Interesting read on "Finding my leadership style" by Helen Walden. A personal reflection on being a PI, a Head of School with a side order of doing so as a woman.
Sorry, it's paywalled (and I have to say very difficult to access even with a subscription) but I enjoyed reading it.
#lablife
A rare group picture after lab meeting, glad the lab is growing with PhD student Xinghua Li is settling in and new MSc student Farhiya Hasan starting
I am glad to say I passed my #probation. it doesnt mean much in the current UK university climate. But at least my job is secure (for now). When I started the post in the mid of pandemic, I was rather pathemistic about this, thanks to our dept (Genetics and Genome Biology) seniors and @NeurogeneticsLeicester , I was helped all the way through from getting grants, teaching and setting up lab, recruiting lab members. #lablife#academicchatter
now it is time to do my year one #researchfish😱
Had a very good day doing some fly pushing on the bench and the lab meeting went well discussing research ideas forward with PhD students. Days like this keep me going #lablife#drosophila
... to understand how to work with trainees and colleagues from just about everywhere around the world. Full of examples of how cultural expectations ruin the day, and how to notice, anticipate and overcome the divides.
#Sustainability#lablife
Contemplating energy consumption after my training course on ESD (education for sustainability development): #Drosophila stock keeping require monthly labour, food resources and energy, cryogenic procedure are developing to reduce these, with the recovery rate still improving. For #cell culture lab, do you have a figure on the difference between continuous cell passage VS cryogenics storage? Intuition is the latter is better with energy, but do we have data for this?