Since lockdown started again, we’ve given up the porch for lab meetings, resuming (reZooming?) doing everything online. With everyone being in a grid on the screen, I used to go round the lab members in sensible orders, like alphabetical by first or last name, but have gradually drifted (via height, shoe size and number of cousins) to “how weird was your Christmas out of 10?”. Today’s order? “How many Bernie memes have you seen today?”, from Michelle …. who was at one far extreme with around 1000, me and Prathipa being at the “say what now?” other end with zero! It’s been fun catching up since….

Silliness aside, congratulations to Aileen and Andrea for getting abstracts submitted to the UFAW summer meeting, to Andrea again for getting a job interview with the ever-impressive Animal Charity Evaluators, to Jess and coworkers for finishing the last quality checks in her giant meta-analysis, and to Michelle for finding a nice effect of differential housing in zebrafish: for females (at least; males are weird), enrichment makes them less anxious.