The coronavirus pandemic has led to travel restrictions, conference cancellations and university closures. How do labs function in various states of lockdown? What happens to model organisms and long running experiments? On the personal side, how can we counter the loss of lab camaraderie? And education – how can you run a course from home?
Here, we’ve collated a bunch of Twitter threads that deal with some of these issues, which hopefully will be relevant to many of you. If you have any questions for the community, or plans you would like to share, we’d love to hear from you – just comment below the post, or register here to write your own post.
This thread from Alex Shier’s lab on March 8 described how the lab would be working from now on.
Can we run labs on one person shifts?
https://twitter.com/JJ_Emerson/status/1237784345751867392
The Soragni lab is moving remotely as much as possible
How Stephen Floor’s lab are approaching working from home
Maren Friesen shared her coronovirus lab plans:
Suspending lab access in Harvard:
Giulia Biffi, a PI in Cambridge:
A plea to funding bodies to consider mitigating actions
Lots of ideas in this tweet and replies.
The Yaniv lab is Staying positive
The Gallego lab is using the lockdown as a chance to become better, computationally speaking
48 hours to shut down the Bardelli lab in Italy
And, please don’t do this, PIs!
A thread on zebrafish emergency preparedness
Seems like C. elegans researchers are a little less worried!
To fight social isolation, why not set up a virutal coffee break?
Or a virtual happy hour?
https://twitter.com/JShendure/status/1237640592147931136
Keep educating: a thread on how to use Zoom to lecture from home
A perspective on online learning from the Open University
Online courses could help fill your days
Cancelled conferences? Why not share your talk and poster online:
Indeed we are planning to help with this for the BSDB Spring meeting, which would have started on Sunday. More info here:
eBSDB/GenSoc 2020 plans
Virtual seminar series – more ideas in the replies
Help for conference organisers from OSF
Please let us know if you find any other useful links.
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