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Digital secrets of successful lab management

Group leaders say these tools keep their research groups running smoothly.
  1. Kendall Powell

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Christie Bahlai felt as if she was buried under a pile of virtual sticky notes. Like many group leaders, the computational ecologist appreciates that her team uses the messaging app Slack for virtual ‘water-cooler talk’. But she finds the app lacking when it comes to managing the various projects her laboratory is working on — threads, ideas and long-term goals get lost as conversations and memes rush on.

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Nature 595, 138-139 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01752-y

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  • Update 08 July 2021: Shortly after this story was published, Bookkit was rebranded to have the same name as its parent company, Clustermarket. This has now been reflected in the text.

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