As I’ve mentioned in previous articles, my introduction to crypto actually came via my day job as a life sciences researcher. One thing all bio-scientists spend huge amounts of time doing is maintaining and updating the metadata of microscopy images. (Not that publishers or institutions ever spend time double-checking that this info actually corresponds to the pretty picture of a cell). At the time, I had just lost my job and was scrambling to make ends meet. Things were bleak. I was honestly...

As I’ve mentioned in previous articles, my introduction to crypto actually came via my day job as a life sciences researcher. One thing all bio-scientists spend huge amounts of time doing is maintaining and updating the metadata of microscopy images. (Not that publishers or institutions ever spend time double-checking that this info actually corresponds to the pretty picture of a cell). At the time, I had just lost my job and was scrambling to make ends meet. Things were bleak. I was honestly...

After a long day in the lab frustrated, after following a highly cited methodology for the 6th time and not being able to characterise my cells. I spoke to all the smartest colleagues I knew and to my dismay everyone agreed that using published research methods in the lab never/rarely works. I was shell shocked; all the money, all the time, all the psychiatric break downs academics go through when they can not replicate a study and assuming it’s because they are useless. I headed to the inter...

After a long day in the lab frustrated, after following a highly cited methodology for the 6th time and not being able to characterise my cells. I spoke to all the smartest colleagues I knew and to my dismay everyone agreed that using published research methods in the lab never/rarely works. I was shell shocked; all the money, all the time, all the psychiatric break downs academics go through when they can not replicate a study and assuming it’s because they are useless. I headed to the inter...