• Question: What is your biggest pet peeve within the scientific community?

    Asked by anon-233435 to Varun, Sammie, Rebecca, Anna, Alin, Adam on 11 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Rebecca Shaw

      Rebecca Shaw answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      I’m not sure if this is true of all institutions, but I wish scientists would be more willing to collaborate or willing to make ties with others of different disciplines. I believe that is one way which we can progress in research projects!

    • Photo: Varun Ramaswamy

      Varun Ramaswamy answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      Public biophysics databases contain the information on all the discoveries made by biophysicists from around the world. For instance, the Protein Data Bank (PDB) is a treasure chest that contains the shapes of different proteins, that was found by different scientists. Sadly, almost half of those shapes of proteins are wrong. The scientists put them up just so they can show off about having an entry in the PDB, without bothering to check his/her research closely for errors.

      This is very bad because several young biophysicists try to learn from those structures and they don’t know that they are learning the wrong thing.

    • Photo: Samantha Firth

      Samantha Firth answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      Some scientists don’t want to spend any time telling people about why their research is important or why people should care about science! I think if we don’t take the time to tell people why science is great and why research is important, less people will want to go into science and less people will want to fund it too!

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