Gen X will never live up to its scientific potential

[alfred russel]

The only way to win is not to play. 

Certainly not if you keep getting dealt a 2 - 7  offsuit. Which does feel like the hand you are dealt in most discussions with grumbler.

[MadBurgerMaker]

I got more than the one response, and this is the first bait I've used in over a year. 

just stop

[Syt]

The Loser Generation is full of losers.  Shock.  Horror.  etc.  Film at 11.

I'd, like, write a scathing rebuttal, but I, you know, don't feel like it right now, dude.

[MadBurgerMaker]

I'd, like, write a scathing rebuttal, but I, you know, don't feel like it right now, dude.

This is something remarkably similar to something the students walking around here would say.  Except it needs to end with a question mark.

[DGuller]

Trolls are like jokes.  If no one realizes you're doing it until you claim to be doing it, then you're either backtracking or doing it badly.

[viper37]

I'm Gen X and I'm bloody useless.

You're not totally useless.  You have cool avatars.

[grumbler]

I got more than the one response, and this is the first bait I've used in over a year. 

just stop

No.* 

*Your over-reaction is even better than the original guys' ones.

[grumbler]

The Loser Generation is full of losers.  Shock.  Horror.  etc.  Film at 11.

I'd, like, write a scathing rebuttal, but I, you know, don't feel like it right now, dude.

  That's how to play the game.

[Razgovory]

There are a lot of acronyms in that article.

[MadBurgerMaker]

No.* 

*Your over-reaction is even better than the original guys' ones.

just stop

[Razgovory]

The sad thing about a clown is he never knows if a someone is laughing with him or at him.

[grumbler]

just stop

No.

[The Larch]

There are a lot of acronyms in that article.

That is typical from articles directed at a very specific audience of insiders. Obviously Tim thinks that a sizeable part of this board is well versed in the vernacular of the American research community, and knows the acronyms of their funding programs, research contracts and involved institutions by heart.

I mean, this paragraph alone needs a glossary.

It ignores another trend from the NIH, i.e. working busily to shore up the ability of the oldest guard of scientists to remain funded. You know about the Emeritus award they are considering. You have observed how well the very oldest slice of our PI applicant pool is treated at study section. And you have seen how NIGMS, the IC most serious about this workforce stability stuff*, put the oldsters at the front of the line with their MIRA initiative. Of course, the second in line (and in fact the only ones in line) for this little MIRA project are, you guessed it, ESIs.

[grumbler]

That is typical from articles directed at a very specific audience of insiders. Obviously Tim thinks that a sizeable part of this board is well versed in the vernacular of the American research community, and knows the acronyms of their funding programs, research contracts and involved institutions by heart.

You do get the strong vibe that Timmay just read the title and then copy-pasted it here.  That's why I was mocking this; it is so absurd, such a set of special pleadings that fly in the face of what we know about how scientific research takes place, that it deserved only scorn.  The entire evidence that "Gen X will never live up to its scientific potential" is a coupla butthurt government researchers.  Not a crisis.

[jimmy olsen]

That is typical from articles directed at a very specific audience of insiders. Obviously Tim thinks that a sizeable part of this board is well versed in the vernacular of the American research community, and knows the acronyms of their funding programs, research contracts and involved institutions by heart.

You do get the strong vibe that Timmay just read the title and then copy-pasted it here.  That's why I was mocking this; it is so absurd, such a set of special pleadings that fly in the face of what we know about how scientific research takes place, that it deserved only scorn.  The entire evidence that "Gen X will never live up to its scientific potential" is a coupla butthurt government researchers.  Not a crisis.

I read the whole thing. I read a lot of blogs that get technical.