Well hello! Welcome to Jo's science blog.

I will mostly make posts about the things I do from day to day as a scientist, especially the fun things. But to start with, here is my desk from last week:

From left to right:
-Window, looking out on the picturesque environs of the North Campus. If you follow the link and look at the Kroto Research Institute picture, my office is behind the tree and down in the basement. But the tree is gone now :(
-Bananas. Yum. Healthy.
-Computer where I have got some data open. This is a graph of the wavelengths of light emitted when you hit a sample with an electron beam, it is made of a lot of broad peaks from the different things in the sample like defects. I'm using the computer to find the positions of the peaks which tells me about the defects the sample had.
-Lunchbox. Should probably have thrown the crisp packet away before I took the photo but too dopey after lunch.
-Box of sweeties. Nuff said.
-Cup of tea, essential for science.
-Other computer where I am recording the peaks found by the other computer so I can analyse everything better. On top of this computer are a squillion nametags from different conferences, just in case I ever forget my name, I don't know why I keep those.
-Savlon
-Emergency teacups
-Hand cream

Just off the camera to the right is a big unholy mess of lab books, boxes of samples, "useful" bits of paper, etc. also vital to science.

So that is one of my scientist habitats. Next week, one of the other places I work, involving less food and more chemicals...