Back from a very busy two-week holiday break. I’m almost certainly fatter than when I left, and I’m definitely more appreciative of the weather here after walking around a frigid NYC. After 3.5 work days I’m almost acclimated to the return to normal eating habits, regular exercise, and diurnal hours. Not that I like it, […]
Continue Reading...It is only 9:30AM and already this feels like one of those days where I’m going to get nothing done except hurdling roadblocks.
I understand the purpose, in theory, of lab safety inspectors. But when they show up at 8:50AM on Monday and proceed to tell me that the computer in the incubator room should […]
Sometimes I can forget how long ago - and how many professional levels ago - my undergraduate days really were. When one is a wizened old postdoc it’s hard not to want to take a budding young scientist under your wing, teach them everything you know (or at least what can be taught in 8 […]
Continue Reading...I have Tetris-retina burn-in, except with flies instead of falling shapes. You see, I’ve been doing this massive fly screening project for three days now, which means 8-10 hours per day staring at flies through a dissecting scope. I’m only used to a few, being primarily an electrophysiologist and not so much a geneticist or […]
Continue Reading...Many researchers will tell you that daily life in the lab is often characterized by long stretches of failure and/or monotony that is punctuated by brief and exhilarating moments of unanticipated success or good fortune. You toil away at a problem for weeks and finally have an epiphany one average afternoon. You tweak […]
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