• Question: what has been the scariest experience in the lab that you have ever had?

    Asked by izzy to Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 18 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Jillian Scudder

      Jillian Scudder answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      My lab is basically a computer with code on it, and I think the scariest thing I had was when I found a major bug in my code, and I wasn’t sure how badly it affected other people’s work. It turned out that it was less bad than I had feared, but that was a moment of terror.

    • Photo: Lidunka Vocadlo

      Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      @izzy well I work on computers, so probably that big spider in the corner….

    • Photo: Steven Thomson

      Steven Thomson answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      Similarly to Jillian, I don’t have a proper lab and most of my work is done with maths.

      I did once think I’d found an error in a paper I’d just submitted for publication and I was terrified I’d ruined my career and no one would take me seriously any more. It turned out that the paper was correct, and I was just mistaken in thinking there was an error – I’ve never been so happy to be wrong about something!

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