Thursday, February 12, 2009
Scientific Evolution
I was thinking about all the hype at the moment about 200 years of Darwin and started to get a bit irritated. For me science is all about the NEW and EXCITING! I love being a scientist as I get to do and see things no one has ever seen before and it gives me a real buzz. I love going to conferences, even when they are in wet, unglamorous holiday villages in run down ex-industrial towns (somehow I have totally missed out going to conferences anywhere hot and sunny and sophisticated). I love hearing what cool new experiments people have designed, I love hearing how the field is evolving and developing.
For me science is dynamic and ever changing and the emphasis on 200 years of Darwin or 50 years of Einstein or other narrow people focused things seem very un-science to me. It's more of a personality cult and opinion rather than facts and new theories and current ideas and generally regressive rather than progressive. Obviously the whole scientific field based on evolution is still current and progressive and hopefully getting some positive exposure reflected from the current Darwin based celebrations but everything in the general media seems to be looking back rather than seeing forward or worse it's mired in the whole evolution/intelligent design 'debate'.
For me science is dynamic and ever changing and the emphasis on 200 years of Darwin or 50 years of Einstein or other narrow people focused things seem very un-science to me. It's more of a personality cult and opinion rather than facts and new theories and current ideas and generally regressive rather than progressive. Obviously the whole scientific field based on evolution is still current and progressive and hopefully getting some positive exposure reflected from the current Darwin based celebrations but everything in the general media seems to be looking back rather than seeing forward or worse it's mired in the whole evolution/intelligent design 'debate'.
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Earning your keep
I'm really irritated with my old phd supervisor and his student/post doc. I have been nagging this student, Gamesboy, to get his thesis organised and planned pretty much since he started (in totally his best interests as I knew how crap our supervisor is when it comes to actually getting a thesis written and submitted). Anyhow he is now into his 4th unpaid writing up year of his PhD. Which isn't so bad except he has written hardly anything. A decent stab at some of the general introduction topics and one decent method development/characterisation chapter but there is still lots and lots to write up (and in my eyes quite a few actual proper experiments to do to prove it's a sensible method).
Anyhow what is really bugging me is that the start of the year he started on a post doc contract following on closely to his PhD project (basically more characterisation and applications of the method he has developed and pimped up beyond belief during his PhD). I'm really chuffed for him that he got the post doc and continue with this new method except that he is doing bugger all work as far as I can tell. I know it's nothing to do with me but I think back to when I was still finishing off writing up my thesis and working as a post doc I worked really hard at the day job and did the thesis in the evenings/weekends/spare time to get it done as I felt bad not doing what I was being paid for i.e. the post doctoral work.
Anyhow what is really bugging me is that the start of the year he started on a post doc contract following on closely to his PhD project (basically more characterisation and applications of the method he has developed and pimped up beyond belief during his PhD). I'm really chuffed for him that he got the post doc and continue with this new method except that he is doing bugger all work as far as I can tell. I know it's nothing to do with me but I think back to when I was still finishing off writing up my thesis and working as a post doc I worked really hard at the day job and did the thesis in the evenings/weekends/spare time to get it done as I felt bad not doing what I was being paid for i.e. the post doctoral work.
Monday, February 02, 2009
two-for-one papers
Is it me or are more and more papers shoving all the important 'beef' of the paper into supporting information. Maybe it's just random that the few papers I've noticed and got round to reading in detail all have heaps and heaps of supporting data. I can understand sticking in videos or large images which don't go into regular print papers but the supporting information I've been reading have been as long as the original paper and covered all sorts of (to me at least) important methods and analysis details. I guess it's good that the detail is provided with the paper but it seems to make the original, actual paper a bit thin and annoying, especially when you keep referring between two bits of paper to try and get an overall view of the authors aims and conclusions.
The other thing which gets me is that the supporting information seems to be a lot of methods and characterisation and as someone who's research is primarily method development/improvement it's really irritating. For me I always like to read through method details carefully as my pet hate is seeing a really interesting result in a paper and then realising that the methods are a bit duff. I used to be the sort of person who always skimmed over the methods in a paper but given my current research it's probably the bit I read in most detail and sends me screwy when I see stupid analysis (my pet hate is Lineweaver-Burk plots in enzyme kinetics - how are they still allowed these days!) and poor experimental design or lack of demonstrable controls.
