Yep. The lab fell apart a few years later (albeit with some help from other power struggles happening within the university at the time). UK universities are/we

Yep. The lab fell apart a few years later (albeit with some help from other power struggles happening within the university at the time). UK universities are/were(?) chock full of European talent all speaking the lingua academia (English). Easy to integrate and write papers at the same time. Huge cultural and academic win. That same experience in Germany? It's there, sure, but the effort to integrate is doubled.