It's shocking but imagine you are a PhD student, you need 4 papers out in 4 years but you are operating in a field where your results are only accepted when they are positive and new (sometime even only when the confirm a certain theory!). It feels really unfair as it is essential a probabilistic process whether you will get a PhD or not, it depends only to a certain degree o how had you work and how smart you are. This needs to change.
There are moments when you feel like giving up, for example when you receive a DNA construct that has been proven to work in some Science paper. You set up your experiment and for 1.5 years you wonder why it does not work for you. And you can only conclude that the Science paper didn't in fact produce a working construct, you start to see in the images of said paper that indeed, they may be coincidental and not the result of a working protein. And it sets you back 1.5 years. Or, you write around it, creatively as you explore the borders of your own ethics.
> It's shocking but imagine you are a PhD student, you need 4 papers out in 4 years but you are operating in a field where our results are only accepted when they are positive and new.
Get the fuck out of this field. Those stupid things keep on being only because some people are willing to be abused. When a lot less people enroll for those programs maybe some change will happen. Or maybe those students could start rioting.
So you would be the brave one, the one that will tell his professor: F U, I wont stay for 3 more years on this slave wage, you're going to have to make me a PhD based on my hard work that amounted to a set of results that you deem unpublishable.
There are moments when you feel like giving up, for example when you receive a DNA construct that has been proven to work in some Science paper. You set up your experiment and for 1.5 years you wonder why it does not work for you. And you can only conclude that the Science paper didn't in fact produce a working construct, you start to see in the images of said paper that indeed, they may be coincidental and not the result of a working protein. And it sets you back 1.5 years. Or, you write around it, creatively as you explore the borders of your own ethics.