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Coronavirus diaries: making plans in a changing world

John Tregoning grapples with a shifting schedule and a new UK lockdown.
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  1. John Tregoning

    1. John Tregoning is a reader in respiratory infections in the Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, UK. He runs a blog on academic life.

Planning: it’s what we scientists do. Every experiment needs to be thought through in advance. The depth of planning will vary from field to field. A small pilot study that I might do in my immunology laboratory, for example, requires less forethought than does a field trip involving the UK polar-research submersible Boaty McBoatface.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00106-y

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