As a physicist and martial artist, if you're ever talking about #3., I would absolutely love to hear!

Great, thank you!

Congratulations! Did you have to pay for the covid shot out of pocket? (I was told the Hopkins insurance isn't covering it yet. :\ )

Like how shameless do you have to be? Above all, the paper on which this is based was recently retracted, someone showed that it produces basically the same results as a coin flip. (3/3) 🤣🤣

retractionwatch.com/2023/08/24/p...

There have been studies that needed to be retracted because they did not pay these hefty licensing fees. And I mean ... look at these questions! They're basically "did you forget to take meds?". This stupidity, btw, was publicly funded and he's charging money for it! (2/3)

Should've definitely phrased my rant better. :D

What you said is sort of what I wanted to mean. I have heard "quit" used in the sense of "giving up" or "dropping out" but what you said definitely puts it in a much better phrasing, in my mind and anyone else who's reading it.

And of course I am talking about folks who would have ideally liked to stay in academia but couldn't because of the hassle of constant funding uncertainties and few permanent positions. Moving on to something else is always an equally valid choice.

I agree! And I didn't mean it that way. What I really meant is that we should diversify the types of permanent positions that are around and the system shouldn't require everyone to become a PI to have financial stability. Sorry that didn't come across, I didn't want to make the thread too long. :)

And let's be clear, PI's are usually not that person. Many well-known PI's I have met haven't looked at fine grained details of research or even written code by themselves in a very long time. They have great big picture ideas, but they cannot execute those ideas themselves. 🧪⚛️ (4/n)

n=4

Imagine having a student or postdoc starting to work on something. Now you could ask them to figure things out from scratch, which may take months. Or you could have a person in your group who knows this stuff inside out and can set things rolling in less than a week. 🧪⚛️(3/n)

At the same time I feel sad that we are losing these brilliant minds because they weren't working on the "right" topics or didn't apply for "right" grants. A human encyclopedia on a field of research is extremely valuable and we should do everything we can to keep them around. 🧪⚛️(2/n)

What are you using to animate this? Looks cool!

Yes 😂