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14 votes
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Why don’t we know how antidepressants work yet?
30 votes -
Genomic prediction of IQ is modern snake oil
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How AI revolutionized protein science, but didn’t end it
16 votes -
Does anyone have experience working as an independent researcher?
Ive been working in engineering for a few years now. Ive gotten pretty good at my job, and Ive learned a lot. But it was never really my intention to work at a big corporation my whole life. When...
Ive been working in engineering for a few years now. Ive gotten pretty good at my job, and Ive learned a lot. But it was never really my intention to work at a big corporation my whole life.
When I was a kid, on TV there were all these scientists and researchers who just had money to do research somehow. They didnt go to an office or go to meetings, they just had funding somehow to go do science stuff. There was often a big lab built right into their home so they could just wake up and tinker around with stuff. That was the dream for me growing up.
I could always just keep working where I am now, but I cant really do the kind of research I want within the normal structured environment that big companies want me to work in. I want to work on a difficult problem that I would expect to take years of experimentation before I would even hope of making any big breakthroughs.
Im wondering if anyone here has ever done any kind of work as an independent researcher. Like, living off grant money or something like that. Ive been looking at SBIR/STTR grants as a possible first step, but that would only get me 3 years, and after that Id need to find a continued income source.
17 votes -
For many Olympic medalists, silver stings more than bronze
14 votes -
Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial of African women
29 votes -
Elephants call each other by name, study finds
35 votes -
Male birth control gel (that is applied to the shoulders) is safe and effective, new trial findings show
72 votes -
Internet addiction affects the behavior and development of adolescents
8 votes -
Why the pandemic probably started in a lab, in five key points (gifted link)
44 votes -
Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time
34 votes -
UNM researchers find microplastics in canine and human testicular tissue
23 votes -
How much research is being written by large language models?
14 votes -
Wiley to shutter nineteen more journals, some tainted by fraud
20 votes -
New candidate genes for human male infertility found by analyzing gorillas' unusual reproductive system
7 votes -
mRNA cancer vaccine reprograms immune system to tackle glioblastoma
12 votes -
What cats’ love of boxes and squares can tell us about their visual perception
30 votes -
The Homo Economicus as a prototype of a psychopath? A conceptual analysis and implications for business research and teaching.
6 votes -
‘Like a film in my mind’: hyperphantasia and the quest to understand vivid imaginations
18 votes -
Canadian science gets biggest boost to PhD and postdoc pay in twenty years
7 votes -
Loneliness can kill, and new research shows middle-aged Americans are particularly vulnerable
31 votes -
Scientists studied how cicadas pee. Their insights could shed light on fluid dynamics.
7 votes -
Argentina president Javier Milei’s actions after taking office have research institutions facing shutdown. Scientists protest.
18 votes -
Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion
10 votes -
Research sheds light on new strategy to treat infertility
5 votes -
Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet: An analysis of DOIs suggests that digital preservation is not keeping up with burgeoning scholarly knowledge
26 votes -
Progress deferred: Lessons from mRNA vaccine development
9 votes -
What's an obelisk, anyway?
25 votes -
Research samples collected over decades at Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet were destroyed when a freezer malfunctioned during the Christmas holidays
30 votes -
Researchers were able to isolate the brain from the rest of the body of a pig, and kept it alive and functioning for five hours
59 votes -
Why flying insects gather at artificial light
24 votes -
Science sleuths are using technology to find fakery and plagiarism in published research
16 votes -
The Hawthorne effect in human resource management is based on unreliable studies
17 votes -
Efficiency asymmetry: Scientists report fundamental asymmetry between heating and cooling
17 votes -
Magpies swoop bald men more often, eight-year-old's viral survey finds
34 votes -
Transparent wood is stronger than plastic and tougher than glass
28 votes -
New study - scent of tears from female humans reduces revenge seeking and aggression in males, similar to patterns observed in other mammals
31 votes -
Wasabi linked to ‘substantial’ memory boost
28 votes -
The achievement of gender parity in a large astrophysics research centre
7 votes -
Denmark is building on the success of blockbuster drugs – the country's focus on reinvestment is feeding a stream of discovery
7 votes -
Rats have an imagination, new research finds
57 votes -
Human microbiome myths and misconceptions
10 votes -
Recent neuroscience research suggests that popular strategies to control dopamine are based on an overly narrow view of how it functions
17 votes -
For the first time in the United States, research with cephalopods might require approval by an ethics committee
21 votes -
Plan for £100m UK underwater living research facility move forward
12 votes -
Beneath the Earth, ancient ocean floor likely surrounds the core
15 votes -
A University of British Columbia study gave fifty homeless people $7,500 each and debunks stereotypes about homeless people’s spending habits
34 votes -
Who is likely to believe in conspiracy theories?
35 votes -
What does any of this have to do with physics?
41 votes