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by Fomite 4y ago
There are only two places I call it out in my CV: 1) A pandemic-related paper, where press coverage was a big deal, because it was meant to influence policy decisions on a very short time frame. 2) One paper where we are in the 99th percent
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by Fomite 4y ago
This is absolutely true. I could leave for industry tomorrow and likely double my salary. The money I've personally earned from grants is... $0. And I've been very successful in getting grants. I only got a job offer at one univer
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by Fomite 4y ago
"The attention a scientist’s work gains from the public now plays into its perceived value. Scientists list media exposure counts on résumés, and many PhD theses now include the number of times a candidate’s work has appeared in the po
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by Fomite 4y ago
A lot of physical jobs will happily ruin your body, and give you posture, back and knee problems at age 30.
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by Fomite 4y ago
This. We asked about non-Teams alternatives, and were told we'd be responsible for hosting and maintaining anything else we chose by our IT department, and that was the end of that conversation.
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by Fomite 4y ago
My usual conversion - 267 full modular budget NIH R01 equivalent grants, including 50% overhead.
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by Fomite 4y ago
I mean, there are at least two different companies (Enthought and Continuum) that were founded on making the major scientific python packages easier to install.
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by Fomite 4y ago
There are very well documented formulas for calculation sensitivity and specificity of a diagnostic with a certain degree of certainty around it. You would use one of those.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Some society-level journals that are used to help support their respective societies are likely going to struggle a bit. That doesn't mean this isn't worth doing (it is), but it's going to be a thing.
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by Fomite 4y ago
My lab's gotten hit by some hefty publication fees this year - it's painful for early career researchers, but in aggregate, this is a good thing.
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by Fomite 4y ago
There were a lot of agreements with journals, etc.
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by Fomite 4y ago
I live in a place where snow doesn't stay where it falls thanks to drifting.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Makes the lots much more difficult to plow in the winter though. Not relevant for large swathes of the world, but a problem in a lot of places.
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by Fomite 4y ago
The Seattle to Dubai flight is rough, but at least it's usually on a nice plane. The worst flight I've had in a long time was a British Airways flight to Nairobi. Not actually all that long a flight to Nairobi from London, but B
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by Fomite 4y ago
Most of whom have demonstrated, time and time again, that price is the primary factor by which they decide who to fly with.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Moving to a more rural area (though still a college town) has been eye opening. I've lived in my house for two years. Google Maps still doesn't know it exists (Apple Maps does, but that is a recent development). The number of busi
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by Fomite 4y ago
Yeah, in my field its: R >>>>>>> Python >> Julia > Everything Else This of course ignores that a bunch of the underlying code for both the R and Python things people use is written in other languages, because t
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by Fomite 4y ago
Field specific, to be sure, but I know literally zero scientists turning to Rust.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Most modern graduate programs, at least the ones I'm in, effectively do this. Your "dissertation" is an introductory chapter, several free standing publications that are at least in submission, and a closing chapter wrapping
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by Fomite 4y ago
This will vary wildly based on university and field.
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by Fomite 4y ago
I miss it rather a lot - though I do do a fair amount of actual work myself still. But I also take my responsibility to keep my lab - including both staff scientists and graduate students - funded rather seriously.
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by Fomite 4y ago
I did my PhD at UNC Chapel Hill. I was able to live without debt, pay for flights to see my (at the time) long distance girlfriend, and I got medical insurance when I needed it. The dental plan was indeed appallingly bad.
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by Fomite 4y ago
"Aren't PhD students working long hours already? I really dont see where is the supposed additional slack they are having." They are - but I rarely impose my preferences for when they work, don't check to see if they&#
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by Fomite 4y ago
I did, as did a number of my colleagues.
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by Fomite 4y ago
A number of them are also just flat out students in that they take non-trivial amounts of coursework. In my program at least, as well as the one I went through, they were still paid.
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by Fomite 4y ago
I pay my graduate students. But the expectations are different. "Well, what do you want to work on?" and tailoring a four or five year program to meet those needs is something I'm very unlikely to do for a staff scientist, bu
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by Fomite 4y ago
A PhD should be, at least in theory. Whether it is or not is a question - and "until dissertation" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Importantly, a staff scientist position will never be . If you cannot tie your project
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by Fomite 4y ago
"Problem is, “graduate students” are not students. They are workers." Graduate students are both . My students benefit heavily from me not necessarily treating them to the same standards as I would treat a full time research em
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by Fomite 4y ago
That essay is pretty much this epidemiologist's take too.
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This does indeed seem like the unfortunate confluence of being exposed to someone shedding the vaccine-strain and community transmission. Which is exceedingly rare in the U.S., but is entirely foreseeable in low vaccination rate enclaves, w

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