Sensible Answer:
The project at uni I am working on at the moment is one that I have designed but to get it done properly I work with other people. I have a supervisor who makes sure that I am on the right track. I also work with a team of people who do a lot of work in providing me with data. When it comes to analysing the data and writing the final report, I will be doing that alone.
When it comes to writing science news articles, I often work alone but sometimes when I get stuck, I talk things out with my editor to sort through my ideas and thoughts and sometimes coming up with something better. I like to think when I am interviewing scientists that I am working together with them in a team to tell the story of their work.
I’m with Mags on this one. I do all three. I work in three different labs at Sydney Uni, so I get to see lots of different people everyday. I’m always talking to them about experiments or just what we did on the weekend. I’m also working right now with a partner – we take turns doing lab work on the same experiment and meet regularly to talk about our results. Sometimes I also need to work by myself too, which is good too. When I’m by myself in the lab, I crank up the radio and dance a bit while I work 🙂
All of those. I spend some of my time sitting on my own reading, writing and thinking. I spend a lot of time sitting with one or two students talking about experiments. My group of students (who are doing their research directly in my lab) is about 15 people. But the open source stuff we do – getting people together on the web to solve problems – involves more people. In the project we just finished, there were about 30 people involved at various times. In the new malaria project, we will need a lot more. These are people we don’t know, but who we hope will join the project. So some number between 1 and 6 billion…
Short Answer: All of the above.
Sensible Answer:
The project at uni I am working on at the moment is one that I have designed but to get it done properly I work with other people. I have a supervisor who makes sure that I am on the right track. I also work with a team of people who do a lot of work in providing me with data. When it comes to analysing the data and writing the final report, I will be doing that alone.
When it comes to writing science news articles, I often work alone but sometimes when I get stuck, I talk things out with my editor to sort through my ideas and thoughts and sometimes coming up with something better. I like to think when I am interviewing scientists that I am working together with them in a team to tell the story of their work.
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I’m with Mags on this one. I do all three. I work in three different labs at Sydney Uni, so I get to see lots of different people everyday. I’m always talking to them about experiments or just what we did on the weekend. I’m also working right now with a partner – we take turns doing lab work on the same experiment and meet regularly to talk about our results. Sometimes I also need to work by myself too, which is good too. When I’m by myself in the lab, I crank up the radio and dance a bit while I work 🙂
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All of those. I spend some of my time sitting on my own reading, writing and thinking. I spend a lot of time sitting with one or two students talking about experiments. My group of students (who are doing their research directly in my lab) is about 15 people. But the open source stuff we do – getting people together on the web to solve problems – involves more people. In the project we just finished, there were about 30 people involved at various times. In the new malaria project, we will need a lot more. These are people we don’t know, but who we hope will join the project. So some number between 1 and 6 billion…
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