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Bryn Robinson's avatar

I don’t know where it gets ingrained that we have to keep all the people ever in our lives, but it does. So I really like that positioning, “complete” vs “failed”.

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Liz Haswell's avatar

It's a very useful framing, in lots of contexts!

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Duygu's avatar

Thank you for the Zimmerman book review! The attitude towards descriptive, observational work is something that bothers me so much. I noticed it is sometimes impossible to have an intellectual conversation and just celebrate a piece of work without having to elaborate on "but what's next after this descriptive work?" I am not personally excited about knowing the function of every gene in every single research organism (but without these "functional" studies you can't get funded). I'd much rather know more of the undescribed species out there.

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Liz Haswell's avatar

I know! I’m kind of embarrassed about how long it took me to recognize how much my field might be missing by focusing so hard on a single model organism.

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Liz Haswell's avatar

Love it! Post-career completion.

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