Lab notebooks are one of the less glamorous parts of being a scientist. You must meticulously record what you do each day so that some day in the future, someone could read it and replicate that day’s work. Or when you realize you discovered something you would like to patent, you must prove that you indeed thought of it on a particular day.
Confession: I am particularly terrible at maintaining my lab notebook. Continue reading “Always leave a paper trail”
The Finch and Pea 