OH MY GOODNESS! You're here! You're really here!
How cool is that?! ✨ 🎈 🍰
This is your jumping off point to get you up and running with your work in (or collaboration with) the Whitaker Lab.
(It's currently a work in progress...I really hope you can shape and improve this onboarding experience as you learn!)
You're a person! (So am I!) We're social creatures (to varying degrees.) The traditional first day practice of giving new lab members a pile of papers and say "go read these and understand them" is rather isolating. It's difficult to read scientific papers in a field you don't know, and possibly isn't the best use of your first few days and weeks.
In this repository we're going to work through some tutorials, blogging exercises, reproducing some figures from papers and....so much more 😉.
- Read the Whitaker Lab code of conduct. Chat with Kirstie if you have any questions about lab norms or would like to add or change anything in the code of conduct.
- Join the Alan Turing slack channel by asking Charlotte to send you an invite.
- Set up the weekly meetings file by following the guidelines in the Setting-up-your-weekly-meetings.md file.
One of the most useful ways for me (Kirstie) to follow along with your progress is to read blog post summaries of what you've been working on. It's also a great way to share our work with others!
- Meet 3 people at the Turing Institute
- Blog about some code
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- Goal setting
The only mandatory reading for this onboarding is Matt Might's Illustrated Guide to a PhD. It's a beautiful description of the frustration and wonder of conducting reasearch. Don't forget, whenever things are hard, keep pushing.
