Re:The Gutting of America's Medical Research
by lentoutcry on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @12:26PM
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researchers don’t receive unlimited funding for life, even if they made it into a permanent position. they have to regularly apply for grants, and those applications are reviewed by experts and have to be grounded properly in previous work. it’s just that potential for profit is not a criterion for evaluation, as it is in the private sector
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Re:The Gutting of America's Medical Research
by throwawaymaths on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @12:28PM
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have you actually done work in science? 8/10 actively working scientists will disagree that the system works in the idealized way that you imagine and the 2/10 that don't disagree are the ones who have made it.
Re:The Gutting of America's Medical Research
by biophysboy on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @12:41PM
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I've worked and still work in science, and his description of grant proposals and research focus is correct.
Re:The Gutting of America's Medical Research
by throwawaymaths on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @12:59PM
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youre in the 2/10, or aspiring to be in it, "temporarily embarassed PI". be more cynical. a bit of professional advice, if you're still at the postdoc level. don't do what i did, which was to do good science. the best way to get a facilty position is to have a PI boss that will play politics for you.
Re:The Gutting of America's Medical Research
by biophysboy on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @01:52PM
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Why would I take professional advice from an anonymous HN poster? I don't work in academia.