Allen Institute recently featured me and my research. When I re-read my replies to most answers, I realized that a lot of my nearly 3 years of fellowship were spent on ‘glue work’ - work that will not feature on my CV, or even help me look flashy in job applications, but somebody had to do it. Maybe I was not so subtle in pointing it out that the toughest part of an independent postdoctoral fellowship, or heck, academia, is willingly taking on the glue work so that research can go on.