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As a researcher I was very lucky to have great mentors and co-workers that were always happy to help me. They showed me new laboratory techniques and taught me I have to be very diligent with recording my scientific data.
Many scientific data analysis tasks, such as classification or pattern search cannot be solved easily and with high precision by computer algorithms.
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What is crowdfunding and why is it so popular for the last few years?
The amount of time scientists spend analyzing their data has been steeply increasing since the late 1990s/early 2000s.
I have been training at updating my research skills for almost a decade now.
Is there a difference between scientists and researchers? Is one an occupation and the other a mission or lifestyle? Does it really matter in the end?
Budgets for science and academic research are being cut all around the world and many people are thinking about alternative careers.
More and more papers are retracted each year. In a reproducibility study Bayer was able to repeat only 14 out of 67 drug target research experiments from landmark papers. Amgen set out to repeat 53 key discoveries in the field of cancer and succeeded in only 6.