The other thing which gets me is that the supporting information seems to be a lot of methods and characterisation and as someone who's research is primarily method development/improvement it's really irritating. For me I always like to read through method details carefully as my pet hate is seeing a really interesting result in a paper and then realising that the methods are a bit duff. I used to be the sort of person who always skimmed over the methods in a paper but given my current research it's probably the bit I read in most detail and sends me screwy when I see stupid analysis (my pet hate is Lineweaver-Burk plots in enzyme kinetics - how are they still allowed these days!) and poor experimental design or lack of demonstrable controls.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Dry
My absolute worst irritant in the lab is stuff running out just as I want to use it. If I am doing stuff on my bench using stuff that only I use, this is never a problem as I'm a bit of a horder and always have plenty of buffer, reagents and stuff which I keep an eye on. This works fine in 2 of the labs I'm in as either everyone shares the chore of making up communal buffers and reagents or we all have our own unique reagents we use and aren't used by anyone else.
Today I was doing the lab thing and just getting ready to set up another experiment and cleaning my equipment when the freaking water ran out! Water is about the most fundamental reagent there is, no water = no experiments. Turns out that a nearby water system is broken so everyone has been taking water from my lab. Unfortunately the automatic refill is a bit iffy and I usually check it once a week or so which is fine. Except vast amounts of water have been taken from the system and the tank is dry and it's going to take ages to refill. Fortunately I scrounged enough water for the rest of the afternoon but this sort of thing does my head in. The main fault lies with the SO in the broken lab as he never maintains the system properly and didn't bother fixing it when it was first broken (way before christmas). Gah.
Today I was doing the lab thing and just getting ready to set up another experiment and cleaning my equipment when the freaking water ran out! Water is about the most fundamental reagent there is, no water = no experiments. Turns out that a nearby water system is broken so everyone has been taking water from my lab. Unfortunately the automatic refill is a bit iffy and I usually check it once a week or so which is fine. Except vast amounts of water have been taken from the system and the tank is dry and it's going to take ages to refill. Fortunately I scrounged enough water for the rest of the afternoon but this sort of thing does my head in. The main fault lies with the SO in the broken lab as he never maintains the system properly and didn't bother fixing it when it was first broken (way before christmas). Gah.
Monday, January 12, 2009
New Old Office
We've moved back from our temporary office into the old office which is all new and shiny and refurbished and I am so pleased with the way it is. I still have a massive desk, but this time it's level and the drawers all keep themselves closed even when unlocked. We also have coathooks so I can wear my nice long winter coat to work and not worry about getting it trashed under the wheels of my desk chair when I move about (previously the only place to put a coat was on the back of a chair). Other exciting and useful developments involve shelving (previously there was very limited shelving that was either all way to high up on the walls or in a corner above someones desk and head so not easy to acess). There are less people in the office which makes it feel a bit more relaxed and quieter and will be perfect if Billy Talentless moves out (technically this is a post doc office and he is not a post doc anymore). Another big deal is the lighting, I can't work out whether it's just the new lighter carpet and repainted walls or that I'm just sitting under a fluorescent strip but it's a whole load brighter in here. There's still film on the windows filtering out sunlight and making it look like the apocalypse is imminent every sunset but it's way better than before and should help with battling SAD over the next few months.
Best of all is that the new desks are layed out differently so that it's more friendly, previously everyone had their backs to each other and the door facing walls but now there are more window seats and less back to backs and my desk is a prime spot by a window, away from Billy and facing the door so I don't get suprised when my boss comes to see me and I'm procrastinating way on the internet.
Best of all is that the new desks are layed out differently so that it's more friendly, previously everyone had their backs to each other and the door facing walls but now there are more window seats and less back to backs and my desk is a prime spot by a window, away from Billy and facing the door so I don't get suprised when my boss comes to see me and I'm procrastinating way on the internet.
stocks
Gah, what's the point in employing a general dogsbody (a.k.a. scientific officer) if they can't even keep general supplies of gloves topped up. Billy Talentless (he was previously a PhD student and 2 post docs in the same lab group and did naff all research and totally got carried by other talented PhD students working on the same project as him) has finally wangled himself a permanent contract as a SO in the group. His role, as far as I understand it, is to liase with estates for lab/office refurbishments, keep an eye on the general group labs and keep communal stocks (gloves, tips, water, gases) topped up. It's really not a hard job to check the shelves once a week and see what's running low and order in new supplies but stuff is always running out. It wouldn't bug me so much but stuff is always run out when I need to do an experiment and it's not my job to be chasing up people for something as simple as a box of small gloves. I hate him!
