• Question: If you could create one item or skill for yourself for your job, what would it be (can't be stop time or go faster or stop sleeping! Sorry.)

    Asked by bones to Jamie, Jodie, Kat, Mark, Niamh on 22 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Katherine Davies

      Katherine Davies answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      Hi

      It would have to be a pupae piercer. When preserving pupae, I have to pierce them with a pin three times, before putting them in boiling water. This is very time consuming and fiddly, to get the holes spaced out correctly along the pupa, especially when I cant touch them to avoid contamination with DNA.

      Piercing 100’s at a time, with a device that could hold them, pierce with one press and transfer them to water would be fab!

    • Photo: Jamie Pringle

      Jamie Pringle answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      Hello bones,

      Both of your suggestions sound great! Some sort of clever x-ray machine to look for buried material in the ground would be great and save a lot of time and effort I would say 🙂

    • Photo: Niamh Nic Daeid

      Niamh Nic Daeid answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      HI Bones

      Hmmm hard one to answer … type faster (and certainly spell better)

    • Photo: Mark Hill

      Mark Hill answered on 22 Mar 2011:

      Hello Bones,

      I think it would be a far better analytical and scientific mind, stronger in maths and physics.

      This sounds boring, but would be a ‘skill’ that I would greatly benefit from.

      Thanks,

      Mark.

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