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I’m feeling the immense pain and frustration of researchers right now. I lost my research funding in 2011. It was the end of my research, my team, the career I’d spent almost 20 yrs building. Sacrifices made, hurdles navigated. I was low, it was hard. I hurt. Others hurt for me.
But it wasn’t the worse I’d faced, so I persisted. I wrote letters to Ministers, was founding Chair @EMCRForum, negotiated with my Director. There was no bridging funds, no part-time options, no safety net. But they would keep a few precious mice alive and keep my reagents/bench.
So without salary I did what I could for the next 6 months. I resubmitted grants, obtained new data, and ‘worked’ up until rebuttal. I was in a privileged position with a working partner, so I could. After rebuttal, I built my network & skills for another professional STEM career