Friday, January 09, 2009
winding down friday
Nearly at the end of the first full week back at work for 2009. It's been hard work, I think I'm still quite weak from the flu I had over Christmas, I've still got a bit of a cough and sniffles and I feel tired quite easily (although this may also be related to my resolution to take the stairs instead of the lift more often). I am finding it hard to summon up motivation to do much but loaf about really. Still at least I've managed to prep loads of stuff and should be good to go straight off with a load of experiments next week.
Thursday, January 08, 2009
New Year Old Habits
So far 2009 has not got off to the best of starts work wise, it's freezing outside, I'm stuck in a temporary office and it's generally dark, gloomy and moopy weather. And then everything is made the more sluggish by the fact my boss is away all this week and I was off sick the week before the christmas break so it has been ages since I actually did any work. I think I might skive off early today and go for a bit of a pootle about outside this afternoon to try and boost my vitamin D levels and see if the pitiful amount of sunlight available perks me up, I need to get back to going to the gym regularly as well but I am just totally lacking in motivation.
Oh well, I guess that's enough whinging, now time to procrastinate some more and track down some reagents I need for some important experiments.
Oh well, I guess that's enough whinging, now time to procrastinate some more and track down some reagents I need for some important experiments.
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
new year new blog?
I doubt it, but I figure this is a good time to put something new on here. This is all going to be a year of change for me. My contract is up in a few months and I still don't know what I want to do with my life. As this post doc has gone on I have enjoyed it more and more and I've got to the point where I feel like I've got to grips with everything involved in it and can make interesting and new experiments and results to add to the field. I would like to do another post doc in the biology side of things but I'm not really a biologist anymore (I certainly don't feel like I have an up to date set of skills and knowledge for general biological techniques) even though I know and understand the literature and background. Another problem with going on to another post doc is that I would have to move to a specific city where Himself has recently got a fixed term academic contract. I could do the long distance thing but I don't think I love science that much to do it.
The other obvious career option is industry but that would be more in the physics/chemistry area which I just don't feel confident in even though on paper I have the right skills and background.
Then again there is always the third way which would be to persue some sort of non lab based new career but that still seems weird to me.
And if that isn't enough to worry about I turn 30 just before I lose this current job! And then there is the global recession and general media misery. Maybe I should cut my losses and go off and have babies which is what most of my friends suddenly seem to have done!
The other obvious career option is industry but that would be more in the physics/chemistry area which I just don't feel confident in even though on paper I have the right skills and background.
Then again there is always the third way which would be to persue some sort of non lab based new career but that still seems weird to me.
And if that isn't enough to worry about I turn 30 just before I lose this current job! And then there is the global recession and general media misery. Maybe I should cut my losses and go off and have babies which is what most of my friends suddenly seem to have done!
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Stressed Sophs
My enthusiasm for teaching was a bit premature as I found out last week that unlike postgraduate students, I don't get paid any extra for demonstrating in labs. This whole getting post docs to demonstrate/teach in the department has kicked off big style. I had a long chat with the secretary who dished out all the teaching amongst the postgrads and post docs and she was explaining how the allocation system had totally gone wrong and everything was a last minute nightmare. I pointed out that it's totally inappropriate for a post doc to be taking time out of research to babysit undergraduates in their practical classes, especially as neither I nor my boss get reimbursed for my time. So either I spend less time in the lab = less results = less papers = less proposals and new funding = bad news! or I do the research with the demonstrating and marking on top and take time out of my other interests, relaxation and family time which is rubbish as well.
The head of research for the school is out on the rampage about this as it all seems to have been approved without his knowledge and his research group has suffered the most and has the postdocs with the most intensive demonstrating loads. I finally decided that it was out of order how much extra work I have been asked to do, especially compared to the other students and post docs and got a bit of a rude response off the secretary. Basically as I was stupid enough to volunteer for teaching in the department I stuck with it for the rest of the year unless I can find other people in the department stupid enough to take some of it off me which will take ages and as I do very little work in my actual department it's not even like I can call in any favours so I am more than likely stuck with it.
