Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Why neurobiologists are cooler than other scientists?

why neurobiologists are cooler than other scientists?
They love to teach their science, to be involve in social events and they are always there when a help sing is posted. Also, they like to outreach and organize brainy events. Who am I talking about? yes, of course: researches in the neuroscience field. They are the coolest, from the nerdy side to the happy social life.
But the question is why?
Only the genetically awesome curious minds choose the neuro research?
or how a science college student change in order to become a neuro scientist?
They organized the brain week, with an amazing turn out, have you hear about genomicweek? or immunoweek? NOP. Therefore, you will expect that they were more neuro scientists walking on the earth than any other scientist. In fact it is not a "numbers game" : the search in pubmed for the word neurology gives 234150 hits, neurobiology 62623, microbiology 990706, molecular biology 383907, genetics 2627208, immunology 1368182 if you add oncology the number of publications gets multiply. This means that they are not publishing more or even more represented in the scientific world. Instead they scream louder, they get out attention and drag us to the "Brain world".
If you attend any executive committee you will find a majority of them, if you go to a seminar oriented to improve some skill or expertise... they will have a heavy representation, furthermore, probably they organized the event.There are exceptions, like in all the orders of life. But you must admit that you met more amazing outstanding neuro scientists than any other kind of researcher.

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