I also know plenty of people whose work is top-notch, but it's not in high impact journals because their senior, tenured PI doesn't believe it matters where you publish, or more accurately, they know it doesn't matter where they publish and they don't care where you publish.
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We can't all be professional profilers, after all. Some experiments can only be done one way, because the technology just isn't there (yet). So to me, to work so hard to get to the truth, and then be judged based on only a tiny sliver of what I really know and can do, is just plain insulting.
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Gradstudent:"Do it your way, but pretend I did it using his." It was a male professor who told me that I shouldn't discourage these poor girls, but I found out later that his behavior toward me is more discouraging toward the women around here than anything I've said about my frustrations.
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I packed up my lunchAnd charged up my phoneAnd then I left themBoth at home.
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Read Time wasting monster quiz. (Links)
I really do love feeling like I'm getting things done. Did not do everything I wanted to do today and will not finish it all tonight, but I am getting better at not stressing about leaving some things for the weekend, they can sit in the cold room and they should be okay.
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Read Yay, productivity. (Links)
So today I sucked it up when I found myself doing something that gave me graduate school deja vu in the worst way, that took what seemed like forever and made me feel like I've made no progress whatsoever in all these years, and I will never, ever get out of here.
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Read Mood swings. (Links)
This morning in the shower I had all kinds of ideas for things to blog about, but now I can't remember what they were. I don't care about abandoning my computer or all the hard work I've done here. All I really need is someone who actually cares about my results to say, "But you can't quit now!
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Read Another shitty day, and I still want to quit. (Links)
The ones who hate sucky jobs and say so, because they actually want to have a life, not just a career. But that is 5-10 years down the line, and most academic scientists don't retire at 64 if they can help it, so it's probably longer before it would help someone like me get the kind of job I want.
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Read Hope for the future? (Links)
This will tell you how they handle problem-solving and give them a real taste of what grad school will be like. The most successful researchers I know are big picture people who take care of the forest and hire little picture people to take care of the trees.
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