{"id":525,"date":"2006-08-23T09:21:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T09:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/23\/taxonomy-of-researchers\/"},"modified":"2006-08-23T09:21:39","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T09:21:39","slug":"taxonomy-of-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/23\/taxonomy-of-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxonomy of Researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcanegazebo.net\/2006\/08\/types_of_laboratory_scientists.html\">Arcane Gazebo<\/a> (who adds a category), an entertainingly snarky <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenakedscientists.com\/HTML\/Columnists\/maryoneillcolumn2.htm\">taxonomy of lab scientists<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong> Weird and Whacky<\/strong><br \/>\nConsider the &#8220;mad scientist&#8221; of popular fiction, someone so obsessed with their subject that they forget to dress and show up to the lab in their pyjamas. Without wishing to indulge in stereotypes there are scientists who are highly creative and imaginative, it&#8217;s just that you do wonder when the Mother Ship is going to come and collect them. On a good day they are self sufficient, enjoy thinking laterally and are great at finding ingenious ways of tackling a difficult piece of research. On a bad day they are withdrawn, uncommunicative and wearing their corduroy bellbottoms for the 400th consecutive day. They hate small talk and that includes a cheery &#8220;Good Morning&#8221; so they normally end up working the grave yard shift simply to avoid people. It is quite common for their group leaders to think these scientists have left and gone to work elsewhere.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s more aimed at the bio-types (frequent references to messy chemicals), but you can fit most physics students and post-docs into the major categories as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Arcane Gazebo (who adds a category), an entertainingly snarky taxonomy of lab scientists: Weird and Whacky Consider the &#8220;mad scientist&#8221; of popular fiction, someone so obsessed with their subject that they forget to dress and show up to the lab in their pyjamas. Without wishing to indulge in stereotypes there are scientists who are&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/23\/taxonomy-of-researchers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taxonomy of Researchers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-science","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}