{"id":215,"date":"2009-02-06T19:46:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T19:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/02\/06\/on_going_away\/"},"modified":"2009-02-06T19:46:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T19:46:37","slug":"on_going_away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/02\/06\/on_going_away\/","title":{"rendered":"On going away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/UE652E32F\/profile\">Kate<\/a> runs the lab in which I&#8217;m a senior post-doc. Over the last three years she&#8217;s managed to work herself into a role where, basically, she runs the place. Me, I just tinker with things of which man was not meant to wot, and drink coffee from Azzuri&#8217;s (double shot espresso, one sugar). Oh, and I run the post-doc support group, although seeing the Royal is being refurbished I&#8217;m going to have to be a bit more creative about it.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnyway, when I told the boss I&#8217;d be leaving at the end of February, there was a mad panic as he realized he&#8217;d have to replace Kate. Good post-docs are <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/etchevers\/blog\/2009\/02\/06\/where-do-we-go-from-here\">two<\/a> a <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/UE19877E8\/blog\/2008\/09\/11\/in-which-the-mythical-scientist-shortage-comes-under-scrutiny;\">penny<\/a> but lab managers who can keep things ticking over smoothly (and in the process save thousands of  a year\u2014remind me to blog that some time) are highly sought after.<\/p>\n<p>\nSo yesterday, when we presented him with a copy of this weeks <em>Nature<\/em>, he read it, giggled, laughed, and kept giggling for a while after that.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rg-d.com\/nature\/5.2.jpg\" alt=\"When the Grants go away\" width=\"400\" height=\"529\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nI think it was easier than crying.  (And thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/maxine\">Maxine<\/a> for the PDF. It&#8217;s going to be a poster at our leaving do.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate runs the lab in which I&#8217;m a senior post-doc. Over the last three years she&#8217;s managed to work herself into a role where, basically, she runs the place. Me, I just tinker with things of which man was not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/02\/06\/on_going_away\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}