Lab Notes Feed
My bio practice is turning out to involve lots of longer-term projects, and while individual chunks/experiments can be interesting, I usually want to wait for things to accumulate before they get a full post/video. I thought youtube shorts might work as a venue for smaller in-progress updates but 1) video is still high friction and 2) they get shown to thousands of people, usually as a first impression. So, I made my own feed where I can post pics of my physical lab notebook along with other reference pics and notes: https://ln.johnowhitaker.com/. I’ll still try to keep things coming through to this blog, but hopefully this will avoid me polluting the everything feed here with too much everything :) What I might do is have a ‘lab notes digest’ that summarizes any interesting bits from there once every few months.
Why post all these? Adam Savage said “The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.” I’ve been taking notes, but I was chatting recently with Sebastian Coechiba and he encouraged me to make sure everything I capture is public, otherwise others can’t benefit from it. So, Seb, here you go - my public lab notebook :)
