up a while back, but in case you managed to miss them here are some cartoons I
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The why of meeting minutes
When I started out working as a fresh faced happy go lucky scamp (a description that has literally never been
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How to make a cup of tea in a research office
Tea is important. The first time a human found that putting bits of bush into water we’d boiled over a
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Dealing with a lab merger
These are volatile times. In politics, financially, and even literally, if you work for a company that makes self-destructing clocks.
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