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Confessions of a science bum
On an unconventional research style
Vicky Ware 20 March 2016
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Love the lab you're with
What in the hell is a Leica?
Frank Lee 3 November 2015
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Chasing the result
A stem cell scientist’s perspective
Anestis Tsakiridis 24 April 2013
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Experiences in lab culture
Meet the inmates
Christina Szalinski 17 March 2013
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A radical moment with Dr. DNA
On an opportune meeting
Lori Bystrom 9 March 2013
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Biology is weird
On the otherworldiness of field work
Tom Mahony 4 August 2012
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Iphigenia in the laboratory
What would you sacrifice for a result?
Julia Richards 1 July 2012
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Alphabet soup
On the acronyms that clog up corporate science
Stella Hill 9 April 2012
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The abandoned cold room
An essay on depression
Julia Richards 12 November 2011
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You are $540
On the price-tagging of a human scientist
Theresia Mina 7 September 2011
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How close do you go?
On breadth versus depth in your scientific approach
Maria Teresa Esposito 25 July 2011
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Things that go beep in the night
On the beauty of significant questions
Adrienne Ross Scanlan 13 July 2011
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Cursed
When that experiment refuses to work
Veronica Akle 26 May 2011
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Cutting edge of retro
Why can't science stand still?
Tom Mahony 19 April 2011
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We are not Golem
On the life of a chemistry PhD student
Ian Strutt 16 April 2011
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The dinosaur shirt
Itinerant scientists must part with their pasts
Manju George 22 February 2011
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The mouse that got away
An experiment which refused to cooperate
Stella Hill 5 December 2010
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Ukrainian plastic surgery
Or, how a PhD can get more exotic
Calum MacKichan 26 October 2010
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March of the dirt people
What are your field colleagues really like?
Tom Mahony 7 September 2010
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The sound of silence
What do scientists hear?
Koen Beumer 11 August 2010
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The art of absence
Some things are more important than science
Ian Brooks 22 June 2010
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Ugly critters
Why rare isn't always beautiful
Tom Mahony 13 June 2010
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Heat exhaustion
On the lesser of two evils
Tom Mahony 17 February 2010
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Healthcare from the forgotten land
Recalling a formative field trip
Lori Bystrom 7 February 2010
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Status quo
When the scientific dream isn't coming true
Nik Papageorgiou 17 December 2009
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The flying laboratory
Stalking Antarctica's shrinking ice
Seelye Martin 23 November 2009
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Mess
In ecology, where do you draw the line?
Tom Mahony 18 November 2009
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Shiny plants
An explosive start to a professional ecology career
Tom Mahony 31 August 2009
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The gentleman's pot farm
On those more discreet scientific discoveries
Tom Mahony 19 July 2009
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Postertution
What's the point of scientific posters?
Prof-like Substance 12 July 2009
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Ecology meets physics envy
On keeping up in the jargon race
Tom Mahony 7 June 2009
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On the fly
Research into butterfly migration proves rewarding
Rebecca Nesbit 30 November 2008
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Big country
An itinerant scientist adapts to Australia
rpg 20 July 2008
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The rising price of gas
Why life scientists make the best hypochondriacs
Ian Brooks 18 May 2008
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The next stage
What do you do when your funding dries up?
Stella Hill 11 May 2008
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Law and disorder
Legal argumentation gets some scientific scrutiny
Ian Brooks 3 February 2008
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Lab Rats: Scene II
A six-part play from the LabLit fiction series
Robin Plevin 3 February 2008
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The scientific schmooze
Opportunity-spotting for PhDs in the market for change
Ian Brooks 11 November 2007
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Forgetting to breathe
Life at the Mauna Kea observatory
David L. Clements 16 September 2007
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A sinister reality
A left-hander braves the right-handed lab
Stella Hill 19 August 2007
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Can't stand the heat?
On the kinship of scientists and chefs
Ian Brooks 29 July 2007
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Time after time
When the experiments come first
Stella Hill 20 May 2007
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The gap beneath your feet
Embracing a life in flux
Ian Brooks 6 May 2007
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Blank slate
An episode of grant-induced writer's block
Ian Brooks 11 February 2007
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Total submission
Do you have what it takes to get your scientific article out there?
Keren Boren 21 January 2007
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Who says science is silent?
Decoding the lab soundscape
Amy Unsworth 7 January 2007
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Chair invasion
How even lab furniture can make your day
Amy Unsworth 5 November 2006
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The untold story
What doesn't make the cut in scientific papers
Matthew Hall 21 October 2006
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Taming your inner geek
'That Guy' on the conference circuit
Ian Brooks 7 October 2006
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Quest for the magic pipette
How timely intervention can make all the difference in science careers
13 August 2006
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Subject hates herself and engages in self-destructive behavior
On genes, behavior and knowing thyself
Suzanne Nguyen 22 July 2006
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The road not taken
When a Ph.D. proves elusive
Christina Rush 15 June 2006
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You call this a job?
On the nowhere land of postdoctoral existence
Ian Brooks 28 May 2006
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Deal with it
To a beginner, the languages of poker and science are equally inscrutable
Ian Brooks 1 May 2006
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Crossing over to the Dark Side
On the transition from scientist to editor
Charvy Narain 1 May 2006
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Playing with Science
On the psychology of laboratory games
Milan de Vries 18 April 2006
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Working hand to mouth
On the hidden dangers of lab life
Ian Brooks 26 March 2006
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How to become a biologist
On a work in progress
Bora Zivkovic 3 March 2006
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The scientific chat-up
How to lure in the ladies with your PhD (it's got to be good for something)
Ian Brooks 26 February 2006
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Developing scientists
Getting from point A to B in the lab
Helen Pickersgill 21 December 2005
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Tough scrutiny
My day under the microscope
Andrew Wood 7 August 2005
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My bizarre lab life
From the sublime to the ridiculous (and the downright mundane)
Helen Pickersgill 5 June 2005
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The PI tells you why
(and you've heard it all before...)
The Eternal Postdoc 19 April 2005
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Researcher on ice
A graduate student enjoys a change of scenery
Kate Hendry 7 March 2005

