Ponder
September 28, 2012
It is possible that I am even more motivated to write that grant, finish up that paper or take an experimental run at a project when the competition is someone who is personally a jerk.
DrugMonkey
biomedical research, just another job…
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DrugMonkey 
September 28, 2012 at 6:30 am
Word.
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September 28, 2012 at 6:38 am
So does it mean that the one thing NIH could do to improve overall scientific productivity is to fund a bunch of jerks? 😉
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September 28, 2012 at 6:47 am
a: they probably already do.
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September 28, 2012 at 6:59 am
Apparently so a
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September 30, 2012 at 6:43 am
You compete with CPP?
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September 30, 2012 at 6:57 am
Hahah. No.
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September 30, 2012 at 6:58 am
When I say “jerk”, I mean like real sketchy stuff. Not just a random personal dislike.
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October 2, 2012 at 2:41 am
This is helpful. I’m trying to very slightly ‘displace’* (in research space) a PI whose work I reviewed for a great journal as a grad student. I found an interesting conceptual problem with his analysis, one that he later incorporated into his job talk for a tenured position. When I met him in person, he was unbelievably patronizing… and I would have eaten it up had I not realized that I was (in a small way) actually in this guy’s league. I worry what kind of impact he has on other trainees.
This PI doesn’t sound as skeevy as yours, but it will help me write today.
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October 2, 2012 at 2:42 am
*The point isn’t to do redundant work, of course, just carve a niche in the area.
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October 2, 2012 at 1:08 pm
Absofuckinglutely.
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