The Lab Book is always being updated and changing, and lives in a shared collaborative format so that lab members can make comments and update material. The Lab Book here is a snapshot of the book on September 3, 2021, version 3.
Lab Book Table of contents
- i. Hello, Reader!
Part One: Orientations
- How to lab book
- CLEAR Values
- Humility
- Accountability
- Collectivity (semi-permeable membrane)
- An anticolonial lab
- CLEAR Rules
- CLEAR Guidelines
- A glossary of terms and their politics
- Empowerment vs. participation in existing power structures
- Outreach vs. always already being part of communities (or not)
- Raising Awareness vs. infrastructure and power
- Indigenous sciences vs. decolonial science vs. anticolonial sciences
- Western Science(s) vs. Dominant Science
- Settlers
- Newfoundland vs. Newfoundland and Labrador
- Fragile vs resilient vs…?
- Field sites/work versus homelands
- “Ladies” vs. job titles
- “Crazy” vs. intense/overwhelming/jarring
Part Two: Protocols
- Onboarding for guest members
- Onboarding new full lab members
- Orientation
- Lab and Safety Onboarding tasks
- Lab meetings
- Logging hours
- MUCEP, ISWEP & GradSWEPs
- Processing samples
- Lab Training for processing samples
- Exiting the Lab
- Starting CLEAR
- How CLEAR started
- The people (hiring)
- The name
- The space
- The structure
- Introductions (please read before writing your bio for the lab website)
- How we run a feminist lab meeting
- Guidelines for safer collective conversations at CLEAR
- Facilitation
- Consensus-Based Decision Making
- Lab Love Notes & Thank you cards
- Calling in
- Apologies
- Equity in Author Order Protocol
- How we Choose Lab Values
- The Most Feminist Science Article in the World would include:
- Using our Google Spreadsheets
- Personal Vehicles for University Business
- Quality Assurance/Quality Control, or, Contamination protocols
- Tap Water Protocol
- Percent Recovery Protocol (Proficiency Testing)
- Waldo Plastics (Quality Assurance)
- Blanks and pinches (Contamination controls)
Appendices
Appendix 1: List of prioritized values from the consensus process (2021)
Appendix 2: A wee primer on colonialism