i think we give "careers" too much weight and it limits us.

[ellyxir@humanwords.party]

i think we give "careers" too much weight and it limits us. we can do and get paid for what we want. music, coding, marketing, product management, making games, medical research.
i've tinkered in all of those things. never got a degree in a single one. ofc this doesn't work for highly regulated practices like doctors and lawyers (lowkey "lawyer" looks so weird as a word, doesnt it??) but biological research? why not #hottake #career

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

@ellyxir curiously, Richard Feynman has a whole chapter in his autobiography (e.g. a book about being Dick) on doing bioresearch as a physicist. He's done poor biological research due to hubris of "but I am a legit scientist, how different can it be". And arguably poorly played music or sloppied code probably can hurt fewer people than poorly made biological research, so I'd be cautious...

[ellyxir@humanwords.party]

@nina_kali_nina i think people in general feel like he contributed to biological research (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.03854) There's a ton of poor research, even AI led research these days. Plagiarised and falsified results. That hurts. Human subject based studies are sensitive, but they require ethics review board approval, and with that approval, I believe its perfectly fine to be a involved, I've done that. I wasn't the lead investigator, but I helped.