Guest guest Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 Yes I did but what am I going to say? I can't really tell whether you're serious or not as you periodically write me about your future plans but I don't really know what to say. I really can't do more than tell you if I were embarking on a career in biology AND interested in spirochetes I'd go to Lynn Margulis. I've told you before she's a genius. She should've gotten a lasker or nobel for figuring out mitochondria. > > Hi, did you get my email like 4 days ago? I remember one of your > addresses was getting spammed over... > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 I just wanted to ask if you know anything special about the one researcher you mentioned before. I was merely venting frustration, not requesting advice, when I wrote you about how one generally cannot do work unrelated to ones doctoral mentors work. Theres no simple answer to that one. Trust me, I'm not asking you to do my work for me... I'm spending many hours looking at lab webpages and at peoples grant summaries on NIH's CRISP database. Youd think that if you had the concepts in place for a potentially important experiment, you could get it done as a doctoral student - but in fact most researchers are very specialized, and very conscious of the bottom line, as there is a surplus of students and great competition for NIH support. In order to maintain their funding, most labs have to focus closely on the particular work NIH has funded them for. And precious few US labs are funded to investigate the possibilities we have discussed here on this group. Highly educated, highly acute people like Ewald and Wheldon can sound off with all intelligence and scholarship about these ideas until the cows come home, but their effect on what experiments get done is limited unless and until research professors decide to risk their careers on whether they can convince NIH, etc, that this stuff deserves large investments despite being the opposite of the theories everyone learned in school. > > > > Hi, did you get my email like 4 days ago? I remember one of your > > addresses was getting spammed over... > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 But I really don't know all about that--never been a grad student in the sciences. > > > > > > Hi, did you get my email like 4 days ago? I remember one of your > > > addresses was getting spammed over... > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 On Sunday, October 30, 2005, at 01:34 PM, wrote: > I was merely venting frustration, not requesting advice, when I wrote > you about how one generally cannot do work unrelated to ones doctoral > mentors work. I didn't realize that. It's certainly not the case in the arts. But in the arts, you don't generally need a lab! > Highly educated, highly acute people like Ewald and > Wheldon can sound off with all intelligence and scholarship about > these ideas until the cows come home, but their effect on what > experiments get done is limited unless and until research professors > decide to risk their careers on whether they can convince NIH, etc, > that this stuff deserves large investments despite being the opposite > of the theories everyone learned in school. It's becoming more obvious to me why the medical scene is a lumbering beast with enormous inertia. - Kate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 Sorry to butt in (I don't feel well enough to participate) but I can testify that what happens in medicine also happens in other fields, especially he bit about only being allowed to choose a usually very narrow research topic (collecting data) that would then "feed" the papers, books etc that your professor would sign. At least this is what happened in the field of linguistics. And you had to toe the "party line" as well, whatever trend was in fashion in your university at the time. Nelly Re: [infections] Re: Jill - email On Sunday, October 30, 2005, at 01:34 PM, wrote: I was merely venting frustration, not requesting advice, when I wroteyou about how one generally cannot do work unrelated to ones doctoralmentors work.I didn't realize that. It's certainly not the case in the arts. But in the arts, you don't generally need a lab! Highly educated, highly acute people like Ewald and Wheldon can sound off with all intelligence and scholarship aboutthese ideas until the cows come home, but their effect on whatexperiments get done is limited unless and until research professorsdecide to risk their careers on whether they can convince NIH, etc,that this stuff deserves large investments despite being the oppositeof the theories everyone learned in school.It's becoming more obvious to me why the medical scene is a lumbering beast with enormous inertia.- Kate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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