Tales of a Lab Manager

Lab/project manager by day at @NOCnews/@biogeosensing 👩🏻‍🔬 Baker by night. 👩🏻‍🍳 Try not to get the two mixed up. All views are my own. #labmanager #microbiology

[Tales of a Lab Manager @MicroscopeBaker]

Weekends are now spent trying to build a chicken palace in time for them to move out fully.

[Tales of a Lab Manager @MicroscopeBaker]

7 weeks ago we had 3 chicken eggs hatch to reveal (quite luckily) all hens. Turkey, Henrietta and Jemima. I’ll leave you to guess which one is named Turkey.

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[Tales of a Lab Manager @MicroscopeBaker]

I may be a day late but still important to highlight. I am lucky to have and have had inspirational women around me throughout my career in science right through from my high school bio teacher to the women I work with at @NOCnews today. 👩‍🔬

[National Oceanography Centre @NOCnews]

Today is #InternationalWomensDay! 👩‍🔬👩‍🔧

Check out our women in NOC page, where you can learn about diverse roles and career paths - from scientific research to engineering.

Find out more here 👉 https://t.co/Mk9mZqExWd

#IWD2024

[Tales of a Lab Manager @MicroscopeBaker]

I feel very privileged to have been part of the event at @NOCnews’ to celebrate joining the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (#LEAF). We have a great team together to push lab and workshop sustainability forward, and very exciting times ahead.

[Tales of a Lab Manager @MicroscopeBaker]

Covid stopped our @biogeosensing socials for a while, but we are getting back into our themed lunches. Today was a spicy one! 🌶️

[Tales of a Lab Manager @MicroscopeBaker]

Perfect weather for the flag raising ceremony. The cupcakes were great as well!
Our lab logo in the microbiology facility also had a bit of a makeover in honour of #PrideMonth2023.

[National Oceanography Centre @NOCnews]

Today we marked #Pride by celebrating across our sites in Southampton and Liverpool, including a flag raising ceremony! 🏳️‍🌈

#PrideMonth2023 #Pride2023

[Tales of a Lab Manager @MicroscopeBaker]

The lab cleaning playlist is now peppered with episodes of Bluey and Wiggles songs. Says something when you don’t even realise you are singing along to it… Good thing no one else was around the lab. 😅

[Tales of a Lab Manager @MicroscopeBaker]

Every health and safety day needs cake. 🍰

[Stephen Robinson (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 @RobinsonLab_QIB]

During weekly lab meetings the people in my group present in one slide the highlights/progress of the past week. This is the best slide we’ve ever had. We laughed so much and hugged because: science is hard, it’s okay to admit it, and we are all in it together 🙂#mentalhealth

[Tales of a Lab Manager @MicroscopeBaker]

Today is World Day for Safety & Health at Work. I’m proud to work with the great H&S team at @NOCnews who keep our staff safe.

#SafeDay2023 #SafeDay

[United Nations @UN]

A safe and healthy working environment is a fundamental right in every workplace.

More from @ilo on Friday’s World Day for Safety & Health at Work: https://t.co/AtHPSqloaZ #SafeDay

[Tales of a Lab Manager @MicroscopeBaker]

This may be my favourite piece of ‘lab equipment’, and my new best friend. 😁🧼

[Tales of a Lab Manager @MicroscopeBaker]

A satisfying and productive day in the office. 💪

[Tales of a Lab Manager @MicroscopeBaker]

I’ve swapped my days of meetings on H&S, inventory and project plans to asking, in a high pitched voice, ‘has someone had a big poo poo?’, several times a day.
I’m not sure I have the ability to have a normal conversation when I go back to work…

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

World begins unprecedented third attempt at 2020.

[Stephen Laughton 🇺🇦 @StevoLaughton]

On the left is the last photo I have of my mum alive in May 2020. Living alone with serious illness, she faced the pandemic with stoicism.
We went for a walk around her local park. When she suggested sitting 2m apart in her garden, I said: better not, it’s against the rules.

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Widespread chaos across UK as people arrive at work meetings armed with cheese, wine, 15 other people and a baby.

[Tales of a Lab Manager @MicroscopeBaker]

@microbidart Safe travels and in awe of travelling with two children right now. They have grown so much! We miss you in the UK already.

[Tales of a Lab Manager @MicroscopeBaker]

Try as I might, I can’t understand why people have an issue wearing a face mask in a shop/public transport/work/crowded area. Unless you have a medical reason, what is the issue?
If medical staff can do it all day, every day, you can wear one for the 30 mins you are in a shop.

[Tales of a Lab Manager @MicroscopeBaker]

Leaving the lab and office behind for a while and trying not to feel guilty.
Feels strange to be swapping emptying biohazard bins and dealing with 🦠 to soon be dealing with nappies and a 👶. I should have probably taken some biohazard waste bags with me, thinking about it. 😂

[Tales of a Lab Manager @MicroscopeBaker]

And one last mark for us to remember her with. 🙄😅

[Tales of a Lab Manager @MicroscopeBaker]

Today marks the last day of owning rats. Lucy lost her sister this week and we’ve made the difficult decision to rehome her so she’s not alone.
Such big personalities but such short lives. 😥
Making the most of morning cuddles in bed for the last time.