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Paul Carini's avatar

Nice post! We tried this in the past. I also surveyed the group on opinions of lab meeting themes. Very mixed opinions! The issue we ran into with a game meeting is the perception that these meetings are optional. thus, we had low(er) participation. We see a similar thing with writing clubs and to a lesser degree journal clubs. The only things that consistently draw everyone are research updates or guest speakers. We’re not quite large enough for a whole semester of research updates. But we haven’t found a magic formula, probably because our needs are constantly changing.

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Nolan Monaghan's avatar

For a time, a collaboration I was a part of did monthly 'student, technician, and trainee' calls that had a large social component to it. We talked shop, discussing the minutia of field work, but also a lot about our interests and lives.

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