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I really appreciate this piece shedding light on toxic lab environments. This hit home coming from someone who was previously in a toxic lab (not my current lab). I do however, find it interesting that this piece is about how trainees should respond to toxicity. Instead, why are we not talking about how mentors, PIs, post-docs, and graduate students receive little to no training on managing people and running an effective lab? I also think vilifying and portraying PIs as a fire-breathing dragon does not promote a positive growth environment. We are all constantly learning and trying to better ourselves. Believe it or not PIs are people too and also make mistakes. Let us not put people on a pedestal of scrutiny and instead adapt how we train our future leaders. As a trainee, I would love more institutional driven leadership and mentoring training. I would love to hear other's thoughts on this too! How do we better engage and train current and future PIs and scientists?

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Interesting article and varied ideas about handling the question posed. It’s complicated, I’m sure, but a couple thoughts: 1. Own your mistakes when you make them. Hopefully the PI in this story would recognize that they should apologize for yelling. We all need to recognize when others are having a bad day and given that they hadn’t yelled before, it seems like a contributing factor. 2. Be able to initiate and navigate difficult conversations. Without addressing this, the conflict, trust erosion, self doubt, etc created by the yelling will build. None of that is healthy. Yes there is a power dynamic but hopefully the tech in this story managed to have a private conversation with the PI. 3. Definitely have a network of peers and other mentors to discuss this with! 4. Yes if it turns into a regular occurrence it needs to be evaluated: stay or go. This is definitely not the first thing to go to, but sometimes it’s the right answer. How would you advise the tech? (What if it were a grad student or postdoc or other roles?) #phd #postdoc #difficultconversations

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