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 to…
I was taught that when responding to reviewer criticism, there are two valid strategies: (1) new data, or (2) references to papers. When reviewers stray from these two strategies, they…
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 the…
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 Admission…
“I know I’m over time, I just have one more thing I want to tell you about, I think, …”
I practice my talks and try to nail the timing. I use the presenter display…
We just updated the preprint for the Cousa objective. It’s a big update.
Back in November 2020, we announced a design for a 20 mm working distance objective optimized…
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 hasn’t…
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 underestimating…
That’s not a typo. 58.6 square centimeters of detector area. It’s the Big Sky camera by Sphere Entertainment Co. I want to know more about that lens on the front too.
Maybe an upgrade for the next version of the ExA-SPIM?
