Programs with such a subquadratic runtime are necessary: many projects currently desire trees on hundreds of thousands of taxa, and new projects such as metagenomics or sequencing individual cells inside a human may require creating trees from millions of sequences.
Keep in mind that you will get renewed growth at the node where you cut, so you may want to cut the plant back further than you currently desire, in anticipation of it filling in in the future.
Changes in training contents should increasingly emphasise grant applications (currently 2.75, desired future 4.48, resulting in a gap of +1.73).
Funding agencies should become more active in network building (currently 2.48, desired status 3.29, gap +0.80, closely followed by faculties of medicine and universities).
With regard to recruitment, emphasis should most typically be placed at the start of the residency (currently 2.98, desired status 4.14, resulting in a difference of +1.16).
With regard to education methods, laboratory training should become more important (currently 2.70, desired future status 3.82, resulting in a gap of +1.13 after rounding).
Funding should increasingly be sought by organ-based radiology sections (such as abdominal imaging) (currently 2.88, desired status 3.91, gap of +1.04), closely followed by scientific societies (+1.02).
Success of the training programme should more often be measured by an outcome survey of professionals (currently 2.80, desired future 3.65, gap of +0.85).
Research group leaders should take over more responsibility for career planning (currently 3.14, desired future 4.13, resulting in a gap of +0.98).
