I spend «down» time reading papers, chatting science
with my lab mates or advisor, or getting other work done (at the beginning of my graduate career, this was class assignments or grading for my teaching assignments... lately, it's writing!).
A first step toward getting along
with your lab mates (or anyone, for that matter) is acknowledging that they may be hard - wired to approach problems in a certain way.
You may be tempted to work exclusively
with the lab mates you have a good rapport with and ignore those you find hard to deal with, despite their valuable knowledge and skills.
Prepare for those meetings by talking things over
with your lab mates.
But you can succeed if you put your mind to it, and participating in gripe sessions
with your lab mates may lock your subconscious — or, for that matter, your conscious — onto the wrong track.
I'm encouraged to argue
with my lab mates and my adviser, and I win praise for making things up — that is, for coming up with ideas and solving problems in creative ways.
It involves learning about experimental procedures, research independence, communicating your scientific work with fellow scientists, and developing productive collaboration
with lab mates and other people.
You can develop good communication skills while in a university setting simply by interacting
with lab mates and learning about and being supportive of their projects.
That time I'm eating lunch in the conference room
with my lab mates when the statistic that 1 in 4 college women experience sexual assault comes up.
I also commiserated
with lab mates about ongoing financial struggles.
Sitting in the lab late at night
with a lab mate and complaining (yet again) about your current mentor, project, or position won't really solve anything, although it might make you feel a little better.
Not exact matches
In some cases, the problem is in relationships
with advisors, while others have problems
with inconsiderate — or cruel —
lab mates and colleagues.
I'm talking about consciously not mentioning sensitive information in e-mails — for instance, e-mails to that
mate of yours who works in a
lab that collaborates
with your main competitors.
They don't eat the same diet, nor do they like to
mate with each other — though
lab experiments show they can still interbreed.
I began to read the literature in my discipline and discuss experiments and results
with my advisor,
lab mates, or any one in my department.
While all your suited and booted
mates were swanning around the bright lights in their graduate trainee positions and earning pots of cash, you were scabbing about in jeans and T - shirt in the
lab, wrestling
with the darkest secrets of nature.
That
lab is much more ethnically diverse and I find myself more comfortable
with them than my
lab mates.
Help a
lab mate with a project to learn some new science.
Working closely
with Scott Pitnick, Mollie Manier, and other colleagues in SU's Pitnick
Lab, he is able to observe ejaculate - female interactions and sperm competition in hybrid
matings.
Labs like this thrive on lots of small collaborations, so learn to work well
with your
mates.
In
lab experiments, the designer flies successfully competed
with non-GM males for
mates and caused the population to nosedive within 10 weeks (BMC Biology, doi.org/nvd).
But in the past decade, they have learned that bumps on trees called galls are the result of conjugation between soil bacteria and plant cells, and they've seen Escherichia coli
mate with yeast in the
lab.
Working
with a professor and
lab mates from back home make for an easier, more congenial experience than plunging into a strictly American cultural environment.
Ginseng provokes excitement, enhances endurance, and in
lab studies
with female rats there was even an increase in their ability to attract male rats during
mating season.
«What people say they want in a
mate and what qualities they actually seek don't tend to correspond,» said Coye Cheshire, an associate professor at the School of Information at Berkeley who has studied this
with Mr. Fiore, Professor Mendelsohn and Lindsay Shaw Taylor, a member of the school's self, identity and relationships
lab.
Rather than using a battery of surveys and a matchmaking algorithm to pair potential dates like many other popular dating sites, Cupid believes that «the best way to find a compatible romantic partner is to spend time getting to know local singles — not by trusting some guys in
lab coats to match you
with your soul
mate based on superficial test results.»
Navigating from class to class, Vayne must complete assignments
with his colorful
lab -
mates before time runs out or suffer poor marks and be subjected to harder remedial assignments.
This is the first known investigation to examine the role of peer entry as a means to determine the social competence of boys
with ADHD as they joined
lab - based games played by age -
mates who were good friends but unfamiliar
with entry boys.