摘要 : Hey there! Gorgeous day, here. Warm, sunny, not too hot, and while I have a lot of work to do, I would much rather talk to you. ‘Tea’, anyone?If you are just joining us, we have been talking about the Great Resignation, especially... 展开 Hey there! Gorgeous day, here. Warm, sunny, not too hot, and while I have a lot of work to do, I would much rather talk to you. ‘Tea’, anyone?If you are just joining us, we have been talking about the Great Resignation, especially as it applies to graduate students completing their degrees who have chosen not to continue on the rocky road to independent, academic research. By ‘academic’, I am not restricting myself to work done in universities; any research is academic if it is done in the spirit of self-motivated exploration - what we might call ‘independent research’. This could be done in universities, of course, but also in stand-alone institutes, hospitals or, if you are especially wealthy, in the basement of your castle (once upon a time, work in such a castle gave us the basics of oxidative phosphorylation and electron transport). Often, but not always, such academic research involves training the ‘next generation’ of scientists, and therein lies our dilemma. If many (or most) such trainees choose not to continue beyond a degree, a lot of academic science slows or maybe even stops. 收起