Lab Meetings

Your go-to spot for all lab meeting-related info, documents, links, and resources!

Lab Meeting Zoom Link: The lab meeting Zoom link remains the same from semester to semester. Lab meetings take place on Fridays from 1:30-4:00PM (CT/UTC-6) during the fall & spring semesters. 

Emily's Teams Calendar: To schedule a Microsoft Teams or Zoom meeting with Emily, view their Teams calendar and find the day & time that works best for both of your schedules! Not seeing any days or times that work for you? Try emailing Em to see if setting up a meeting outside of their provided calendar hours is feasible. 

The "Task List": Each week that the lab meets, folks are encouraged to share their needs, resources, and opportunities with the lab by adding them to the "Task List." The file's name can be a bit misleading. It doesn't actually function as a list of tasks for labbies to complete but rather as a space for folks to ask for help, offer help, or share whatever resources or opportunities they have to offer. For more information, check out The "Task List" webpage

Project List FA25: Each semester, the lab creates a "Project List" document where labbies can share the various different projects they are working on, whether it be a manuscript, workshop planning, research study, etc. Adding your project here isn't required — but it's definitely welcomed if you'd like the lab to ask for updates throughout the semester. Project leads are also asked to share their contact information for labbies who may be interested in asking questions, getting involved, or supporting the project in some other way! 

FlexPrax, Applied, & Conceptual Chat Sign-Up Sheet: Throughout the semester, labbies are invited to bring a topic of their interest to lab meetings. This is the sign-up sheet for reserving a lab meet chat for your topic. 

The Louisiana Contextual Science Research Group (LCSRG; "the lab") meets virtually via Zoom on Fridays from 1:30PM-4:00PM (CST/UTC-6) during the spring & fall semesters. The lab has adopted a sort of "open-door" policy to provide flexibility around lab meeting attendance for all labbies. Here's an idea of what that looks like:

First, lab meetings are not mandatory.

As a lab, we encourage each and every human (including and expecially labbies!) to check-in with themselves to see if they have the bandwidth to attend lab. If not, go take that nap that you've been thinking about, or get that thing done that you've been putting off, or go spend time with someone you care about, or go on that trip, or go to that doctor's appointment, or make some coffee and curl up with a good book. Take care of yourself. No one is keeping a tally of how many lab meetings you make it to. That being said, I personally feel that the lab meetings contain a lot of the "good stuff" of lab, such as inside jokes and hilarious conversation, lab culture in practice, advocacy and networking, personal disclosure and interest-sharing, and tons of "nerding out"!

Second, you can attend lab meetings in whatever capacity you choose! 

Being on Zoom makes that really convenient. You can keep your camera on, or off, or switch back and forth. While everyone is certainly invited to share something at some point in the meeting, you can choose to speak through your mic, respond in the chat, or you can choose to not share at all. Essentially, you can choose how much you want to be involved in the meeting. For some folks, this is the reason they're able to attend lab meetings. For example, we've had labbies who attend lab while at a coffee shop or working at a job and choose to keep their camera and mic off during the entire meeting but will send a message in the chat when they find something interesting or have something to say.

Third, labbies can participant in whichever part(s) of lab meetings they wish. 

Each lab meeting is broken up into 3-4ish chunks: Labbie Check-In, Project Check-In, FlexPrax, and Applied/Clinical chat and/or Conceptual chat. (You can find more info, resources, and relevant links to each of these chunks below!). Some folks can't hop on the Zoom meeting until an hour after it's started, others don't find the FlexPrax helpful, and others will choose to exit the meeting before the lab dives into the Applied/Clinical or Conceptual chat topic of the day (e.g., maybe a certain topic is particularly hard for them, or maybe it doesn't interest or apply to them). Labbies are welcome to hop on and off the meeting as much as they'd like!