I used to float tables with tanks. They didn’t need to be changed very often, but it did need to occur, and it was a pain. I’ve used house air before, and house nitrogen, but they were dirty and/or unreliable.
We’ve been using compressors in recent years, and in particular these compressors from Newport (hat…
With the New Year, one change our lab is making is a purely superficial one. We will no longer refer to groups of collaborators as “collaborations”. Instead, we will refer to them as “supergroups”.
Another little bit from lab. This showed up in a lab discussion:
I asked my lab to please buy these basic items. I assured them that we have sufficient funding to buy…
I do tag-team 1-on-1 meetings in the morning before the group lab meeting. Instead of blocking out 30-60 minutes per person on a standing basis, it’s just first-come first-served, and it’s however long that person wants / the meeting takes. And then I let the lab know when I’m available again. Images, memes, emojis, and…
I get a lot of email from students that are interested in graduate school. Many of these emails are automated. They are from real students, who want…
From Rob Campbell. Here’s a link to the job posting.
The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, is recruiting an in vivo multiphoton specialist who will be based in the Advanced Microscopy Facility but work throughout…
It has been heartbreaking watching my daughter get excited about robot toys– and all of their fantastic behaviors that she has read about and seen in fictional shows — only to be ultimately disappointed at how lame they are…
There are so many campus murders, usually with guns, that most of us are not too removed from them. Maybe you’ve been on campus during a shooting, and if not, then maybe you are colleagues or personal friends with people who have been though that trauma. How many degrees of separation are you from…
The meeting hall for a student club.
An interesting study recently came out:
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of…
Scientific publishing is essentially a solved problem.
Research dissemination is almost free. For hundreds of years, humankind relied on printed material and postage or shipping to share their work. That…
This post will probably mean more to me than it means to any of you dear readers. But maybe someone will recognize a bit of themselves in it. Or maybe I’m…
What drives you?
I’ve been speaking with undergraduates a lot recently, consulting about their career plans, and the discussions can be interesting.
I tinkered a lot as a kid– taking things apart, modifying them, doing crude experiments. Maybe you did similar things. One time I found something interesting and shared it with mother. She asked, “When…
