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Re:Many junior scientists need to take a hard look at their ... by chrisBob on Thursday October 26, 2017 @12:44PM (#15560570)
This is related to the cost of doing experiments and running a lab. My wife is a bio-physicist and goes through $1k is supplies on a good day. In contrast you could run a math lab on almost nothing.
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Re:Many junior scientists need to take a hard look at their ... by tincholio on Thursday October 26, 2017 @02:40PM (#15561737)
There's this old joke about math departments being the second cheapest to run, since you only need pen, paper, and a trash can. The cheapest department to run is Philosophy, since you only need pen and paper.
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Re:Many junior scientists need to take a hard look at their ... by BeetleB on Thursday October 26, 2017 @03:59PM (#15562454)
>This is related to the cost of doing experiments and running a lab.

Only tangentially. In my engineering department, the expectations on the professor who ran a lab with heavy and expensive equipment were no greater than the one whose work was all computational and just needed a bunch of PC's to run simulations on.

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Re:Many junior scientists need to take a hard look at their ... by xyzzyz on Thursday October 26, 2017 @02:42PM (#15561760)
The biggest cost of running math department is travel costs, but then again, biophysicist probably spend just as much on that.
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