Comment on A hot time in the old lab tonight! [Too Much Coffee Man]
JayDee@lemmy.ml 2 months agoIt’s just an absurd premise.
Researchers are specialists in their fields and have carved out an academic niche. They study a single thing for years at a time before publishing a paper, and the process of studying anything is brutally methodical and likely quite often boring until you maybe discover something. It’s then boring again as you write your paper on your work, regardless of whether it discovered something or not.
All of a sudden, your co-researcher just turns to you and goes “Fuck it. Let’s research something else tonight. Something fun as a treat”.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 months ago
I don’t know any scientists that aren’t very passionate of their own research though. That’s making this even more absurd and nonsensical…