Mike Eisen - Wear Open on your Sleeve
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Advice“I admire your zeal. But if you do not publish in Science, Nature and Cell you will never get a tenure track job, you
will never get tenure and your trainees will fail”-N.C.
“Why do you care? There are only ten people in the world I care about reading my papers and they all get Cell”
-R.T.
“You have to choose between making the world a better place, and having a career in science”
-J.R.
Lesson 1Don’t count on institutions or “leaders” to fix things for you.
Do it yourself.
Others will eventually come around but only after you show them the way.
Lesson 2
Don’t ask for anyone’s permission. You will never get it.
Science has a lot of institutions, but it is a collective that moves forward when people, not institutions, take the lead.