Several years ago, I helped a family friend, who’s an excellent cook, prepare a Bûche de Noël. One of the small but powerful pieces of advice she gave me that evening was “we don’t need to be tedious.”
There’s definitely the equivalent of “bread recipes” in scientific research. The lab I’m joining this fall is doing spinal cord injury research, and the PI is setting me up on what he calls “turn-the-crank research.” It uses a preclinical test they’ve done many times before, using a small but meaningful improvement in the intervention. It doesn’t require too much creativity or expert knowledge, just a lot of diligence and reasonable planning skills.
Several years ago, I helped a family friend, who’s an excellent cook, prepare a Bûche de Noël. One of the small but powerful pieces of advice she gave me that evening was “we don’t need to be tedious.”
There’s definitely the equivalent of “bread recipes” in scientific research. The lab I’m joining this fall is doing spinal cord injury research, and the PI is setting me up on what he calls “turn-the-crank research.” It uses a preclinical test they’ve done many times before, using a small but meaningful improvement in the intervention. It doesn’t require too much creativity or expert knowledge, just a lot of diligence and reasonable planning skills.