For the record...

[quesarah]

I hate journal club.

Comments

[king-ghidorah.livejournal.com]

The first rule of journal club is do not talk about journal club.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

LOL. It might be more fun if we could swing at each other physically instead of just verbally sparring. ;)

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

What is journal club?

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

It's a science thing wherein members of a research group regularly meet to discuss current journal articles. Typically one person presents an article and the group discusses it.

I find it annoying.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Sounds spectacularly pointless.

Management idea?

[king-ghidorah.livejournal.com]

I suspect that in theory it should be a good thing, but in practice... not so much.

[virginmartyr1.livejournal.com]

did you shave sometime in the middle of the day?? morning avatar you had facial hair, afternoon avatar you had none...and also had much shorter head hair. hmmm. ;)

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Technically, yes. It's a practice that has its dubious origins in the academic world. I consider it to primarily be a method by which faculty can force their grad students to read papers, and have a handy forum in which to attack those peers who disagree with their pet theories.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

You are correct. It is particularly not so much when it directly follows a 2+ hour lab meeting first thing on Monday morning.