academic competition has to account for some haste in getting a paper published. But that's just like my job too. When my boss wants something ASAP I always remind him of the engineer's motto:

"Fast, Cheap, Good. Pick two".

Unfortunately "fast" is usually one of the two he picks. And unless I can talk some sense into him "cheap" is usually the other ingredient.

In Academia I think cheap is a given and until you're tenured I guess fast takes precedence over good.

How're your herp activites going this spring? We finally had some decent weather here. The frogs are calling outside my house and the garters are finally showing up.

Regards
John












>>Two steps forward and one step back seems to be a good analogy.....the day I get a time-machine, I'll know for sure I'm sure the interpretation of molecular data will become more of a true science in time, but for now, it seems that a lot of the data can be used any way you wish......without complete data......chimerism.
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>>I suppose it's easy to make fun of researchers who throw natural history to the side, when it isn't agreeable with a molecular barcode, but hey, something has to be published, in a timely manner, otherwise the cv would suffer........shrug
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