He recommends checking the PI's publication history to make sure they can turn ideas into papers.
But more often than is ideal, woolly research finds its way into papers that undermines the value of all research and researchers.
I've been able to dip around into papers, get what I want, not necessarily the whole paper, and immediately find what I need.
When you are a scientist you actually do a lot of writing – all your experiments have to be written up into papers and books – but there is one problem: you have to stick to the truth.
He has tweeted a CV of his setbacks, including lists of degree programmes he did not get into; papers that were rejected by journals; and academic positions, research funding and fellowships he did not get.
The stories that emerge are distilled into papers that mount in overflowing stacks of files on clerks' desks, like scripts for thousands of real-life movies of an electric intensity, of which Wiseman's tragically absorbing nearly three-hour documentary is just a sample.
