what do other scientists think about your work?

Question: what do other scientists think about your work?

Asked by mehrnoosh to Claire, Greg, Jane, Jo, Nuruz, Vicki on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: Scientist.
- Claire O'Donnell answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  Oops! pressed submit by accident!! Here’s the end of the answer – Lots of scientists say they’d like my job because there’s all teh good bits of analysis and finding stuff out but none of the down sides of experiments that don’t work.
- Greg FitzHarris answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  Hi there,
  
  Good question, because somethimes scientists do disaggree with each others experiments and conclusions.
  
  Am happy to say that ive not really had another scientist disagree with my work, yet. Actually, we had a recent piece of work which we published in a journal (like a very specific magazine about biology)…. and then someone else in Germany published very similar experiments at the same time without us knowing… and their results and conclusions were basically similar to ours….
  
  So… so far so good….
  
  important to note that having other sciebntists disaggree with you doesnt necessarily mean you’re wrong, though (remember — we used to think the world was flat… and christopher colombus was thought of as being a bit mad)
- Vicki Onions answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  Hi there
  The times when you present your work at conferences is generally the time you get to know what other scientists think of your work – whether they think your work is sound and whether they think it is interesting
  I have been very fortunate in that usually other scientists think my work is well carried out and well planned – this is because i work with very experienced scientists who advise me – i can’t take the credit for that! Other people also usually tend to find my work quite interesting as it is actually a very new technique and quite an exciting field to be in. A lot of the other work in my area tends to be very very finely focussed on how specific aspects of the ovary work and so when i come along looking at the whole ovary and basically just trying to pop it in the deep freeze and see if anything works, its quite different from a lot of the other talks that are presented at conferences!! So i’m lucky in that respect
- Jane Cleal answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  Other scientists generally like my work and it generates lots of discussion when I present it at meetings. I have also won several wards for my work, so some scientists must like it!
- Jo Broadbent answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  oooo – what a good question!
  
  I’ve had some research papers published in scientific journals. Other scientists review science papers sent to journals and if they are good enough, they get published. So some other scientists have thought my work was good.
  
  But scientists like a good debate about the interpretation of results, so if someone disagrees with you they don’t necessarily think your work is rubbish!
  
  Jo

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