"Polls have shown that principal investigator biologists now spend up to 40 percent of their time—it’s a shocking number, 40 percent of their time—writing grants." www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harv...

Testing the Bsky waters: Why are descriptive studies done at single lab scale often downgraded for lack of mechanism while descriptive studies done at consortium N-order-omic scale lauded as landmarks? All science starts with description, so shouldn't value be based on something other than scale?

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