I think it takes a masochistic personality to be in this field, especially if you’re primarily soft-money. Perhaps we like the abuse. Seeing “not discussed” is an especially exquisite type of pain…
Some of my colleagues tell me you can’t let it get to you, but I can’t help but take every rejection personally. It leads to an almost constant state of depression over my chosen profession, broken up by the occasional discovery. And yet I can’t see myself doing anything else…
that reminded me – the guy from Queen has a PhD in astrophysics. Brian May. It’s an impressive thing to have two separate careers and excel in both of them.
Hearing that Brian May had been studying for a PhD in astrophysics before Queen really took off certainly helped explain the song ’39. I can just imagine the session where he demoed it
BRIAN: See, there’s a time dilation effect as you approach the speed of light…
It’s all the reviewers fault, says McKnight: “My wish is that more reviewers of grant applications would, as Koshland did, put more value in unique ideas and approaches than trendiness and predictability.”
If the riff-raff on the study section could just see past the niggling fact of flat paylines and a larger cadre of scientists than 30 years ago, they would fund real science and not the crap they are choosing now. Bunny Koshland knew how to pick real scientists, not like the losers who are beginning their careers now.
Man, this “back in my day”/”get the hell off my lawn” crap is getting kind of stale…
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November 3, 2015 at 6:18 pm
I think it takes a masochistic personality to be in this field, especially if you’re primarily soft-money. Perhaps we like the abuse. Seeing “not discussed” is an especially exquisite type of pain…
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November 3, 2015 at 7:40 pm
Some of my colleagues tell me you can’t let it get to you, but I can’t help but take every rejection personally. It leads to an almost constant state of depression over my chosen profession, broken up by the occasional discovery. And yet I can’t see myself doing anything else…
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November 3, 2015 at 8:30 pm
Ha. How appropriate. The lead singer in this video knows a thing or two about research…
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0058586
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November 3, 2015 at 10:23 pm
that reminded me – the guy from Queen has a PhD in astrophysics. Brian May. It’s an impressive thing to have two separate careers and excel in both of them.
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November 3, 2015 at 10:55 pm
Tell that to Dr. Heiden or Dr. Thomas
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November 4, 2015 at 10:41 am
Indeed, eeke, that’s true. Here’s another example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Soldier
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November 4, 2015 at 12:49 pm
Hearing that Brian May had been studying for a PhD in astrophysics before Queen really took off certainly helped explain the song ’39. I can just imagine the session where he demoed it
BRIAN: See, there’s a time dilation effect as you approach the speed of light…
FREDDIE, ROGER, JOHN:
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November 4, 2015 at 1:54 pm
It’s all the reviewers fault, says McKnight: “My wish is that more reviewers of grant applications would, as Koshland did, put more value in unique ideas and approaches than trendiness and predictability.”
If the riff-raff on the study section could just see past the niggling fact of flat paylines and a larger cadre of scientists than 30 years ago, they would fund real science and not the crap they are choosing now. Bunny Koshland knew how to pick real scientists, not like the losers who are beginning their careers now.
Man, this “back in my day”/”get the hell off my lawn” crap is getting kind of stale…
http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201511/PresidentsMessage/
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November 4, 2015 at 11:14 pm
Grumble:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
badass.
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