I am so totally annoyed at the way this whole thing has been (dis)organised. There was no consultation or anything with the post docs. As far as I can tell basically the research councils have decided post docs should get more teaching experience (kind of understandable) but the department have taken this as just shove them in anywhere in a lab and do the same sort of thing as the post grads but without gettting paid! Gah, this department really drives me up the wall at times.
The head of research for the school is out on the rampage about this as it all seems to have been approved without his knowledge and his research group has suffered the most and has the postdocs with the most intensive demonstrating loads. I finally decided that it was out of order how much extra work I have been asked to do, especially compared to the other students and post docs and got a bit of a rude response off the secretary. Basically as I was stupid enough to volunteer for teaching in the department I stuck with it for the rest of the year unless I can find other people in the department stupid enough to take some of it off me which will take ages and as I do very little work in my actual department it's not even like I can call in any favours so I am more than likely stuck with it.
I am so totally annoyed at the way this whole thing has been (dis)organised. There was no consultation or anything with the post docs. As far as I can tell basically the research councils have decided post docs should get more teaching experience (kind of understandable) but the department have taken this as just shove them in anywhere in a lab and do the same sort of thing as the post grads but without gettting paid! Gah, this department really drives me up the wall at times.
Papers
I finally got around to addressing the referee comments and resubmitted my paper this afternoon. Fingers crossed they will accept our revisions and reasoning (one of the original comments wanted a whole heap of additional experiments which are not practical with my model and will take ages for no actual improvement of the paper or interpretation of the current more interesting results). Apparently there are a mad load of complicated corrections to do on my other paper but fortunately they all relate to the theory and are for the boss to deal with. Hopefully he will sort them out and get it submitted. I am really hoping that by the time I finish my contract I will have 3 first author papers and a second author paper which will be pretty good going considering everything.
Of course this all relies on me pulling my finger out. The finger was out briefly today but everything else seemed to conspire against me. It took forever (well over an hour) even to get all the apparatus put together and made me waste one of my samples, then when I was actually doing the experiment I realised that one of my stock solutions was missing and I added a much stronger stock solution than I meant to which knobbled the experiment. Then I managed to further knobble it by taking stuff apart before getting everything switched off properly. Still I aim to get in dead early tomorrow so that I can get two experiments done in the day and have some results for my meeting with my boss. There is nothing more motivating than a meeting with my boss when I still haven't got any new data!
Of course this all relies on me pulling my finger out. The finger was out briefly today but everything else seemed to conspire against me. It took forever (well over an hour) even to get all the apparatus put together and made me waste one of my samples, then when I was actually doing the experiment I realised that one of my stock solutions was missing and I added a much stronger stock solution than I meant to which knobbled the experiment. Then I managed to further knobble it by taking stuff apart before getting everything switched off properly. Still I aim to get in dead early tomorrow so that I can get two experiments done in the day and have some results for my meeting with my boss. There is nothing more motivating than a meeting with my boss when I still haven't got any new data!
Job hunting
Well it looks like my job hunting has been narrowed down a lot for me as himself has just got an academic research job in a neighbouring town. He'll be commuting for a while but it makes sense for me to look for new jobs closer to where he will be working. Had a look at the local university and there are some interesting looking research groups and some relevant labs that are probably worth contacting about positions.
Himself went across for a meeting with his new research group this morning and everything seems really positive and it's good that he's back on a career track as his current job wasn't going anywhere due to rubbish upper management bollocks and that sort of thing. Also the other good news about this job is that it will put him in good stead for other jobs around the country should we relocate again depending on whose career is going in some sort of direction somewhere.
Himself went across for a meeting with his new research group this morning and everything seems really positive and it's good that he's back on a career track as his current job wasn't going anywhere due to rubbish upper management bollocks and that sort of thing. Also the other good news about this job is that it will put him in good stead for other jobs around the country should we relocate again depending on whose career is going in some sort of direction somewhere.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Teaching - Kerching!
I got an email asking me if I would do some teaching in the new term, running workshops and tutorials, that kind of thing and that my boss had already agreed it would be a suitable thing for me to do. Anyway I said OK and filled in a crappy online form not really agreeing to do anything. I assumed from the first email I would be wanted to share my specialist knowledge and expertise for just a very limited time, I didn't think I would be suitable to do more general teaching in the department as I have absolutely no background, prior training or qualifications for the department I am currently officially part of!!!
