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I have recently moved lab. Whilst I will continue to push updates to the EpiC web resource, I will not continue to use this blog for solely development related information.
I intend to also draw attention to interesting articles that I have come across and to a lesser degree give an indication of the work that I will be doing at UCD.
My hope is that people find it interesting and useful, but also for this to act as place for me to improve my communication skills.
So, the topic of the first post is on a couple of articles I read recently on the problems associated with being a young post-doc looking to make a name for oneself.
The first relates to the culture that has arisen particularly in the UK, with which I am most familiar, that measures scientific output in terms of publications and according to some is driving people out of science and into other careers.
I'm not sufficently along in my career to comment on this from a personal perspective however, I do hear this compliant often from other post-docs, the occasional young PI and rarer still from senior academics.
It makes for a fairly depressing read: <a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000197">PLoS Biology</a>.
The second article focuses on choosing appropriate problems for scientists. I think the paper makes some good points.
Its the sort of article that people read and say that they do all the time. I think the reality is that people like to believe they do this sort of thing but don't in practice.
He has a html version here for those without a sub to Molecular cell <a href="http://www.weizmann.ac.il/mcb/UriAlon/nurturing/How_to_choose_a_good_sc.html">How to choose a good scientific problem</a>.
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