When you judge the CV of an early career researcher, is there an ideal range of 1st author vs co-author publications? Which ratios are bad?
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Also not that it matters at all I'm not in neurosci in the way you imply. The main project I work on is actually basically ML and politics.
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Your Twitter bio says "comp cog neurosci".
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OK — if you're interested I can explain.
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Computational cognitive modelling, the bit "comp cog" implies, is a very broad area & adding neurosci at the end just means most of my work
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is involving some kind of neurosci data. But to say I'm a neuroscientist __without__ any qualifier would be misleading.
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I took a course on Comp Neurosci at UCL Gatsby Lab: v interesting! Stunning how readily observable features of real brain emerge eg opt cols
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Nice — glad you enjoyed! I'm very more cog than that kind of work though, although obviously still very cool stuff.
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I'd love to hear more. I'm an omnivore & interdisciplinarity suits me! I tend to splurge & expand a line of research not home in!
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Room for a lot of philosophies here. Glad you found an environment with a different one.
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Personally, I would avoid a lab with a PI that would write "pubs are the most important thing". I do not think they aren't important, mind.
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Trouble these days is unless you're v lucky you need the pubs if you're to keep going. Can lead to some unhealthy practices but helps focus?
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The thing is I wish I was previously in labs that helped me publish. So while I agree, I was never properly guided towards pubs. So perhaps
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unhealthy practises exist regardless and pressure to publish is not actually properly utilised to help students.
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Currently, I'm extremely lucky to be in a lab where we all get to publish if we do the work.
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I have spent years working my butt off for nothing in return. I value pubs. I just don't value them uber alles.
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That is to say, my position is way more nuanced than "pubs are the most important thing". I'm sure others is too just 140 chars = limiting.
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