{"id":23693,"date":"2021-09-22T14:26:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T19:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23693"},"modified":"2021-09-22T14:26:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T19:26:03","slug":"reading-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23693","title":{"rendered":"Reading group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a reading group in our lab. The goal is to present research results by others elsewhere that can inform the work in our own team.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really appreciating the energy of this process. Rather than always looking inward, the reading group helps us to understand that everything we do is part of a larger world of like-minded folks.<\/p>\n<p>Holding a regular reading group makes it easier to see that research, at its core, is not a competition, but a grand cooperative venture. Every researcher everywhere is contributing to the larger goal.<\/p>\n<p>At core, this is a good way of teaching gratitude and generosity. And that&#8217;s a very good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a reading group in our lab. The goal is to present research results by others elsewhere that can inform the work in our own team. I&#8217;m really appreciating the energy of this process. Rather than always looking inward, the reading group helps us to understand that everything we do is part of a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23693\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading group&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23693"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23694,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23693\/revisions\/23694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}