It says "consider", not "you should"
I agree that for some it may be advantageous to have <surname> Lab. But it makes certain things harder. E.g. when @kellycaine invited me to co-direct her lab as an incoming faculty, I was happy that it wasn't called the "Caine Lab"
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I find the whole lab naming super weird... I avoided it for a long time, then students started calling us BIG Lab, which we backronymed into Big Interfaces Group, after our sister lab (future interfaces group)
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It goes on to state that it's feudalstic if you name your lab after yourself. So yeah, I needed to push back against that.
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It's not feudalism at all and personally if you name your lab in my field after what you study it's a mistake. What name do you think would fit for my lab? Our interests, Brad's in other words, dramatically change over time too. That's even worse if you're stuck with old name.
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Either way. I'm not saying don't name your lab after anything you want. But the OP was above and beyond strongly wordes against surname labs.
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Anyway, I'm glad your lab naming experience worked out and were welcomed into a great lab to co-run. I'm gonna guess that's quite a rare experience though.
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Side note: Can you imagine if I did it?
Styles Lab
sounds like a design studio or a badly named Chinese fashion house
or you...
Guest Lab
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I probably won't even run a lab... But you know Brad's lab is called Love Lab, right?Http://bradlove.org/lab
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I think no one calls labs by their real name. They’d all be “attention and memory”, “mind and pain”, “embodied cognition” lab so no one knows what they are talking about
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Exactly. Those names are pompous and arrogant 90% of the time too.
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I like our lab name and use it! We're the BabyBRAIN group: Baby Research on Action, Interaction and Neurocognition. If people ask who my supervisor is then I tell them her name. I don't agree that the surname way is harmful, but it is less useful if someone doesn't know your PI.
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I never made the claim that all such names are bad. But I do stand by all I've said here. Glad you like your lab name and that it works well too!
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More here in other side thread:https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/1025726551889985536?s=19 …
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At the same University? Because this is Love Lab UCL in EP. Also BTW exact same critism applies to "categorization lab" if not more so.
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It is pretty much always very clear what university and department(s) a lab is in.http://bradlove.org/lab
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Funny thing is this: all labs in our dept have names [e.g. mine is Social Neuroscience Lab], but the students all refer to them by investigator name [e.g. PuceLab]...
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I don't think these names (non-surname names) are bad. I just don't think there should be rules. Also the fact students call them by surnames is good for the students! Avoids confusion.

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I agree on all counts!
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I wonder what peple would think that the Guest Lab is all about!! :) :)
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Haha! True!
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