Check out “Frameshift,” a Q&A series in which neuroscientists with nontraditional careers discuss their work and how they made the transition away from the lab. In the first entry of the series, Shari Wiseman shares how she went from the bench to science publishing.
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Quite the real-life example of Lawrence's description of what happens to many scientists in the lab, dropping out to more stable careers around scientific research rather than in it, which are more stable:
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000197
Glad the transition worked for Wiseman. Here is to wishing for the energy and cunning to push the Nature publishing group towards the much needed publish, review, curate (PRC) model of #ScientificPublishing .
And a pity that the piece comes across as a pitch for sustaining traditional journals, who profit from the free labour of academics. "Reviewing papers is an important experience." – it really can be, but not when someone else is making a huge profit at your expense.
