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Outside the lab
What we do when we leave the building.
A laboratory is a group of people before it is a research programme. Once a season we close the lab books and go and do something else together — on the river, on the track, around a barbecue, or somewhere with neon lighting.
Carnival in the lab
February 2026Pointy hats, a projector full of parades, and a printer that has never been photographed so often.
Stand-up paddling on the Main
August 2025A morning on the river with the skyline for scenery. Boards, paddles, and a long way back upstream — and, remarkably, nobody in the water.
Goethe-Lauf
September 2025The university run — the department at the start line in matching shirts, and an award ceremony afterwards that nobody had entirely planned for.
Dragon boat
September 2025Twenty paddles, one drum, and a sunset over the Main. Synchronisation turns out to be harder than it looks — and a great deal more fun.
Summer barbecue
May 2025The grill, a long table and an evening in which nobody talked about their p-values. Much.
Bowling night
March 2025Statistically significant differences in technique. No significant differences in score.
Lasertag
January 2025The one team activity where being fast at the bench does not help at all.
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