My father is always watching the French news (tv5 monde) and telling me to move to EU since they are snapping up as many scientists as they can. What he doesn’t understand is they are snapping up PIs who already have made a career. They don’t give a shit about some postdoc/RA/specialist. EU has plenty of bright young people for those roles, and as you said they don’t have the money to fund an army of professional lab rats. I would love to live abroad, seems like a great opportunity, but realistically I have no idea why they’d bother to interview someone who lives in another continent with generic science skills.
You’ve explained my feelings about llms perfectly. I have a lot of coworkers that use it constantly all day for work and are confused that I don’t. TBH I can see that it is saving them time on a lot of tasks, but I like that part of my job. It can’t do all the bad parts of our job (lab work) just the rewarding parts (reading, writing, statistics, figure design, coding).
I am big into old obscure media, love ubuweb, but I would still hesitate to join a kind of unknown person for an activity like that. It’s just a big plunge.
I recently had to do linear algebra for the first time ever irl. I’ve been out of school for ~15 years. I was trying to make a rotation matrix to transform some points in 2D space. It took me a very long time to remember how it’s performed yet alone “transformation matrix” which is something I’d never heard of before. I got my code all working and was so proud, then later found that one of the r packages I was using could have just solved it all automatically :/
My father is always watching the French news (tv5 monde) and telling me to move to EU since they are snapping up as many scientists as they can. What he doesn’t understand is they are snapping up PIs who already have made a career. They don’t give a shit about some postdoc/RA/specialist. EU has plenty of bright young people for those roles, and as you said they don’t have the money to fund an army of professional lab rats. I would love to live abroad, seems like a great opportunity, but realistically I have no idea why they’d bother to interview someone who lives in another continent with generic science skills.