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Asked by anon-312833 on 10 Mar 2022. This question was also asked by anon-316151, anon-318224, anon-318524, anon-321064, anon-321072, anon-318199, anon-318210, anon-318208, anon-314272, anon-315228.
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Richa Sharma answered on 10 Mar 2022:
The favourite part is to be able to experience the joy of new discoveries everyday. A scientist does not need to discover great things, but the tiny successes make it worthwhile, even if you find something different than what you were looking for. For me, getting to identify a new compound, finding a new way of doing a thing, discovering colourful strange objects, peeking into a microscope and see bugs swimming – all make up the day’s work. And of course, the joy of watching other scientists work.
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Stephen Doughty answered on 14 Mar 2022:
Finding out new things and having a “Eureka” moment – not usually on a massive scale, but just something interesting happens with the experiment that you’re doing and it makes you go “ooohh” and start thinking about what might be happening. It’s a fun experience.
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Amit Vernekar answered on 15 Mar 2022:
The joy that I get when I, along with my students, investigate new experiments and draw conclusions on them.
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Alice Newman answered on 15 Mar 2022:
The fact that no two days are the same!
When I worked in the lab I loved doing the practical work and seeing the results to report back to our clients. Analytical Science is a much lesser known part of the indsutry for young people, but its probably one of the most important parts – making sure things are what they say they are!
No I enjoy going to careers fairs, talking to students and hopefully inspiring new scientists 🙂
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Veselina Georgieva answered on 15 Mar 2022:
My favourite part of the research has always been in design. The hypothesizing, brainstorming, literature review, balancing depth and breadth, pushing boundaries, and hopefully ~innovation~ are the heart of research, in my opinion. While the process and analysis are also powerful and valuable, I believe that the design is the most critical (and potentially most damaging) part of the project. If you miss something or make incorrect assumptions during the design process, nothing that comes from the rest of the project will have much value.
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Ian McKinley answered on 17 Mar 2022:
Contributing to solving a real problem. Most of my work involves studying disposal systems that will be operational only decades in the future. After the accident at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan, however, I was part of an international team that worked to plan and test clean up operations. These have gone well and many of those evacuated have already returned home. Any time I visit the area and see how well it is recovering, I feel very proud to have helped – even if only in a small way.
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Graeme Barker answered on 18 Mar 2022:
I really like writing up my research group’s results for publication in scientific journals. I don’t get to do much in the lab myself these days, so it’s great to look back over all the fantastic work that’s been done by my students and research assistants.
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Jasmine Almond answered on 31 Mar 2022:
My favorite part is problem solving and working out the reason why something happens.
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Lucy commented on :
I love this question! In my job I get to interview scientists and its one of my favourite things to ask other scientists too – so great job ✨💁♀️
THIS! This is my favourite thing about science because I love talking to people about science, especially those who are interested and might not otherwise have somewhere to learn about it from.Its called science communication.
Im a chatter box, so to answer your question, speaking with you all is my favourite thing.