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BenchLife: Managing Your Life in the Lab

July 23, 2011 by Patricia R. Kivett No Comments »

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The Path to Happiness in Research there are no flying monkeys, but this yellow brick road will lead you straight to happiness
Repetitive Strain Injury: The Hidden Lab Hazard - learn to recognize the early symptoms before ever picking up a pipette
How to Choose a Good Scientific Problem learning to identify the elements that make up a great project is vitally important
The Keys to a Great Hypothesis a poorly constructed hypothesis can waste time and ultimately kill a project
The Importance of Side Projects whats that saying about all your eggs in one basket? Well its true in research too
It Worked 3 Times…(Out of How Many?) - how many times do we need to perform an experiment before convincing ourselves the result is real?
The Lab Panic Button - before even starting an experiment, go through these important steps to ensure everyones safety
How to Keep a Lab Notebook although they may seem like a pain, an improperly kept notebook could cost you millions
H-index: What it is and How to Find Yours this emerging author metric is a substitute for the widely used, and flawed, impact factor
Wunderlist Task Management: Give Your Brain a Present the only to-list manager you need (and its free!)
Whats in a Name? are you a biological chemist, biochemist, or chemical biologist? (Or does it even matter)

5 Laboratory Techniques that’ll Get You Punched in the Face avoid the most irritating and annoying lab habits if you want to keep your million dollar smile
Make Labmates, Not Enemies sure you may have been king or queen of the hill in your old job, but when joining a new lab, follow these tips to make the transition smooth for everyone
Lab Etiquette: Don’t Make Us Call Supernanny being a good labmate involves many of the basic principles we should have learned in kindergarten
Could You Be the Worlds Worst Labmate? if you think theres a chance, take this quiz to find out

Words Your Boss Will Never Say no need to get your hopes up, youre not gonna hear it
Five Ways Scientists Waste Time when beginning a project, we should be sure weve checked off the items on this list or risk wasting a lot of time spinning our wheels
Stay Motivated in Lab sure its easy when starting or finishing a project its just that whole middle period where things can get dicey
Do You Recognize the 7 Early Signs of Lab Apathy? sometimes apathy creeps up on us and before we know it weve lost interest in our project completely here are some signs to watch out for

The Tightrope: Finding Balance as a Scientist Mom youre crying for your experiments and your kids are crying for you what to do next?
Make Your PI Love You being an employee is a game. If you play the game as your boss wants you to, you usually succeed. Here are some of the rules
How to Behave Around the Boss although the lab environment may at times seem more casual than a traditional office work place, our behavior around the boss should be carefully controlled
What to Expect When You’re Expectingin Lab pregnancy is difficult enough without the sights, sounds and smell of a lab environment- how to navigate the lab and boss when youre expecting
Sleep Your Way to Better Science no sleep frequently yields no results and now theres science to prove why
Organize Your Life: Getting Things Done scattered thoughts? short attention span? feel overwhelmed? This simple system will help you gain control of your life and give your brain a much-needed rest
Leaving Grad School Early: Get Outta Town or Hang Around? when the going gets tough, is leaving the best option?

Training Your Autopilot even if your mind wanders during a repetitive assay, your body will always know what to do
Assay Pipetting prevent the horrible Oh no! Did I already add substrate to that tube?! feeling with this simple system
When in Doubt, Throw it Out how can just a few words save days, weeks and even months of time? Take a few minutes to learn them
Send Email Without the Worry clicking send prematurely can be one of the scariest moments in email. Never send an accidental email again with these tips and resources

5 Library Resources You Should be Using Now a science librarian walks us through the resources wed be foolish to overlook
Five (Plus) Web Resources You Should Be Using Now great (and free!) research tools that can manage citations, file sharing and much more
Back of the Envelope Calculations a list of some of the most common scientific numbers we should probably all have memorized
The Art of Organizing Your Literature technology affords us a number of upgrades on the old-school stack of papers take advantage of them
Three Steps to Mastering Literature Searches you cant organize literature if you cant find it

Drosophila melanogaster: The Fruit Fly this organism has been buzzing around the lab for over 100 years
C. elegans: Getting to Know Your Worms 19 reasons worms are a great model organism and a great introduction to their life cycle and biology
Researchs Next Top Model: Zebrafish this increasingly popular organism simplifies drug testing and has even been to space
Neurospora crassa: The Almighty Fungi this organism served as the foundation of biochemical genetics and played a central role in a Nobel prize
Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Yeast Rising in Research its not just for beer and bread anymore see why yeast make a great model organism
Were Gonna Need a Bigger Lab: Large Animal Models in Research sometimes bigger is better so see what larger animals are most commonly used in lab and why
Eek! The Mouse maybe one of the most famous model organisms used in research, mice have played a role in research in almost every disease imaginable
Tetrahymena: Little Creatures, Big Discoveries a mindbogglingly complex unicellular organism- its even got a mouth and a posterior