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Beccy Owen - When Experiments Fail: Staying Positive in Research
Beccy Owen narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.
Every researcher knows the sinking feeling of an experiment failing after days, weeks or months of effort. In this blog Beccy talks about how she has learnt to stop letting failed experiments dictate her mood, and why they do not make you a bad scientist. She shares the best advice she has been given, from a lab manager who told her not to let a bad result follow her home, to knowing when to stop and re-evaluate rather than keep going down a dead end. Along the way she looks at accidental discoveries like X-rays and penicillin, the…
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