Advice
“I admire your zeal. But if you do not publish in Science,
Nature and Cell you will never get a tenure track job, you
will never get tenure and your trainees will fail”
-N.C.
“Why do you care? There are only ten people in the world I
care about reading my papers and they all get Cell”
-R.T.
“You have to choose between making the world a better
place, and having a career in science”
-J.R.
Lesson 1
Don’t count on institutions or
“leaders” to fix things for you.
Do it yourself.
Others will eventually come
around but only after you show
them the way.
Lesson 2
Don’t ask for anyone’s
permission. You will never get
it.
Science has a lot of
institutions, but it is a
collective that moves forward
when people, not institutions,
take the lead.
Lesson 3
Be persistent, even obnoxious.
If you’re not annoying people,
you’re not doing it right.