Anyway I got an email the other day saying I was going to be spending an afternoon a week babysitting foundation course students. I suppose in one way this is a good thing as at least it's not specialist so it doesn't matter that I don't have any background in this department but at the same time it seems a bit of a waste that I will be stuck in an undergraduate lab babysitting, rather than getting on with my own research and stuff. Even though it's only three hours a week it's quite awkward to rearrange my experiments around as I don't really do any experiments in this department, so it's not like I can even pop out the lab for five minutes to check on something while I am teaching/demonstrating.
At the moment I have decided to see how it all goes but if it's eating into my research time too much I'll drop it but I'll miss the cash. I was ready to drop it before doing any teaching but then I saw the post doc pay is quite a lot more than the teaching pay for post graduates and I think the extra cash will come in useful in the spring/summer when I'm out of a job.
Anyway I got an email the other day saying I was going to be spending an afternoon a week babysitting foundation course students. I suppose in one way this is a good thing as at least it's not specialist so it doesn't matter that I don't have any background in this department but at the same time it seems a bit of a waste that I will be stuck in an undergraduate lab babysitting, rather than getting on with my own research and stuff. Even though it's only three hours a week it's quite awkward to rearrange my experiments around as I don't really do any experiments in this department, so it's not like I can even pop out the lab for five minutes to check on something while I am teaching/demonstrating.
At the moment I have decided to see how it all goes but if it's eating into my research time too much I'll drop it but I'll miss the cash. I was ready to drop it before doing any teaching but then I saw the post doc pay is quite a lot more than the teaching pay for post graduates and I think the extra cash will come in useful in the spring/summer when I'm out of a job.
Labels: lab practicals, teaching
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Interdepartmental Trekking
Today I went for quite a random wander around another department for help with a specific technique I wanted to try and was thrilled to find such useful helpful people. One of the advantages of my workplace is that it is HUGE so that there is about every technique and piece of equipment I could dream of using. Unfortunately as it is so big it's hard to keep track of what different people are doing and that people often have no idea what other people in the same department are up to. I'm really glad I went trekking off on my own to seek out other people for this method as I got some really helpful tips and information which I would never have got from reading books or journal articles and the chats with the helpful people have made me rethink some of my current ideas into some more practical experiments that are more likely to give me data. Although there is lots of stuff I could do, I'm more and more aware of how little time I have left until my contract is up so now I am definitely more interested in the less innovative and unusual stuff and more interested in stuff that is more certain to give me results to write up into a paper.
Monday, September 01, 2008
Overlooked
I think one of the things holding me back most these days is the fact I always seem to be overlooked. It's hard as I am physically all over the place doing experiments and stuff. Anyway chatting to head boss bloke over cakes the other day he suddenly twigged that I would have been the perfect person to go over and do some experiments at another facility but he obviously just forgot about me and my work and got someone else to go instead. I was checking out the new website (which is still very ugly) and noticed I wasn't listed as a post doc (or anything) which is a shame. Once I've finished sorting out my official university website I will be onto them and get my face added onto the group listings.
Bad Books
I have learnt a bit of a lesson about not being too helpful to people today. I offered to read the transfer report of the first year student in our lab while he was on holiday so he gave me a hefty introduction and methods and I went through it pretty carefully and made lots of appropriate and helpful comments. Anyhow what a waste of time that was as I didn't realise he was back from holiday and submitted the whole thing without getting any feedback from me.
He is also in my bad books at the moment as he never seems to make up any of the communal samples we use in the group. We don't have a strict rota and I generally do it fairly often as other people have asked me to clarify the procedure yet again (which I don't mind too much as if the samples aren't made correctly then I have completely useless results and will have to make up more sample myself and also explain to the boss why we are getting through such expensive material so quickly). Anyway I asked him if he had time to do it with me this afternoon but I ended up doing it myself and with one of the other students.
I in a bit of a grump today after a rubbish weekend where himself was ill and I didn't do anything productive or constructive and just got more and more irritated with my own company. Hopefully I'll get a good nights sleep tonight and be in a better mood tomorrow as I have important experiments to do. I have been attempting Important Experiment for most of the summer it seems like but not got very far due to all sorts of irritating obstacles.
