• Question: What is the hardest part of your job

    Asked by anon-39928 on 10 Nov 2022.
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      Vincent Monchal answered on 10 Nov 2022:

      I would say that it is to communicate my results because science is still really compartimentalised and not facilitate the access to knowledge for new scientist. There is a lot of constrain to publish your result if you want them to have an impact.

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      Vanessa Rodrigues answered on 11 Nov 2022:

      There are many scientists working on the same topic in different labs around the world. When we find new information, we have to publish it to share it with the science community. It is usually a competition to do so.
      It so happens that some teams are faster than others, and we lose out on publishing the information under our name.

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      Cristina Cuesta Marti answered on 11 Nov 2022:

      The responsability that it requires, the need to solve every small issue that appears during your research, and organizing very well the multiple tasks.

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      Sean O'Halloran answered on 11 Nov 2022:

      Motivating yourself to work without someone else telling you. You can become very lazy if you don’t drive yourself to work hard each day and its easy to slip into a bad habit of not working hard.

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      Siobhán O'Flaherty answered on 12 Nov 2022:

      When an experiment just will not work after so many tries. It can be very deflating.

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      Ingmar Schoen answered on 14 Nov 2022: last edited 14 Nov 2022 11:53 am

      Time management. There are always more things to be done than I have time for, so I have to prioritise and comprimise.

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      Anna Desmond answered on 17 Nov 2022:

      It can be hard to balance your time between experiments and teaching students. It can also be hard to communicate your research/work to a big audience of scientists who know the area of science you are studying really well.

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      Ciara Buckley answered on 1 Dec 2022:

      Sometimes things just don’t work out. Research projects are based off of ideas that are then tested in a small way to see if it could possibly work. If theres any hint it could work- then it becomes a larger research project. However, theres no guarantee, and sometimes it doesnt work and you need to just walk away from it or change it up entirely.

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