by admin | Aug 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Responsible Service of Coffee It is 7:33 pm at the RSL. The place is packed. A ramshackle band is playing in the background, disjointed yet somehow beautiful. I have found a quiet corner after a full day’s work and would like a coffee. This proves unexpectedly...
by Michelle Fitzmaurice | Aug 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
How much institutional energy is spent making dysfunction sound polite? There is a strange ritual performed inside institutions. Before naming a problem, we must soften it. We begin by acknowledging how busy everyone is. We recognise the complexity of the environment....
by Michelle Fitzmaurice | Aug 16, 2026 | Microbiome, Uncategorized
We put food in. A remarkably complicated biological system happens in the middle. And poo comes out. Yet when we study stool, we often treat it primarily as a convenient container for something else. We extract microbial DNA. We sequence it. We measure metabolites. We...
by admin | Jul 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Everyone Is Solving the Same Problem Today, I watched several people trying to solve different parts of the same research problem become frustrated with one another because they disagreed about the “right” way to do it. The strange thing was that nobody was...
