Giving Thanks
 

When meetings are on, people float in and out of this bar. I remember during a lecture at Grace,
one of the scientists mentioned me in his acknowledgements. He said "Thanks to Tom for making a great gin and tonic".

When they have the in house symposiums at CSHL the PI’s have 20 minutes to tell everybody what their research is and everyone of them in their acknowledgements will say “thanks to Tim Mulligan.” Even though it’s a little blip, it’s out there and they know the small part that I do. When one of my researches will be published, on the very last page of their manuscript, there will be one little sentence “thanks to Tim Mulligan for help with plant care.” That to me is like a million dollars, they acknowledge my part in the making of the final product.