Kraaaaaak.

A large cut develops in my hiking pants while I step on that slightly bigger rock in Switzerland.

The whole breadth of my left buttock.

With people walking right behind me.

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That’s how I feel about asking people for money: embarrassed. I like to avoid it at all costs, even though I believe in the work that our team is doing.*

Motivated by an arts projects that I’d like us to start, I set up a donation page a few months back. And then did a lousy job of promoting it. That is, I mentioned it once at the bottom of a blogpost (a spontaneously developing ‘bottom’ theme here 😉 ).**

However, despite the embarrassment, at least one good thing came from it. I started a series of micro-podcasts (2 minutes long) about what the Lab and I had been up to. It turns out I enjoy these little “Last week in the Lab” reflections, and I hope they give an insight in our work. I’ve put the list below.

Next time, I’ll write about an entirely different embarrassment story – nothing to do with money nor bottoms. One that is motivating me to change something substantial in the lab.

Last week in the Lab:

• Part 8   on working & learning in Jordan
• Part 7    on the World Science Forum
• Part 6    on the UN Sustainable Development Goals
• Part 5    on that other embarrassment story
• Part 4    on translation of research into practice
• Part 3    on a rollercoaster week
• Part 2    on the Ear for Recovery study
• Part 1    on the study on Domestic Homicides

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* With funding agencies, I don’t seem to have that problem 🙂

** I’ve on purpose not linked to the page here, because doing it would feel like I’m using this post to promote it, which you know now, makes me feel embarrassed…