This book is about conflicts in a research lab – as myself who has always been in a lab of less than four people at one time, this was a great read. The environment is familiar: confined lab spaces and jokes about repeatedly failed experiments, frustration and jealousy of post docs when one can not reproduce the results. The books captured in essence the relationship and feelings and roles of different people working in a research lab: the fast and furious PI, the greater good PI, post doc who can produce results, post doc who can not produce results, technicans who wished the institute to be burnt down, and the mice! The amazing results published in Nature seem to be published too fast to outcompete rivals, and the aftermath is daunting…
To sum up: be nice to your fellow post docs, and make sure you record every single step in your lab log book and lock it up with highest security!
