Flipping Lab Meetings
100% of research labs have LAB MEETINGS. 0% are set up to enable everyone to have a voice. This is how we flipped them to increase engagement, hear from everyone, and save time...
How to draw listeners into your story
Imagine you’ve been invited for a presentation, a talk, or a pitch. You’ve been allotted 15- maybe 30-minutes to share your story. Turns out, you only have a few seconds to grab someone’s interest. You need a hook.
A publishing problem
If I needed to send every article to a ghostly editor of this site's publishing platform to read and decide whether it's interesting enough, you'd never read an article here and I would be stuck in publishing limbo. This absurd universe describes the academic publishing system.
An approach problem
I want to start by telling a story about a young scientist. This young scientist had everything that you would
A funding problem
In 1999, the NIH set a modular budget of $250,000/year. In the past 20+ years, the modular budget has not moved. Ask any academic scientist about the hardest part of the job, and they will undoubtedly say funding.
Alternative mechanisms
Scientists consider alternative mechanisms for diseases or genes all the time. This is what the path to discovery looks like. But rarely do we consider alternative mechanisms for how something is done. Why this discrepancy in thinking?
Redesigning the digital lab
At the beginning of the pandemic, labs shuttered. Everything quickly moved online. Despite some successes, the community quickly realized these experiments largely failed. While some choose to ignore these results, others are designing new experiments to run a successful lab in this digital century.
