February 17, 2011
trust
I was recently listening to a podcast about two scientists who have been friends over the years. Even in my short time in the academic world, I see how rare that can be. If you can't work and trust someone in the workplace, how do you expect a friendship to arise from that relationship?
Coming from an IT and business background, I see that barriers to good relationships in science are pride especially over knowledge and sometimes, competitiveness. Here's to hoping that I have great relationships in the science world that I have in my other arenas.
On a connected topic, I'm currently reading short essays in Science commemorating 10th anniversary of Human Genome project.
This essay, Famine in the Presence of the Genomic Data Feast, reminded me of a thought I recently had at a seminar. The last generation of researchers emphasize functional studies while a new generation of research analysts see the wonder in the patterns that we find in analysis. We need researchers who want to be observational scientists rather than experimental scientists. Otherwise, our understanding of the data will bottleneck.
Posted by azileretsis at February 17, 2011 02:37 PM
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