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By doing research, we are spending other people's money.
Would you still do your research projects if you would only got paid the lab/consumables/etc and had to find a parttime job to pay your bills?
Remember that Einstein did that ...
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Would you still do your research projects if you would only got paid the lab/consumables/etc and had to find a parttime job to pay your bills?
Remember that Einstein did that ...
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... he worked in a patent office during his golden years.
Would I do it? For my work on
- polygenic risk: probably not
- new citation-based literature search method: was developed in the evening hours (peerj.com/preprints/2764…)
- my writings about methods: yes, much like now
Would I do it? For my work on
- polygenic risk: probably not
- new citation-based literature search method: was developed in the evening hours (peerj.com/preprints/2764…)
- my writings about methods: yes, much like now
For the record: I receive no funding anymore for my polygenic risk research. We're wrapping up the last project and then I call it quits ... unless/until I see a truly promising new avenue/opportunity that is not yet on the horizon.
