The laboratory meeting - group meeting, lab seminar, journal club, or progress review - is where research directions are shaped, results are debated, and tasks are allocated. These discussions contain the most valuable tacit knowledge in a research group: methodological decisions, interpretive choices, and the reasoning behind experimental design. Rarely are they documented.
Capturing scientific decisions
With Listen, lab meetings are recorded. The AI summary extracts: scientific questions addressed, hypotheses adopted, experiments planned, and tasks assigned to team members. This creates a group research log - accessible to supervisors, useful for writing funding reports, and invaluable when a new postdoc joins the group. For thesis defences that mark milestones in the lab's work, see our article on thesis defences and viva voce examinations.
Use the meeting summary as the basis for the monthly progress report sent to your funding body - NSF, UKRI, ERC or otherwise. The advances and decisions are precisely documented and require minimal additional drafting.
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