According to Imke Schroeder, a research project manager at the University of California Center for Laboratory Safety, not wearing PPE such as lab coats can expose researchers to a range of hazards.

An informal survey of 1000 chemists and life scientists has shown that most dislike their lab coats – not enough pockets, no choice of colour, inconvenient open cuffs and, most of all, terrible fit.

Citizen scientists “want to not only consume the information about the environment they’re living in and the science going on around them, but they want to participate in it, because they care ...

Among the things he selected was my lab coat. “I bought that coat at a uniform store in Seattle, where doctors and nurses get their scrubs. It’s what I wore in the pilot, which we shot in 1992, and on ...

It means being wary of the unfamiliar. Science is increasingly—intentionally—being pushed out of the realm of what you trust and into the realm of the unfamiliar. Scientists must resist this push.