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When I did some undergrad research, the professor was very careful to specify that lab notebooks were essentially legal records of what you worked on and when.
by ranger207 5y ago
When I did some undergrad research, the professor was very careful to specify that lab notebooks were essentially legal records of what you worked on and when. It's interesting to see that actually in use
- jamestimmins 5y agoI've read similar things about lab notebooks at Bell Labs, which certainly makes sense given the value of the IP they were creating there (among other things, the first transistor was invented there).
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- Fomite 5y agoThis is hugely important. It comes up rarely, but when it does, it's essential. Like millions of dollars, people's careers essential. For things like this, or scientific misconduct cases.
- dekhn 5y agoSome ~20 years ago, my professor suggested we not only sign and date the notebook, but hash the contents and publish the hash to the new york times. I'm told this in some way resembles the blockchain.
- Traster 5y agoJust stick a cronjob in to mint an NFT of it nightly.
- cma 5y agoIt is less relevant now for patents after the move from first to invent to first to publish/file (happened after crispr).