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The Pocket Card Monthly QR Exclusive - September 2024
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September Discount: Grab a Pocket card for your favorite classmate or colleague
Has a classmate or colleague ever commented on your Pocket card? What would they do if you surprised them with a “just-because” gift to help them in their work?
For the month of September, grab any STEM pocket tool for only $10 - limit 3 per person. Use the code POCKET4MYFRIENDS at checkout.
September Resource: Have you hosted a Lab Olympics?
To celebrate the Olympics and do some team-building to kick off the academic year, labs around the world are hosting their own versions of a “Lab Olympics”. The basic concept is to create events out of mundane tasks common in your field of research, either timed or for accuracy. Just make sure to keep it safe and avoid being wasteful of supplies. To get you started, I’ve collected my favorite ideas from Reddit below:
- Pipette Tip Basketball: Participants must accurately eject pipette tips into progressively smaller containers, testing both skill and precision.
- Dry Weighing Accuracy: Without a scale, contestants must estimate 1 gram of a commonly used powder, scored for accuracy
- PPE Relay: Teams put on and take off full Personal Protective Equipment as quickly as possible, in a relay format
- Unscrewing Falcon Tubes: A timed trial to unscrew 20 Falcon tubes one-handed
- Parafilm Stretching: Contestants stretch a pre-measured section of Parafilm, judged on length or surface area without breaking
- Pipette Tip Box Reloading: Timed event for refilling a pipette tip box
Here are 3 Reddit threads with more ideas and commentary! Thread 1 - Thread 2 - Thread 3
Just for fun: Science Cartoon
Behind-the-scenes of every Project 2025 meeting.
Science cartoons by Tom Gauld.
September behind-the-scenes news:
Lab coat inventory dwindling
Our lab coats take a long time to make. Longer than most. Our custom fabric takes 2 months alone, the construction takes another 2 months and then we have to find a boat to get it here. So although we started a new run in April, it won’t be here until the end of October (at best). Several sizes are out of stock already and the best we can do is wait and prepare. Thanks again for your support!
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May 2024 - Prompting in Google Docs
April 2024 - Google Drive hacks
March 2024 - Mastering Lab Meetings
February 2024 - Mastering Schlenk Lines
January 2024 - Time-saving Excel shortcuts you didn't know
December 2023 - Virtual coworking with scientists
November 2023 - Data plots for colorblind scientists
October 2023 - Crowdfunding your experiments and The Lab Coat Project finale
September 2023 - How to quickly find info on chemicals and molecules
August 2023 - An intro to quarterly planning for research
July 2023 - Using AI to search research papers
June 2023 - The easy button on literature reviews
May 2023 - Negotiating vacation and Pocket Paleontologist launch
April 2023 - Job interviews and lab coat updates!
March 2023 - Lab coats affect your mental health?
February 2023 - STEM books that won't put you to sleep
January 2023 - AI Chat and SciArt
December 2022 - SciComm video editing tools
October 2022 - Career skills workshops
September 2022 - Conservation in the laboratory
August 2022 - Join a study to help scientists
July 2022 - Lab Coat Materials Ultimate Guide
June 2022 - Neuroscience Podcasts and Lab Coat Update
May 2022 - Science Learning Centers near you
April 2022 - The Pocket Physicist Launch and Best Math Blogs
February 2022 - Fantastic Physics Blogs
January 2022 - Pleasure reading for engineers
December 2021 - Easy lab process diagrams
November 2021 - Free STEM icons for your presentations
October 2021 - WebPlotDigitzer and Lab Coats
September 2021 - Engineering Podcasts
August 2021 - STEM Holiday Calendar
June 2021 - Productivity resources
May 2021 - SciComm on Social Media
April 2021 - Sustainability in the lab
March 2021 - Gifts for Engineers
February 2021- Focus on reading papers
January 2021 - Focus on interviewing
December 2020 - Inspirational reading for graduate students
November 2020 - Graduate application resources
October 2020 - Voting for Science
September 2020 - New Lab Art Photography
August 2020 - The Pocket Chemist Exam Edition launch!
July 2020 - Word Magnet Launch!
June 2020 - Constant giveaways and learning to code
May 2020 - Time to get writing?
April 2020 - Quarantine life and a new retro sticker!
March 2020 - Focus on Best Chemistry Blogs
February 2020 - Focus on Digital tools for chemistry
January 2020 - Focus on Outreach
December 2019 - Focus on Social Media Accounts for Scientists
November 2019 - Focus on Helpful Reading for Grad Students
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