Seizing Opportunities: this post describes the two main challenges I've faced spotting and acting on opportunities, and what I've done to try and improve. Can you guess the relevance of the moldy Petri dish? www.linkedin.com/pulse/seizin...

Sometimes uncertainty can feel overwhelming and become debilitating. One year ago I decided to start my own business. The decision came with a lot of uncertainty. Here are some reflections on dealing with uncertainty. www.linkedin.com/pulse/forwar...

Do your energy levels vary throughout the day? About a year ago I started organising my work based on patterns I observed in my energy levels. In this post I describe what emerged from that exercise. www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-i-...

Sometimes being a middle manager can feel lonely. Particularly when things are going badly and you are getting grief from above and below. Often it is not clear what is and isn’t appropriate to share with your team. What can you do in these situations? www.linkedin.com/pulse/lonely...

This week I finished a project that would have taken me 25 years to complete if I didn’t know how to code. 😩 Classifying images manually and entering data into a spreadsheet 🤩 Seeing 13M classifications completed in 15 hours www.linkedin.com/pulse/power-...

Last year I decided to start my own company. At the time it wasn’t completely clear to me what the company would do. But I reckoned that the only way to find out was to give it a go. Here's where I’m at now, and how the name and logo materialised. www.linkedin.com/pulse/going-...

A compute job expected to produce less than 0.5TB was on track to generate 8TB — and I only had a 2TB hard drive. How could I be generating 8TB from a subset of 2.3TB? www.linkedin.com/pulse/develo...

Change can be stressful, particularly if it is associated with uncertainty, and a lack of control. How can one deal with that? www.linkedin.com/pulse/things...

There are usually many ways to solve a problem, and they come with different types of pain. If the people in your team are the ones that will feel the pain, it makes sense that they should have a say in the matter. www.linkedin.com/pulse/dont-s...

When I was first put in charge of a team I incorrectly assumed — that people could read my mind — and knew where the boundaries were. This post describes my journey resolving that. www.linkedin.com/pulse/increa...

5 Generic Lessons Extracted From 20 Bioimage Analysis Projects www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-gene...

In theory asking for feedback is simple. However, in practice I’ve found that there are several hurdles to overcome. The linked post discusses some of these hurdles, and how to overcome them. www.linkedin.com/pulse/asking...

What is it that introduces friction and strain into collaborations? www.linkedin.com/pulse/3-sour...

Some researchers shout and complain until they get their way. Then on the other hand there are the researchers that never shout, and get support that goes above and beyond. How do they do it? Here are five things I’ve noticed successful researchers doing. www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-appr...

Have you ever suffered from the pain of constantly changing priorities? www.linkedin.com/pulse/miscon...

Open questions are questions that cannot be answered with simple yes or no. Open questions encourage reflection — this makes them powerful! www.linkedin.com/pulse/power-...

The first publication from my group is out! A first attempt at teasing out the possible effects global warming will have on agricultural pests. Much more work to come. Please read all about it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How I made reflection part of my routine www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-i-...

Celebrating More — strategies for dealing with Negative Bias www.linkedin.com/pulse/celebr...

Overcoming the limits of the human brain – lessons from software engineering www.linkedin.com/pulse/overco...

Check out my latest LinkedIn post: Unsolicited Advice www.linkedin.com/pulse/unsoli...

Check out my latest LinkedIn post: Making effective use of words www.linkedin.com/pulse/making...

6 leadership activities to promote learning: www.linkedin.com/pulse/6-lead...

Check out my latest LinkedIn post: How to create a culture of paranoia, cynicism and self-interest www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-cr...

The BBSRC's refreshed forward look www.ukri.org/news/bbsrc-l... (released yesterday) reads like it has been heavily inspired by the JIC's HP3 vision www.jic.ac.uk/about-us/hea... (launched 4 or 5 years ago)

Check out my latest LinkedIn article: 7 techniques I've used to get out of arguments www.linkedin.com/pulse/7-tech...

Check out my latest LinkedIn post: Three activities for building a high-performing team www.linkedin.com/pulse/three-...

Check out my latest post: Ensuring your team gets the credit it deserves www.linkedin.com/pulse/ensuri...

NEW POST Increasingly our industry favors deep specialists. But we've found our most effective colleagues have a broad-based skill that's based on spanning many specialties. Unmesh, Gitanjali, and I write about explicitly recognizing this as a first-class skill martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

The Board of Trustees of The CCDC is pleased to announce that Suzanna Ward has been appointed as Executive Director with effect from 1 July 2025. Suzanna has nearly two decades of CCDC experience, most recently as Head of Data and Community. 🔗 ccdc-info.com/45V2CHZ #ChemSky #CompChemSky

Check out my latest post: Pitfalls to avoid when presenting technical work to a general audience www.linkedin.com/pulse/pitfal...

Check out my latest article: The value of understanding management styles even if you do not want to manage people www.linkedin.com/pulse/value-...

Hi everyone! I’m a #NewPI just starting my lab and would love to hear your advice on lab management and building the lab culture. Any tips, lessons learned, or resources you’ve found helpful are very welcome! Feel free to reply, message me, or email me at rcastellsg(at)cnio.es thanks a lot!! 🤗