蒲慕明致全体所员的一封信－－－－看看别人怎么作科研

To all lab members:

 Over the past several months, it has become clear to me that if there is no drastic change in the lab, Poo lab will soon cease to be a productive, first-rate lab that you chose to join in the first place. Lab progress reports over the past six months have clearly shown the lack of progress in most projects. One year ago, when we first moved to ffice:smarttags" />Berkeley, I expressed clearly to everyone my expectation from each one in the lab. The most important thing is what I consider to be sufficient amount of time and effort in the lab work.. I mentioned hat about 60 hr working time per week if what I consider the minimal time an average successful young scientist in these days has to put into the lab work. There may be a few rare lucky fellows like Florian, who had two Nature papers in his sleeve already, can enjoy life for a while and still get a jot offer from Harvard. No one else in the lab has Florian’s luxury to play around.

Thus I am imposing strict rules in the lab from now on:

1.       Every one works at least 50 hr a week in the lab (e.g., 8+ hr a day, six days a week), this is by far lower than what I am doing every day and throughout most of my career. You may be smarter or do not want to be as successful, but I am not asking you be match my time in the lab.

2.       By working, I mean real bench work. This does not include surfing on the computer and sending and receiving e-mails for non-scientific matters unrelated to your work (you can do this after work in the lab or at home), and excessive chatting on nonscientific matters. No long lunch break except special occasions. I suggest that everyone puts in at least 6hr concentrated bench work and 2+ hr reading and other research-related activity each day. Reading papers and books should be done mostly after work. More time can be spent on reading, literature search and writing during working hours when you are ready for writing a paper.

3.       I must be informed in person by e-mail (even in my absence from the lab) when you are absent from the lab for a whole day or more. Inform me early your vocation plan. Taking more than 20 working reporting any vacation and sick leave on your time sheet (against the university rule, although I have been signing the sheets), but you know roughly how many days you were not here.

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On the whole, I understand and accept the fact that you may not fulfill the above requirements all the time, due to health reasons, occasional personal business. But if you do now like to follow the rules because it is simply a matter choice of life style. I respect your choice but suggest you start making plans immediately and leave the lab by the end of January 31. I will do my best to help you to locate a lab to transfer or to find a job.

 

If you do accept the conditions I describe above, I am happy to continue to provide my best support to your work, hopefully more than I have done in the past. I will review the progress of everyone in the lab by the end of June of 2002. I expect everyone to have made sufficient progress in the research so that a good paper is in sight (at least to the level of J. Neuroscience). If you cannot meet this goal at that time, I will have to ask you to prepare to leave my lab by the end to August.

 

Mu-ming   

神经所是我饿每年应该学习的， 那里的氛围才是真正科学的氛围， 没有急功近利 赞啊

这是过去时，05年的讲话更精彩

呵呵，这样能出大科学家吗？努力当然很重要，但把一些次要东西当作指标，只能让我看轻其管理能力。

 

好象是2002年的信吧,这几年神经所文章是否与这有关?哈哈

 

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原文由 wuhumb 发表于 2005-12-30 11:03:42 :

好象是2002年的信吧,这几年神经所文章是否与这有关?哈哈 

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This letter was for his lab in Berkeley, USA, not for 神经所.

［此帖子已被 thinker_jeff 在 2005-12-31 1:16:44 编辑过］

向科学工作者致敬

我们还是很有差距的啊~~~

神经所的模式什么时候才能到高校啊？高校才是科学精神的花圃啊！！

感慨！

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