Paper revisions are going quite well I think except for bloody endnote. It is a horrible programme. Once this paper is resubmitted I am definitely going to try my hand at LaTex.
He is also in my bad books at the moment as he never seems to make up any of the communal samples we use in the group. We don't have a strict rota and I generally do it fairly often as other people have asked me to clarify the procedure yet again (which I don't mind too much as if the samples aren't made correctly then I have completely useless results and will have to make up more sample myself and also explain to the boss why we are getting through such expensive material so quickly). Anyway I asked him if he had time to do it with me this afternoon but I ended up doing it myself and with one of the other students.
I in a bit of a grump today after a rubbish weekend where himself was ill and I didn't do anything productive or constructive and just got more and more irritated with my own company. Hopefully I'll get a good nights sleep tonight and be in a better mood tomorrow as I have important experiments to do. I have been attempting Important Experiment for most of the summer it seems like but not got very far due to all sorts of irritating obstacles.
Paper revisions are going quite well I think except for bloody endnote. It is a horrible programme. Once this paper is resubmitted I am definitely going to try my hand at LaTex.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Lurgy
I was brimming with enthusiasm and ideas which is quite unusual for me coming back from a break. Unfortunately I am struck by lurgy (probably due to spending the weekend standing around in cold muddy fields with millions of scummy people) so I am not getting on quite as well as I hoped.
In other news I got the comments back from the paper I submitted, my boss is a bit narked but I'm not too bothered about them, they certainly seem better than the corrections I got for my PhD thesis. It's a pain and it seems like the reviewer didn't really get the point of my work or quite understand the point of the system I have developed but it's not entirely unexpected and hopefully I will be able to get it sorted out quite quickly.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Diversity
I'm currently working on my CV and having a rethink about what I want to do when my post doc contract expires next year. I am thinking that there is still lots I want to contribute to this field of research and would really like to continue in academia a bit longer. Anyway I realised there is no one around here to speak to about moving on, applying for grants, working on CVs or similar. Everyone just seems to go from PhD onto various grants and there is no real interview or application proceedure, people just get kept on as long as there is money from somewhere for them to do something. No wonder this department is a state. It seems a bit unhealthy to have such a static workforce, with nobody with fresh ideas or perspectives coming in. Even though I did my PhD at the same university as I am currently working at, at least I have moved faculty and work with completely new people and lab groups.
Plotting Data
I spend a lot of my time extracting data from different graphs, manipulating the raw data in various ways and generally plotting and pimping graphs so that they are clear and easy to understand. Personally I prefer my data presented in as close to raw format as possible with maybe just the odd modification to correct baselines and remove noise so that the plots are simple, clear and easy to interpret. While the data can be manipulated to give a straight line I much prefer to see the data in the original plot as it's much easier to spot deviations or anything strange which might be going on. I understand that before the days of computers for everything, rearranging data to give a straight line much simplifies things, but with programmes such as SigmaPlot, OriginPro, Igor, and Prism to name but a few pretty much any data can be fitted to quite complicated equations so there is no reason to do double reciprocal plots or whatever.
When I read a current paper which determines constants using double reciprocal plots or other methods rather than fitting to the original plots I can't help but be rather sceptical. Either they really know nothing about the subject and don't realise the potential errors of analysing data this way (which doesn't instill confidence in the rest of the paper) or they know their data is a bit shonky and this is the only way to get a fit out it (which again makes me sceptical and wonder what they are not saying). I recently saw that some of my data doesn't fit to the commonly accepted model and rather than forcing my data to fit by using different plots or removing data points, I just submitted it without any fit and then commented about why it doesn't seem to fit and deviates from general accepted principles - I just hope the reviewers think like me!
When I read a current paper which determines constants using double reciprocal plots or other methods rather than fitting to the original plots I can't help but be rather sceptical. Either they really know nothing about the subject and don't realise the potential errors of analysing data this way (which doesn't instill confidence in the rest of the paper) or they know their data is a bit shonky and this is the only way to get a fit out it (which again makes me sceptical and wonder what they are not saying). I recently saw that some of my data doesn't fit to the commonly accepted model and rather than forcing my data to fit by using different plots or removing data points, I just submitted it without any fit and then commented about why it doesn't seem to fit and deviates from general accepted principles - I just hope the reviewers think like me!
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