Wit can convey important truths about critical thinking and the scientific method, especially when group leaders poke fun at themselves in the process.
The unofficial rules of Derek Pociask’s immunology laboratory, scrawled across a glass cabinet above one of the benches, can elicit odd looks from passers-by:And the very specific: “All cytokines/chemokines + anything important is to be aliquoted and LABELED with date/concentration.”
Such adages, enshrined on lab T-shirts or even trending as Twitter hashtags, can be silly, but they can convey serious truths about what it means to think critically and succeed in academia. Indeed, these sometimes-trite sayings often stem from years of hard-earned wisdom amassed by principal investigators , who hope to spare their students the pain of lessons learnt the difficult way.
Sunil Hingorani, an oncologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, has so many maxims that his staff made a bingo card for lab meetings . One of his mottos, ‘Stop doing stupid stuff’,that was handed out during a fundraising walk for pancreatic cancer in 2021.
to document Beatty’s quirky statements alongside new work from the group and highlights from the field. Beatty, who doesn’t use social media much himself, was at first slightly alarmed by the teasing, he says, but has since become surprisingly tolerant of it. “It’s flattering that your students listen to you, and you get a chance to see what actually is resonating with them,” he says, adding that the account “certainly does create a certain level of attention for the lab”.
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