Yeah. Short, snappy updates do not mix well with the professorial tendency to focus on the ins and outs of one sub-sub-project for an hour at a time...
Don't get me wrong, the focusing is extremely useful - especially for the person running the actual experiments, but also for me, as evidenced by the reams of notes I take in these sessions. I just need to be more assertive about asking people to take their detailed discussions off-line!
Either that or bring glazed doughnuts to counter the various pairs of glazed eyes around the table...
Imagine the pain of a faculty meeting with 20 PIs!!
ReplyDeleteHeh, I'm trying not to :)
ReplyDeleteBut maybe there's less chance of mentions of new findings at faculty meetings. That tends to be what sets them off!
I think you should schedule two more sets of similar meetings, so that you can have triplicate data points in your graph.
ReplyDelete*runs like the wind
We have a weekly group meeting that four PIs attend. Sometimes I get the feeling that if one person weren't standing in front with a laser pointer, that we would never get the hell out of there.
ReplyDeleteRicardipus, well, I think we should make this a multi-site study! There's got to be a suitable grant competition out there we could apply for.
ReplyDeleteMXX, yeah, I've been to a few lab meetings like that too! The kind where the people who've booked the room after you start just walking in and glaring at you when you go 10 minutes over...
You should tag-team with someone else: one week they go first, and your meeting starts an hour later, the other week you go first. I'm sure you can work out a good excuse for this arrangement.
ReplyDeleteNow that is an excellent idea.
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