I got scooped by my own PI in grad school. Had an idea for a next step, was told it’s a bad idea and not a good extension of the literature… then found out someone else in the lab started what I had proposed per the PI’s guidance.
It do be like that
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FinalRemix@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Ouch. That would kill my motivation and trust
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh, it did, for sure. It was a relief to leave that program, honestly.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Also:
“Wow they’re hot, I’m gonna abuse my position and sextort them”
burak@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Also:
Older academic: “I don’t know why but I want to give you better boobs… I mean grades, but not to Jack although his arguments are better than you. Jesus fuck me already”
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
And then sometimes they are right and they have to work really hard to convince other people and they get famous and stuff. And then they think that their other ideas that are outside the mainstream are also genius because they had them, e.g. vitamin c against cancer or racism. But they don’t work really hard to prove them because they are famous now so why should they. They never find out that their terrible ideas are terrible and die hated by everyone.
Lembot_0001@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Student<continue to paint brick in yellow>: Sayense!
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
This perfectly describes my experience working with IT “professionals”.
burak@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Yeah “professionals” and “experts” and “thought leaders” are a fun bunch
janus2@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
This perfectly describes my experience working with
IT“professionals”.ftfy
kandoh@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I could never respect anyone who wore that hat.
janus2@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I would.
“A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he’s not afraid of anything.”
it’s one of those hats
burak@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
You’re just jelly of my hat
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is why people need to publish negative results: so future generations of PhDs don’t think their ideas that don’t work are “novel.”
slacktoid@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Yeah but then you get branded as the person that publishes negative results and that complicates things, and the politics around that. Its something only well established people in the field have the luxury of doing, unfortunately.
wewbull@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
The thing is negative results are often the most valuable. If a hypothesis is disproven, it’s gone. The search space is reduced and people don’t need to waste their time with it.
All those glory hunters are the problem.