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So now you have your own lab. Yes. And now you get to choose what sort of kind of culture you want
to build in your lab, right? Like what kind of tradition you're gonna, you know, start. That's
kind of exciting, you know? You can decide on this random rules and traditions and just make it a
thing that you do. Yeah. Well, I'm kind of a lazy PI, I guess. And no one is lazy if you're a PI.
I don't know a single PI who's lazy. Okay, I know some, but those are like grandpas. So I think
they're allowed to be lazy. Right. So now, as you mentioned, I have a new lab. I have some postdocs
and students. But we don't actually have like kind of a culture that I can clearly articulate.
You guys are still in the making. Yeah. Like we don't have like lunch meeting thing or like
TED talk session or anything like that. The TED talk stuff, I think is, I don't know if people
like that. I don't know if people would enjoy it, but it's something that is relatively easy for you
to do. Yeah. Just making excuses. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure you have a few talks that you want to share
and just be like, hey, like, you know, let's make it a thing like once a month, like have lunch
together and watch this thing and discuss or something. Yeah. Yeah, probably. So do you have
Team Slack? Oh, I do have a Slack. What do you mean, Team Slack? Like the app Slack? Yeah. Yeah,
we do. We do. We do. Yeah. Do you guys talk about like things other than like
Gyomu Renroku? It's only Gyomu Renroku and research related stuff. But like, do you guys share like,
oh, look, this like cool paper just came out? Oh, yeah, we do. Yeah.
How do people respond to that? Does that develop into discussions sometimes? Or like, is it just
like, hobo suru? Oh, sometimes. But, you know, our lab is really small and my office is kind of
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um, included in the in the labs, like a corner of the lab space. So it's easier to just walk
to them and then talk. Oh, hey, this is a paper I found. So yes, but we do have these discussions
occasionally. Yeah, but for like, in terms of lab culture, I don't think we have that kind of clear
or thing at the moment. The easiest thing is to involve food, right? Preferably,
that's either on your own pocket money, or, you know, budget of the department or something,
where, you know, you can just treat your people like once every semester or once every year or
something like at some kind of shimen no timing de, you know, like, like, I think this is where
you can utilize Japanese culture of bonen kai and shinnen kai and stuff like that, you know.
You can, like, that's something that's seasonal that you can do, for sure. Yeah, we did a bonen kai,
yeah. Oh, yeah? Yeah, yeah. People, yeah, seem to like, like it a lot, so. Yeah, I don't know,
and in our lab, we don't really have it. But usually, in summer, we go to our boss's house,
because he has a very nice house in front of the lake. And so we go there for barbecue,
and just hanging out, talking. We have done hiking together. Oh.
Yeah, yeah. We've done hiking, we've done kind of science gasshuku mitai na. So we have a lot
of international collaborators. And there were, there was one summer where they were all able to
sort of coordinate their travel plans. And so our collaborators from Oxford and New Zealand were all
able to come to America all at once. So my boss hosted a sort of like, what do we call it? I
forgot. It was not a boot camp, but it felt like a boot camp, because it was really intense. So
we stayed at his ski house, because he has a ski house. And we stayed at his place, and it's in
the middle of mountains. You know, you wake up in the morning and start, like breakfast, you start
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talking about, we have sort of like a presentations and, you know, scientific discussions for the
morning. You eat lunch. While eating lunch, you continue to talk about science, right? Because
that's what we do. And afternoon is another couple of talks. And then we go to, like, hiking to sort
of refresh our mind. But of course, like, you know, the only thing we have in common is science. So we
keep talking about science. And then we come back for dinner. And some people would sort of start
focusing on dinner prepping, but other people would continue to talk about science. And then,
like, it went on for, like, maybe 3 or 4 days. Towards the end, I'm like,
dude, can we talk about, like, cute cats or something? Like, anything, anything other than
science. I know, I know we're all interested. I know we're invested. But we really don't have to
talk about wave packet collapsing, like, at specific moments anymore. Like, I think we talked
enough about it. So not going to recommend a science boot camp. But if there is a mean, I think, like,
hiking or like, like, I think it would be fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I don't know, I feel
like hiking is one of those relatively easy things that you can do with many people. And
many people enjoy it. They just, like, may not have a car, or they don't, they're not bothered
to go to, you know, places on their own. But if it's kind of together group activity, they might.
Yeah, yeah. Maybe I should get a ski house or something. Yeah, yeah. So number one,
step one, get a ski house. Obviously, yes. Easy. And then practice skiing. That's the second step.
Yeah, yeah. That's the second step that you would, you would obviously would get that right away.
Step three, invite people over. Easy, easy. Easy peasy. Yeah, let me know. Like, I'll come along,
you know, for a special guest to your science boot camp. I've never been to Niseko, but I heard
good things about them. Yeah, I'll update you about this three, three step. Yeah,
yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I'll update you about this three, three step. Yeah. Great. Great. Great. Wonderful. I
did not ski. I don't know how to ski. Me too. But yeah, I'll practice and I'll teach you.
Okay. Cool, cool, cool. Cool, cool, cool. I mean, you don't have to know how to ski in order to own
a ski house. So yeah. But those are different things. Yeah. Well, after owning, you know,
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ski house, but we have to utilize it, right? Invite people and utilize it, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We have to do. That's not a requisite. It's not a prerequisite.
Okay. To already know how to ski in order to get one. Just, just get, get, get a ski house.
Okay. So, okay. So step two can, can be skipped? Like learning how to. It can happen at three or
four, step five, maybe later. Maybe later. That's important. Yeah. Just get the ski house.
What else? Oh, so my, my boss doesn't really have a lot of like tradition either, but one thing he
does is when he always brings champagne for a defense and he keeps the bottle of the student.
So for in his office, there's all these champagne bottles of previous students with their name on
it. Yeah. So that's like one thing he does. That's nice. Yeah. That's, I think that's nice. So when,
when you have your first students graduating, you can, you can think about doing that. I don't know
if that's a fun thing to do. I know some people buy gifts for their graduate student. Like I,
my friend got gifted a laser pointer with her name on it. You know, something useful like that.
And just, you know, memorable, I guess. And what else? No, no. I think ski house is the best idea
so far. Yeah. Seems easy enough. So yeah. Yeah. Low hanging fruit for sure. Okay. Yeah.
All right. Let me know. I'll keep you posted. Yeah, I will too.
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