Silver linings - a brief post about our team of researchers
While I've openly shared troubles with obtaining funding for the lab on academic social media, I remain optimistic that one of the two grants that are currently under consideration will get funded. We will also apply for more this year. While I see many posts on Twitter about how frustrating the grant writing experience is, I actually enjoy writing grants for the sole purpose of refining my ideas and making them more concrete. So I don't mind continuing to apply until we find some success. This post however is about something different. In the three years of our existence, students have gone in and out of the lab. In the initial few years, I accepted applications very liberally thinking that it was my duty to help whoever came to me but it turned out to be a very counterproductive exercise. I ended up spending tens and hundreds of hours trying to motivate a few students who inherently had very different goals from what they told me in our initial meetings. Even more pro...