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Can you expand on "Much academic work is something of a moonshot these days, and your job is to also carve out some useful incremental advances."? My own asses
by thingification 9y ago
Can you expand on "Much academic work is something of a moonshot these days, and your job is to also carve out some useful incremental advances."?
My own assessment is that there is too much low-risk low-reward work in medicine (and its intersection with biology), and I want to hear/read about how I'm wrong.
- comstock 9y agoYou need to make grand claims, state grand objectives to get funding. The easiest route to publication is then incremental advances. Ideally with a story around them that makes them sound like part of a grand plan.