Tobias Baskin's sort-of real time science blog
On Tuesday this week, I sauntered into my office to find a man at the desk. The actual officeholder, Prof Maxted, had returned for tutorials, first week of school. Wishing he would have warned me so I could have tidied up the coffee grounds, I decamped to the bench. After taking care of essential lab […]
Horses have crossed the finish line. During the past week, for two of the test growth spaces, roots reached the bottom of the plate (Fig. 1). While the roots grew, once a day*, I marked the position of the root tip on the back of the square plastic plate by making a horizontal scratch with […]
Off to the races! Root races anyway. I have plates with plants growing in four locations around the Biosciences building; two sets of plates from last Friday and two more started Wednesday. Last Friday’s will cross the finish line in a day or two and Wednesday’s some days after that. But until the results are […]
Sunday September 10 A hot week in Biosciences. Hot as in the building sections where I work have minimal air conditioning and the weather decided to usher in September with a week of summer. Not cook-an-egg-on-the-pavement hot but—don’t tell the safety officer—I kept my lab coat unbuttoned. I left work Friday a little after 6 PM […]
Sunday August 20, 2023 Welcome to a new season of Lab-Fab! I hope you enjoy the show. This season is brought to you by the UK’s Royal Society, in the form of a Wolfson Visiting Fellowship, and by the University of Birmingham’s School of Mathematics, who are hosting me, ably abetted by the same Uni’s […]