Intellectual maturity is caring more about solutions & progress than about flag-plantinghttps://twitter.com/RickCarlsson/status/1229883227348885507 …
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Every paper that "scoops" "your" idea is a paper that does work you won't have to do -- so you can focus on the next step :)
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Most young scientists love science and want to keep doing it, and every paper increases the odds that you will be allowed to keep doing it. When valuable work in the early years is scooped, it markedly reduces those chances.
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Easy to think this way after having your career secured. Getting scooped as a graduate student can easily break everything. Some papers are a representation of 3+ years worth of work. Try to convince a graduate student that time lost was a good thing in the end..
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try 6 years of lost work.
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been doing that since the 1990s, always been focusing on the next steps and the next...
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