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"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."

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Jan 25, 2022
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  • Be strategic about your research. Be tactical about your funding. Not vice-versa.

  • If a topic is a funding agency priority you are already too late. You need to be setting the priorities.

  • Technical skill and knowledge are vastly less important than good taste in finding problems to work on.

  • Nobody will steal your research ideas ... you will have to shout in order for others to even pay attention.

  • If the writing is confused it is probably because you do not know what you are talking about.

  • The bad reviews are your fault. You failed to get your idea across, or at best submitted to the wrong place and should have known better.

  • If the methodology section of the paper exceeds 20% of the available space, your paper is probably not interesting.

  • If you are not truly worried, and doubt whether your approach will survive experimental validation, you are not doing science. And, by the way, unless you have tested it, I guarantee your approach does not scale.

  • The older you are the more risks you should take in selecting your research problem. You are only as good as your last paper. Your h-index means nothing to me.

  • Give your research idea space, and accord others the same respect.

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Rob Solly
Jan 25, 2022Liked by prof serious

Great advice - I'm going to stick this on my research team's virtual wall!

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Rachel Harrison
Jan 25, 2022Liked by prof serious

so good to hear I should be worried... :-)

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