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> their workflows aren't great Sounds like a startup idea.

• adampunk 6mo ago
  You'll want to sit down when I tell you the budget these folks have for workflow solutions. Ain't gonna take long but might be shocking if you've got big startup hopes. ;)
  • steve_adams_86 6mo ago
    For sure. These are often people who want better equipment to do their research, not software subscriptions that promise to force them to work in unfamiliar and uncompelling ways. You'd need a fantastic, game-changing idea to get meaningful traction. One example of these might be systems like S3 and distributed computing in AWS. Like, huge ideas that take massive initiatives to implement, but make science meaningfully easier. I can't think of many other modern technologies we use that the team doesn't mostly resent (like Slack or Google Drive). They're largely interested in just doing the science, the rest eats into funding (which is increasingly sparse these days).
  • Starman_Jones 6mo ago
    This was almost two decades ago, but I worked in a lab running particle detection experiments from an “internet-capable”computer that started life with “Windows 98 already installed- no upgrade needed.” Any “workflow solutions” talk started and ended with “Can we get undergrads to do it for class credit?”
• analog31 6mo ago
  Spend a few years working in the target environment. It will disabuse you of the idea that science research can be regularized with technology.
• devmor 6mo ago
  If you want to make no money, sure. The solutions these scientists need are bespoke and share little in common. They also have fixed grant funding. In 2009 I made $15/hr working with some PhDs and grad students in a couple different labs to automate their workflows - I was the highest paid person in the room most of the time.