Happy New Year! 🎉 If your 2025 resolution is to finally get your lab life together (read: #NewPIs), you’re not alone. A few people have requested I share how we use automation to survive:
1️⃣ Recruitment & Scheduling 👩🔬
2️⃣ Finance & Ordering 💸
3️⃣ Alerts & Emergencies 🚨
So here goes!—A 🧵... 1/n...
1️⃣ Recruitment & Scheduling 👩🔬
2️⃣ Finance & Ordering 💸
3️⃣ Alerts & Emergencies 🚨
So here goes!—A 🧵... 1/n...
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E.g. What about automatically scanning new literature and sending reminders if it relates to currently running lab projects.
However, we use Zapier to integrate google drive, Quartzy, slack, and emails— it manages the chaos so we can focus more on science. 2/n...
OKAY. let's start with 1️⃣ people. People. are. everything. 3/n...
We use Quartzy for orders/inventory. Every time someone requests an item, quartzy webhook sends the info to Slack—tagging the requester and whoever’s responsible for placing the order. ✅ Same goes for when an order is received. 📦 7/n...
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