We use our weekly group meetings to stay in touch with each other’s work. Every member of the lab summarises their week of work on Notion, a platform we use to organise our group. It also gives us an opportunity every week to ask questions, to get advice on an issue or just to flag up an interesting topic someone came across to every other member in the lab. Our hour-long weekly meeting then consists of going through these updates to ensure everyone is up to speed with everyone else’s work and to learn something new via a presentation or workshop put on by a member of the lab. We rotate around the group to give everyone a chance to present their work, invite a guest speaker, practice a talk for a conference, put on a coding workshop or just tell us about something they do in their spare time. Staying in touch with each other is also very important to us. We use Slack to communicate with other members of the team. This makes it easy to ask each other for help if we are stuck with our own research, to point out interesting papers and to share our achievements with each other. We also organise social events outside of the department. For example, we like to get together to enjoy a pint at a pub or share each other’s interests by finding like-minded people for running events.