Coming soon...
- The special ones
  
  Our Young Authors series continues with short fiction from Katrina and Sara
- The plot thickens in 'The ghost of cells past, Part 2'
  
  Our exciting new 4-part story from Deborah Flusberg continues!
- The retraction
  
  The next exciting episode of our serial 'A Momentary Lapse of Reason'!
Past highlights
- Needs must: The great pipette tip caper
  
  New humorous fiction from Julia RIchards
- After the Delhi rapes, a female scientist from India speaks out
  
  Professional women in India have to work in fear - when will it change?
- Live long and prosper: a brief encounter with Aubrey de Grey
  
  Akshat Rathi meets the man who wants to abolish aging
- A lab wager goes horribly wrong: The 50% Sleeper by Tal Yarkoni
  
  Humorous fiction from the LabLit short story series
- The flying laboratory: stalking the shrinking ice of Antarctica
  
  Scientist Seelye Martin reports live from an airborne mission
- Stardom
  
  Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson
- The day after today
  
  Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson

In the news
- "LabLit.com founder and editor, Jenny Rohn, is prone to getting excited over 'hard-core lab scenes.' "
  
  LabLit.com picks another great crop of beach reads for NPR
- "These summer reads have scientists at their heart"
  
  Interview of LabLit.com's editor on NPR
- "It's a great venue for aspiring authors to publish their fiction about scientists"
  
  Interview of LabLit.com's editor on 3M Champions of Science podcast
- Novels about scientists highlight passion and (sometimes) failure
  
  Interview of LabLit.com's editor on NPR
- Lab lit - a lesser-known literary genre that tries to portray scientists realistically, beyond the classic lab coat stereotypes
  
  Science in fiction featured in Nature Physics
- Scientists in space - and beyond
  
  Jenny talks lab lit fiction with Mariella Frostrup on Open Book, BBC Radio 4
- The untapped niche is rich in opportunities for originality
  
  Piece about lab lit fiction in Nature
- Lab Lit Revealed: LabLit.com's editor interviewed by Robert Crease
  
  Piece in Physics World
- "Lab lit? What’s that? Not to be confused with science fiction, lab lit refers to novels with scientists as central characters"
  
  NPR discusses LabLit.com and the genre - or lack thereof
- "[R]research developments have been featuring in novels that depict the world as we know it now."
  
  Piece on LabLit in Oxford Today
- "[A] genre of serious fiction with a snappy new name: lab lit...the webzine LabLit.com...has “Lab Lit Lists” for dozens of novels, films, plays and TV shows
  
  The New York Times likes LabLit.com
- 'Lab lit' is a chance to show what we're really like
  
  The New Scientist talks to Jenny
- Light reading
  
  LabLit helps judge Diamond's science short story competition
- Dedicated to "writing about the science environment, stories that take place in the lab"
  
  51stories.com recommends Lablit.com
- "A clever website...LabLit.com breaks new ground in its portrayal of science and scientists"
  
  BioTechniques Webwatch recommends us
- "Another example of 'lab lit' is Experimental Heart...which I’ll put on my 'to read' list"
  
  - The Boston Globe gets into science novels
- "[Scientists] are usually cast as troublemakers and hardly ever get to be true Hollywood heroes"
  
  Jenny dissects the science behind the movie 'Splice' for BBC News
- "Science is a great topic for a novel"
  
  Interview of LabLit's editor in Lab Times
- A lab lit renaissance?
  
  Jenny's essay in Nature about why science in fiction seems on the rise
- "The loveliness of the Lab Lit List"
  
  Author Michael Byers recommends our collection of science novels
- "Science is only one side of the story"
  
  Jenny from LabLit interviews Billy Bragg for Nature news
- "[Lab lit novels] are not just entertaining tales of biologists at work; they also make the reader think about the unique issues"
  
  Nature Methods recommends LabLit.com
- "[One of] 20 great websites that every scientist, engineering, or geek-at-heart ought to know about"
  
  Baltimore Science News Examiner on LabLit.com
- "[C]heck out [LabLit.com] for more reasons to welcome science to literature"
  
  Cell
- "[W]here literary scientists...can find like-minded people"
  
  Chemistry World on LabLit.com
- What is LabLit.com?
  
  Learn more on the Guardian's 'Science Weekly' podcast
- "It's a wonderful venture, and a topic of the most resonant importance"
  
  novelist Richard Powers on LabLit.com
- "FUN: Still life, with test tube"
  
  Science magazine recommends LabLit
- "A light touch and some panache"
  
  LabLit reviewed by The Biochemist
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