PhD support group?

melancholly

Joe_Bloggs wrote:

Unfortunately the journals in question have a very restricted readerships. A wider readership could appreciate and make use of the information.
Wikipedia may be an outlet for those wishing for readers.
J_B.

i can practically guarentee that the work that i do will only be of interest to people in the field who will read the specialised journals..... when you get to such a specialist level, the number of people who can use it drops drammatically!! it's sad but true!

cupid_s

misskool wrote:

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And can I just say, it took me one year to calibrate and prepare an assay because no one has ever done it and it will now consist of TWO lines in my thesis or half a sentence in a paper.

this is exactly the same as me (only mine only took about 7 months)
and then i got asked why i hadn't done much work in that time! i was a bit annoyed actually

Joe_Bloggs

Search engines may well prioritise the relevance of your research findings in a femtosecond. I am sure the rights to obscure journals can be bought by the corporations that deal with the order of information and its dissemination.
Are there any engineers still out their ?

crazyscientist

As someone has already said, the levels of detail that go into a thesis are generally much deeper in a thesis than a paper. A big problem with publishing detailed PhD methods / data on the web etc is that it then becomes public knowledge.

It completely depends on the point of your research i suppose - do you want to find something new, just for the sake or it? In which case then yes, tell the world.

Or do you want to find something new which may eventually 'make a difference' in this world by helping develop new drugs etc. If thats the case, then publishing methods, structure, data and other thesis stuff on the web will guarantee that no pharma company will touch you with a bargepole - therefore no money to invest in further development, clinical trials etc and your life-saving drug never leaves your bench.

Depressing but true.

ffeindadifyr

I got told off by my commercialisation dept. for publishing a paper before seeing whether I could patent some of my research!!!

I'm not in it for the riches (- yeah right!)

DrFluffy

CrazyChemist wrote:

I didn't realise that Medics did such detailed Molecular Biology. Surely your course is supposed to be skewed towards the clinical side of things, not research, especially if you're a first year undergrad??

They don't - I already have a molecular biology doctorate...

I'm reading for my medicine degree, largely out of huge interest in translational research (from bench to bed)...

DrFluffy

cupid_stunt wrote:

I am at the end of my second year. I have everything planned virtually to the end of my PhD and know what experiments I'm going to do. However there is no real way that I can make my work stretch to any more than one paper!
This is really worrying me. Especially with DrFluffy's comment.
Any advice for me?
I am contributing to another paper and when a different set of experiments works they'll go towards another. But 3 papers is not very much

That was probably a bit doom and gloom on my part. At the time of submitting my thesis and applying for post docs, I was 2nd author on a few good papers (we were not a lab big on multi-named authorship - was all kept more or less within the group). The amount of times I got told to 'come back when I had some first author papers', or 'it was between you and X, and X had first author papers' was demoralising. I wrote most of my first author papers after my viva...

misskool wrote:

And can I just say, it took me one year to calibrate and prepare an assay because no one has ever done it and it will now consist of TWO lines in my thesis or half a sentence in a paper.

I know your pain, I did something similar, took up !!!!!! all thesis space, but I did get some good papers out of it...

crazyscientist

ffeindadifyr wrote:

I got told off by my commercialisation dept. for publishing a paper before seeing whether I could patent some of my research!!!

I'm not in it for the riches (- yeah right!)

A career in patent law.. some good money there!

ffeindadifyr

I know!!! I've been looking into it butlike Dr Fluffy I'm into collecting bits of paper!

misskool

good morning one and all, how's everyone this fine day? :rolleyes: