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My kids think I'm a boffin
A science teacher stumbles over a stereotype
Mrs Oppenheimer's woes
Amy Charles reviews the opera
Dr. Atomic
Art and architecture
Oxford Biochemistry tries something different
Fish out of water
On artist-
in-residency at London's Science Museum
... and more!
Past highlights
The image that draws the writer
Amy Charles on science illustrations
The Day After Today
Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
Dr. Flirt
Can a PhD attract women?
Bad cop
Guardian
columnist Ben Goldacre defrocks the pseudoscientists
Unkind literature
Lewis Wolpert ponders fictional science bad guys
The Glider
Martin Raff recalls a childhood bust-up
Marketing lab lit fiction
An experiment with Waterstone's
Sex in the lab
What's Kat Arney wearing under her white coat?
LabLit survey
Fear that someone else will publish their work first
Nagging idea that they may have forgotten to stop their experiment before heading home
Notion that their life may have become too one-dimensional
Anxiety that all their non-scientist colleagues are earning far more
The prospect that their theory might be fatally flawed
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In the news
What is LabLit.com?
- Learn more on the
Guardian
's 'Science Weekly' podcast
"From bench to book"
- LabLit's editor reviews 3 novels in
Nature
Behind the scenes
- Q&A of LabLit's editor in
Nature
"Image and imagination: overhauling the reputation of scientists"
- LabLit's editor in
Laboratory News
"LabLit is all about encouraging the use of realistic depictions of science and scientists in realistic fiction"
- Scott Keir,
Nature Network London
"Why aren't white coats sexy?"
- LabLit's editor writes in
The Biochemist
"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
"Experimental fiction"
- LabLit's editor talks fiction in
Nature
"A light touch and some panache"
- LabLit reviewed by
The Biochemist