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Money and talent certainly help, but the grad student/postdoc model also locks people into a certain kind of project where most of the work is done by 1-3 peopl
by mattkrause 9y ago
Money and talent certainly help, but the grad student/postdoc model also locks people into a certain kind of project where most of the work is done by 1-3 people over 1-3 years, with some extra bits done here and there by collaborators. This gets you a lot of underpowered experiments, bad analysis code, and tons of reduplicated effort as people scramble to finish up, publish, and move on.
- chrisamiller 9y agoIndeed. The lack of continuity is killer, not just for the people working in that lab, but for science as a whole. That model is how we get shitty unsupported bioinformatics packages, experiments that no one can replicate, etc.
- etrautmann 9y agoexactly this. This succinctly sums up exactly the problem I see as a PhD in biosciences aside from the Allen institute or other alternative models.